EN | The last Wednesdays of the month are a time for gathering for all cinema lovers, and as usual, the meeting will be at Maus Hábitos. 🎥
This session will be held in collaboration with Women’s Voices Now! This Wednesday, we will have the opportunity to watch two great films awarded in the last edition of the WVN Film Festival: When I Escaped and 1001Cuts. 🍿
To celebrate with us women produced cinema, will be Alexandra Velasco, filmmaker, multimedia artist and partner of WVN! 🤍


Program:

1001Cuts
Documentary | 25’ | United States | 2024
Directing: Sarah M Temkin

Synopsis
1001cuts explores the careers of the daughters of Title IX through the experiences of surgeons. Social and cultural change in the 1970s allowed for the opportunity to train and be included into this high stakes professional environment. This film documents the pervasive stereotypes and gender-based discrimination that persist within workplaces designed for, and still controlled by men. Within medicine and surgery, the failure to apply culture change has had wide-ranging impacts on the careers of women, the healthcare system, and the patient care experience.

When I Escaped
Documentary | 65’ | United Kingdom | 2023
Directing: Zlata Onufrieva

Synopsis
Vika is from a small village in Dagestan, one of Russia's predominantly Muslim republics in the North Caucasus. She was forcefully married at 17 years old to a man who was never interested either in her or a family life. After the first escape from the authoritarian family, Vika was kidnapped by her father and brought back home where she was subjected to punitive psychiatry, exorcism, and physical abuse. Despite the threats of honor killing, she makes a choice to escape again.