EVENT- First Women's Film Festival in Bishkek, Feb. 8-10, Museum of Fine Art

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EVENT- First Women's Film Festival in Bishkek, Feb. 8-10, Museum of Fine Art

Posted by: Lizzy Mayrl, Dialog Central (President) <lmayrl@yahoo.com>

Dialog Central, Association for dialogue with Central Asia through
art, science, education and social concerns

Posted by: Lizzy Mayrl www.dialogcentral.org

1st Women Film Festival
February 8-10, 2008, at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Art in Bishkek.
Opening on February the 8th at 13.00.

In the frame of Amalthea project:

Amalthea women in Central Asia is designed to be a long-term project
with its emphasis on cross-border partnerships and the cultural
cooperation of countries in Central Asia and is specifically focused
on gender theme. Project aims to strengthen the potential of women in
Central Asia bringing the gender thematic to a wide audience and to
affect through art to the awareness for the manifold aspects of the
issue. Festival will help to identify various types of paradigms and
archetypes of female identity, and further promotion of a new female
self-understanding in an open society.

Festival organizers, Dialog Central in partnership with Koldoo, Social
Unit in Bishkek, believe that visual arts are capable to impact the
perception of any problem in deeper sense, therefore they decided in
their films and photographs to reflect the most vital social problems
of Central Asia.

Documentary films show the real-life issues and female lifestyles in
both public and private spheres of women living in several social
environments. Creative experience shows the understanding of women's
role as well as the conventions, traditions and customs and
perspectives of gender specificity in the context of their social status.

For artists and filmmakers from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and
Kazakhstan, it is an opportunity to come into a direct and active
dialogue to continue further exchanges between the civil societies of
these countries.

Festival program includes:
* Documentary films including discussions with film directors from
the participating countries and experts on gender issues.
* Photo exhibition "Tortures of Beauty, Oksana Shatalova, Kazakhstan.
* Presentation of NGOs working in the field of women and gender issues.

For any additional information, please refer to:

Lizzy.mayrl@dialogcentral.org, mob. Bishkek +996 (0)
777 717-511, Vienna +43 (0) 664 787-04-46
koldo@elcat.kg, mob. Bishkek +996 (0) 543 922-766

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