WOMEN'S FIGHTS

INTERNATIONAL MID-LENGTH FILM COMPETITION WOMEN’S FIGHTS

26.09 / 14.00 / KINO BIZE

W. SISTERS’ BEAUTY SALON
Salon siostr w.
Jakub Stozek
Documentary / Poland / 2014 / 30’
In 2012, a peculiar beauty salon was
opened in Szczecin. It is the only beau
ty parlour for women with cancer. It is
run by two sisters, Joanna Wiszniews
ka and Jolanta Wiewióra, who know
from their own experience how trou
blesome it may be for patients to visit
to a hairdresser or a beautician. Their
establishment is different. Clients have
an opportunity to talk freely about their
dreams and fears related to the illness.

HONEY ON WOUNDS
Iulia Stoian
Documentary / UK / 2014 / 30’
During the Kosovo War thousands
of Albanian women witnessed the
execution of their husbands. They are
now forbidden to remarry, or lead inde
pendent lives. In a village of widows,
they are being shown a sweet way to
start the healing journey.

VARYA

Varja
Aliona Polunina
Documentary / Latvia / 2014 / 47’
AInterims, uncertainties, illustrated by
the great search engine powers: for
Yandex, the Crimea is Russian territory,
for Google it is Ukrainian. And the
realm of Facebook is only a keystroke
away, not to be underestimated as a
platform for ideological positioning.
When Aliona Polunina tries to shoot a
film about the Russian-Ukrainian war
she meets Varya, a simple Moscow
mathematics teacher with frizzy grey
hair, naive eyes, health sandals, plastic
bags and a notebook. Varya is strange,
but a heroine: she canvasses her
Facebook contacts in the country that
became the declared enemy of her
government overnight. Varya goes to
Ukraine to explore a whole spectrum
of political and national euphoria there
(be it militant or pacifist, idiosyncratic
or collective), which she emphatically
tries to understand and communicate
to her Russian fellow campaigners in
defiance of the delusions propagated
by the mass media.