23rd(2021)
Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
Asian Shorts (19) | I-Teens (4) |
New Currents (25) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
Polemics (8) | Queer Rainbow (10) |
Feminist Collective: Women¡¯s Filmmaking in Asia (12) | SWAGGIN¡¯ LIKE DOONA (7) |
The 20th Anniversary of Take Care of My Cat (1) | Australian Women¡¯s Filmmaking (12) |
Film x Gender (2) | Barrier Free Screening (1) |
Special Screening (3) |
Anastasia MIKOVA, Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND
documentary / women / voice
Arthus-Bertrand's previous film Human (2015) is a three-hour-long documentary based on interviews with over 2,000 people from 60 countries on the same 40 questions. Five years later, the director makes another documentary, Woman, after having interviews with more than 2,000 women from 50 countries. Co-director Mikova is a journalist whose work focuses on social and human rights issues, and started her film career with the large-scale project, Earth from Above (2004), directed by Arthus-Bertrand. In their new documentary, women from a young age to late adulthood talk about their lives, prejudices and contradictions they experienced, and their hopes for the future. While each interviewee talks about maternity, education, marriage, financial independence, and sexuality, the hundreds of answers are delivered to the audience and create a mental mosaic titled ¡°woman.¡± If we had seen the questions and answers in a written form, most of them would have vanished instantly. However, as we follow each woman's sentiments, we can have a better understanding. To watch this film is to participate in the continuity of time when each person answers, and to embrace the intensity that appears on women's faces, their bodies, and the society where they are in. [HWANG Miyojo]
Anastasia MIKOVA, Yann ARTHUS-BERTRANDAnastasia MIKOVA, Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND
Anastasia MIKOVA
Ukranian-born film director and journalist whose work has always focused on social and humanist topics. She worked as a journalist for documentaries dealing with issues such as illegal immigration, organ trafficking, or surrogate mothers. In 2009, she became editor-in-chief of the series of documentaries EARTH FROM ABOVE, which marked the beginning of her collaboration with Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND. Then acting as first director and co-author, she continued her collaboration with him on the documantary HUMAN.
Yann ARTHUS-BERTRAND
A French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He is the President of the GoodPlanet Foundation which he created in 2005. He became a goodwill ambassador for the United nation¡¯s environment Program in 2009. In 2015, he released the film HUMAN which premiered at the United Nations and the Venice Film Festival.