Program “Women’s Fates”

17 and 18 Dec 2011, 7 pm
Goethe

From Goethe Institut:

On Saturday the 17th of December, 2011 at 7pm the Goethe-Institut Vietnam presents two interesting works about “Women’s fates” in collaboration with the Vietnamese organization Csaga (Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents).As second part of the series of events on women’s fates the Goethe-Institut presents in collaboration with the Dutch Embassy the award-winning documentary “Position among the stars”.

Schedule

Women’s fates I: 17.12.2011, 7 pm
Book presentation “Left-Handed” and Film screening “Little Heart” about women trafficking in cooperation with Csaga

Women’s fates II: 18.12.2011, 7 pm
Film screening “Position among the stars”

Short stories “Left-handed”

For each human being the right to love is the most valuable one in life. However, there are many people in society who are suppressed in their rights to live their love. Homosexual love between a man and a man or between a woman and a woman is still socially discriminated. How do Lesbians live their lives and how do they deal with their inner struggles and often painful sufferings they are forced to go through in social life?

The short stories “Left-handed”, published by Csaga, give an insight in real-life stories of Lesbians today and motivate the reader to reflect.

Film Screening “The Little Heart”

Vietnam, 2008, 83 min

A place somewhere in between the massive sand dunes of Quang Binh province is home to a family as many others. Out of poverty and hopelessness the mother takes refuge in alcohol, the father often becomes violent. The oldest daughter, the 19 year old Mai, has got only one desire: to leave this life behind. She trusts the promises of a seemingly helpful, elderly woman in the village to give her work as a seamstress in Saigon. But when Mai arrives in the big city, all promises prove to be brutal deception. Will Mai succeed in freeing herself from this net of dependences and to create a better future for her and her family?

The movie “The Little Heart”, which was produced by the Vietnamese Film Cooperation, has been awarded at international and national film festivals. The film shows the complex causes by which women become kept in dependence, in a dramatically escalating story and with impressive characters (great: Hong Anh as Mai).

Languages: Vietnamese Original with English subtitles.

Film Screening “Position among the stars”

Netherlands, 2010, 150 min

As the second part of the series of events on women’s fates the Goethe-Institut presents in collaboration with the Dutch Embassy the award-winning documentary “Position among the stars”. Together with her family Tari lives in the slums of Jakarta. Her mother owns a cook shop and her father is taking care of his fighting fishes. Her grandmother has put all her hopes and savings in Tari to support her way to university. Will the girl be able to fulfill their expectations and create a better future for her family? – This film is the last part of a trilogy by the multiple awarded director Leonhard Retel Helmken about an Indonesian family fighting for their existence for more than ten years. In 2011 “Position among the stars” was awarded as the best film at the Sundance-Documentary-Festival in the USA.

Languages: Indonesian Original with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

All of events are free entrance.