52 Documentary Films for Women’s Studies Including 8 New Releases and 11 Films on DVD for the First Time!

Dishonored A Film by Sigrun Norderval & Gard A. Andreassen

In June 2002, a dispute involving a Over a period of four years, despite death question of honor between the Mai threats, Mukhtar Mai persisted in her search and Mastois clans in rural was for justice, and was also instrumental in judged by a local tribal council. When establishing a Crisis Relief Centre for abused Mukhtar Mai pleaded on her family’s behalf, women and a new school where girls as well the local imam consented to her punishment as boys can be educated, had her autobiog- as honor-revenge, and she was brutally gang- raphy published in 21 languages in 45 raped by four men from the Mastois clan. different countries, and traveled on behalf of women’s rights throughout Europe and at the UN in New York. DISHON- ORED features Although local tradition presumed that interviews Mukhtar would commit suicide because with she had been dishonored, this strong-willed Mukhtar peasant woman reported the rape to the Mai as well local police, and when they refused to do as a variety anything, a local journalist published her of human story, which soon erupted in a national rights and controversy over the oppression of women women’s under Islamic law. rights activists, lawyers, government officials, politicians and journalists, all of which serve DISHONORED documents the remarkable to illuminate the widespread abuse of women story of Mukhtar Mai, whose demand for throughout the region. justice received media coverage worldwide, and which over the next few years led to a 2008 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival dramatic series of legal proceedings through Pakistan’s lower court system, with successive 52 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #WS08-01 controversial decisions being appealed, to a Sale/DVD: $390 final ruling by the nation’s Supreme Court, which led to changes in the legal system.

ICARUS FILMS Against My Will Be Fruitful and Multiply A Film by Ayfer Ergun A Film by Shosh Shlam

In Pakistan, many women who decide to “Outspoken and poignant. The film does How does it feel to have been pregnant or leave abusive marriages are signing their own an excellent job of conveying the horror breastfeeding for most of your married life? death warrants. They risk being disfigured or and humanity of the lives of these women. This is one among many questions posed murdered by men who believe it is the only The combination of footage from the frankly in BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, way to restore honor to the family. The Human shelter, the legal office and scenes and which exposes the consequences of the interviews from Kubra’s village and family Rights Commission of Pakistan and the biblical commandment for ultra-orthodox make AGAINST MY WILL a very powerful Women’s Action Forum estimate that 1000 Jewish women, for whom life is a continuing statement against ‘honor killings.’“ women are murdered each year, with little cycle of pregnancy, childbirth, nursing and —Al Jadid, A Review & Record of Arab or no response from the government. nurturing. Culture and Arts At the Dastak women’s shelter in , “Recommended.” The film profiles four ultra-orthodox women, women accused of tarnishing the family —Educational Media Reviews Online in the U.S. and Israel, including Miriam, honor find a safe haven. Here, in this tidy the mother of 16 children in building with a well-kept lawn, they live in 2005 National Women’s Studies Brooklyn, New York; Association Film Festival safety, receiving counseling and legal advice. Emunah, mother of 2004 Film Festival, 14 in Jerusalem; Yaffa, Yentl’s inside view of the Kubra is one such woman. After enduring Association for Asian Studies mother of 5 in Kfar overwhelming peer pres- repeated beatings, the 28-year-old fled to 2003 Prix Italia, Chabad; and Yentl, sure to continually have Dastak. We meet Kubra—armed guard in Best Human Interest Documentary mother of 4 in children, as well as her tow—on her way to a meeting with members 2002 | color | 50 minutes | Order #WS08-02 Meah Shearim. BE questioning of how of her family. They entreat her to return. Sale/DVD: $390 FRUITFUL AND happy her peers actually Eventually, she agrees. Three weeks later, she MULTIPLY docu- are, reveals the extent of is murdered, shot to death in her sleep. ments the women’s the struggle within the Through Kubra’s story, and the stories of daily routines of community to break out of other women at Dastak, AGAINST MY WILL cooking, shopping, the social and ideological creates a portrait of one institution that is housework and child care. structures that bind them. protecting Pakistani women, at least the In interviews, each of the women “A sad, moving and wise film.” women who can make it there. discuss their lives, focusing on their belief in —Ma’ariv the traditional and distinctive roles for women “Absolutely fascinating! Sensitive, and men as dictated by Jewish religion— entertaining, enriching, revealing.” in particular such matters as education, work —Yediot Hacaronot outside the home, and the proper raising of children—as well as on the condition of 2006 Middle East Studies Association FilmFest perpetual motherhood as the “natural” and desirable state of being for women. 2006 Jerusalem International Film Festival Amongst this group of women who rarely 50 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #WS08-03 express self-doubt, and for whom asking Sale/DVD: $298 one’s doctor for an IUD would constitute an act of rebellion, Yentl is the rare exception. This child-birth trainer and educator, whose decision to take a job outside the home was in itself a radical move, explains why she has decided to have no more children.

2 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 3 Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan Chain of Love A Film by Petr Lom A Film by Marije Meerman

Subsequent interviews with the In the developed world, the demand for kidnapped brides, their families as domestic help is increasing. In many Western well as their in-laws’ families—sensi- families both partners need to earn money tively conducted by the film’s Kyrgyz for economic survival. The resulting need for Associate Producer, Fatima additional nursing and childcare has led to a Sartbaeva—reveal both the deep worldwide shift in the areas of care and love. cultural roots of the tradition as well One of the consequences is migration: esca- as growing rejection of it in this lating numbers of women in the Third World newly independent and rapidly are leaving their own children to take care of modernizing society. children in the West, where many parents seemingly can’t care for their children, and pursue their careers. “An excellent and timely documentary.” Women from the Philippines are well —Gale Summerfield, Asian Educational regarded in this respect. They speak English, Media Service’s ‘News and Reviews’ This is the first film to document the custom are Catholic, and according to many, are “Recommended! An important and timely of bride kidnapping, an ancient marriage caring, intelligent, and compliant. They are topic... recommended for a general audi- tradition in Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet less expensive than a nursery school and ence, and would be most useful in an Republic in Central Asia. supply more maternal love. academic library supporting a sociology or cultural studies course examining When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry, he The money earned in the West is sent home Southeast Asia and women’s labor issues.” often abducts the woman he has chosen. to the Philippines. Local help can then be —Educational Media Reviews Online Typically, he and several friends hire a car, hired to look after the children of the expatri- stake out his bride-to-be’s movements, snatch ates. This money is the largest source of 50 minutes | color | 2001 | Order #WS08-05 Sale/DVD: $390 her off the street, and take her to the groom’s “★★★½ [3.5 out of 4 stars!] Highly income in foreign currency, and maternal family home. The abducted woman is held Recommended!”—Video Librarian love has become the second largest export Chapters: until someone from her family arrives to product of the country. 1. Start “Recommended!” 2. Filipino Women, determine whether they will accept the —Educational Media Reviews Online . Migrant Labor “proposal” and she will agree to marry her 3. The Future is Real 4. kidnapper. “Successfully conveys the social and Displaced Love: cultural complexity surrounding this Kids Left Behind 5. The Care Chain BRIDE KIDNAPPING documents in harrowing recently revived practice... The power of 6. State Interests detail four such abductions, from the violent this film lies in its rich visual storytelling. seizures on city streets and the tearful A persuasive and intimate profile.” protests of the women, to the often tense —Visual Anthopology Review negotiations between the respective “Superb...a wonderful film.” families, and either the eventual —Anthropology Review Database acquiescence or continued refusal of the young women. Jury Award, 2005 Film Festival 2005 National Women’s Studies Chapters Association Film Festival 1. Start 2. Ainagul 51 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #WS08-04 3. Nurkyz Sale/DVD: $390 4. Kyal 5. Kairgul & Gulmira 6. Epilogue

4 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 5 Chore Wars: The Battle over Who Cleans the Toilet Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary A Film by Kathy Garneau & Lauren Davis A Film by Alex Szalat

As dual incomes become neces- “A quality documentary… deft and engaging.” sary to meet today’s family’s —Library Journal expenses, increasingly more “A delightful combination of humour and women continue to enter the work force. information… effectively raises complex With both partners working outside the and serious issues facing women and men.” home, how do they share work inside the —Gillian Creese, Chair, Women’s Studies home? CHORE WARS light-heartedly looks Programme, University of British Columbia at the perennial housework dilemma by “CHORE WARS is a charming documentary... going into four homes to find out who does it has a lovely, light tone and is chock-full the laundry, washes the dishes, mows the of frank and fresh interviewees...” lawn, vacuums carpets, parents, and trains —Globe and Mail the kids on how to do chores. Honorable Mention, 1995 These scenes are intercut with “couple-in- Columbus Film Festival the-street” interviews, dramatizations of the 1995 Banff couples’ experiences, and television ads from Television Festival past decades. CHORE WARS also features 1995 Vancouver commentary by Dr. John Gottman, a Film Festival psychologist from the University of Order #WS08-06 Washington, and Dr. Arlie Hochschild, a 48 minutes | color | 1995 | On November 22, 1909, New York “Highly Recommended! Sale/DVD: $375 sociologist and author of The Second Shift. City garment workers gathered in Well worth viewing for a Their insights into the sociological and a mass meeting at Cooper Union glimpse into the history of the labor movement and emotional significance of chores reveal just to discuss pay cuts, unsafe working to discover the struggles why the struggle over who does the dishes is conditions and other grievances. involved.”—Educational so important in society today. After two hours of indecisive Media Reviews Online speeches by male union leaders, a young Jewish woman strode down “Lemlich helped bring a new the aisle and demanded the floor. dimension to the male-domi- Speaking in Yiddish, she passion- nated world of socialism and ately urged her coworkers to labor organizing in the go out on strike. Clara early twentieth Lemlich, a fledgling union century… Her story organizer, thus launched the “Uprising of the is one that needs to be told.”—Booklist 20,000,” when, two days later, garment “Powerful! A fascinating viewing experience.” workers walked out of shops all over the city, —Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter effectively bringing production to a halt. 51 minutes | color-B&W | 2004 | Order #WS08-07 Lemlich’s story is movingly recounted Sale/DVD: $390 through interviews with her daughter and Chapters: grandchildren, dramatic readings from her 1. Start diary, family photos and archival footage, 2. Birth & Youth in strike songs in Yiddish, an interview with Ukraine 3. ILGWU Strike labor historian Alice Kessler-Harris, a visit 4. The Lower East Side to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 5. Education 6. Labor Historian and excerpts from silent Hollywood films Alice Kessler-Harris of the era. 7. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

6 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 7 The Clitoris: Forbidden Pleasure Crimes of Honour A Film by Variety Moszynski & Stephen Firmin A Film by Shelley Saywell

Across the Islamic world, hundreds of “Serious and women are shot, stabbed, strangled or memorable... burned to death each year by their male rela- A well tives, because they are thought to have researched dishonored their families by engaging in documentary. The stories unacceptable relationships. Filmed in Jordan recorded are and on the West Bank, CRIMES OF chilling.” HONOUR documents the terrible reality of —Feminist femicide—the killing of sisters or daughters Collections suspected of losing their virginity, for having Quarterly refused an arranged marriage, or having left a husband. Even if a woman is raped, abused, “Powerful… or is the victim of gossip, she may pay the highly recom- terrible price. mended as it will promote CRIMES OF HONOUR tells the stories of discussion in several women, hiding from their families, a variety of fearing for their lives, as well as the men who areas associated with Women’s Studies This provocative and often humorous docu- “★★★ Recommended!.. a serious, but also commit femicide. CRIMES OF HONOUR and Cultural Studies, as well as mentary explores the “mysteries” of female playfully risqué, documentary… Lots of delves into class and religious issues that Anthropology and Sociology.” sexuality, in particular the clitoris, a tiny, saucy fun!”—Video Librarian infuse the debate, as well as the possible —Educational Media Reviews Online highly sensitive organ that plays no role in “A fine film, done with high production origins of femicide. 2000 National Women’s Studies procreation, and whose sole purpose is Association Film Festival values, tasteful explicit nudity and sexual CRIMES OF HONOUR also profiles three pleasure. With 8,000 nerve endings at its tip, discussions. One can feel comfortable women, committed to human rights, who are 44 minutes | color | 1998 | Order #WS08-09 the clitoris is the most responsive organ in using it in a variety of settings.” fighting for change and who attempt to provide Sale/DVD: $375 the human body, including the tongue or, in —David S. Hall, PhD, for The Electronic protection and assistance to those in danger. men, the penis. Journal of Human Sexuality The film blends graphic imagery, animation, “Recommended! A refreshingly open hilarious TV commercials, and interviews exploration of a topic that is usually with doctors, psychologists, writers, therapists, considered taboo. The video and audio Now on and sex educators to examine both historical qualities are excellent and the graphics Dear Dr. Spencer and contemporary perceptions of the greatly enhance the clinical explanations A Film by Danielle Renfrew & Beth Seltzer psychology and physiology of women’s presented in the film.” sexual response. THE CLITORIS examines —Educational Media Reviews Online This film profiles Dr. Robert Spencer, who, from the early 1920s until his death in 1969, the myth of the vaginal orgasm, 60 minutes | color | 2002 | Order #WS08-08 women’s response to erotica, Sale/DVD: $390 practiced medicine in a small town in the existence of the “G spot,” Pennsylvania, where he treated colds, set Chapters: the nature of female sexual urges, fractures—and performed illegal abortions. 1. Start women’s ability to have multiple 2. Anatomy, & History of... “Perfect for eliciting debate and discussion 3. orgasms, sexual responsibility The Orgasm: Historical & on abortion rights and related issues.” Contemporary Interpretations among teenage girls, the 4. Morality —Booklist debate over Viagra, and 5. Intersex Emmy Nomination, National Academy women’s right to 6. Sex Education 7. Current Physiological of Television Arts & Sciences sexual pleasure. Studies 8. Pharmacology 25 minutes | color | 1998 | Order #WS08-10 9. Success Strategies Sale/DVD: $225

8 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 9 Diamonds in the Dark Now on Do Communists Have Better Sex? A Film by Olivia Carrescia A Film by Andre Meier

From a traditional village bordering Ukraine, Now, ten years after the fall of the The feminist movement popularized to the relatively sophisticated city of Bucharest, Ceausescus, the film asks the question, the phrase, “the personal is political,” DIAMONDS IN THE DARK tells the stories of “What is freedom?” Some women, after and politics gets really personal, even ten Romanian women. We hear and see how years of forced public life, prefer the relative intimate, in this documentary that chronicles they lived under the old regime, and how tranquillity of their homes and small farms. public attitudes and government policies they are confronting the new problems of the Others have discovered the competitive about sex and sexuality in postwar Germany post-communist era. world of business, while a courageous few divided between Western capitalist and strive to unify women and to organize a fight Eastern communist societies. Archival footage and interviews relate the for women’s rights. women’s struggles for survival under Ceausescu. DO COMMUNISTS HAVE BETTER SEX? The chronic lack of heat and electricity, and “Highly recommended for Women’s historically frames its provocative but often the long lines for crumbs of food, were just Studies, Eastern European Studies, amusing investigation by tracing the postwar the beginning of the burdens borne by Sociology, and Political Science.” development of an ideologically divided “Entertaining and informative... a valuable women. Professionals, students, factory —Educational Media Reviews Online Germany, especially the period from the addition to the history of sexuality.” —David S. Hall, PhD, Electronic Journal of workers and farmworkers; all were obliged to “An insightful study of the devastation 1961 erection (no pun intended) of the Berlin Human Sexuality take part in pro-Ceausescu demonstrations, wrought by the Ceausescu regime and the Wall to its collapse, along with the German take care of home and family, and produce problems faced in the period of transfor- Democratic Republic, nearly thirty years later. “An odd but amusing documentary... more children for the regime. Abortion, the mation. Illuminate[s] textures of human In exploring the two punctuated with delightfully randy anima- only form of birth control remotely available, experience... A courageous film [that] societies’ often tion ... viewers with an appreciation for the was forbidden but common. These struggles reveals the diamonds who provided the absurd will enjoy the film’s charm and contrasting were accompanied by a fear of surveillance, real source of illumination in the darkness.” style. Recommended.” views of sex, and a fear of expressing a viewpoint offen- —Joel Marrant, PhD, Linfield College —P. Hall, Video Librarian and how sive to the regime. All of this within the 60 minutes | color | 1999 | Order #WS08-11 these “Often humorous, always informative... historical context of traditional, patriarchal Sale/DVD: $390 defined Recommended.”—Jessica Schomberg, society that has shown few signs of their Educational Media becoming more egalitarian. competitive Reviews Online relationship, the film surveys a wide range of topics, including sex roles, marriage and divorce, family relations, sex education for both adolescents and adults, the ideolog- ical roles of the church and the party, advertising, pornography, nudism, the pill, and abortion.

In trying to answer its provocative question, Chapters: 2007 Avid Award, DO COMMUNISTS HAVE BETTER SEX? 1. East vs. West European Association 2. Facts of Life features interviews with historians, academics of Regional Television 3. Premarital Sex and sex researchers along with a fascinating 4. The Pill & 2007 Yamagata Abortion array of archival footage, government news- International 5. Marketing Sex reels, excerpts from TV programs and sex Documentary 6. Good Sex 7. education films from both East and West Film Festival The Wall Falls Germany, plus humorous animation sequences. 52 minutes | color | 2006 | Order #WS08-12 Sale/DVD: $390

10 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 11 Eileen Gray: Designer and Architect Everything Must Come to Light A Film by Jörg Bundschuh A Film by Mpumi Njinge & Paulo Alberton

Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was always EVERYTHING MUST COME TO LIGHT tells ahead of her time. And thirty years the unusual stories of three dynamic lesbian after her death, she is still considered sangomas (traditional healers) in Soweto, the very essence of the Modern. South Africa. Everyone has seen her furniture—including Articulate and sympathetic, these women the famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, share their stories willingly. After leaving their and the Tube Light—but most people don’t husbands, two of the women were visited by really know the designer and architect who their dominant male ancestors, who created them. instructed them to take wives. They explored their sexuality as a result of this commandment, Born to an aristocratic family of Irish-Scottish “Fascinating… provides excellent opportu- and became intimate with other women. heritage, Gray studied at the Slade School of nities for discovery and dialogue around Fine Arts in before moving to in The relationship between the Sangomas and southern African culture and history and 1902 where, in a revolt against prevailing art their ancestors, the roles the ancestors play in around intersections between gender and nouveau conventions, she mastered lacquer Sangoma healing powers, and the role they lesbianism, sex roles, and current politics.” work and established the Galerie Jean play in shaping Sangoma sexuality, are focal —Feminist Collections Quarterly “A wonderful introduction to the life and Désert, where she sold her avant-garde, points in this documentary. work of this important designer... would be 2002 African Studies Association Film Festival luxury furniture. most useful in collections supporting art, EILEEN GRAY: Designer and Architect also design, and architecture programs. The 25 minutes | color | 2002 | Order #WS08-14 Sale/DVD: $225 examines the history of her architectural independent life Gray led makes this film creations, including E.1027, built in of possible interest to women’s studies Roquebrune, , in 1926. This modernist students as well.”—Sandy River, Educational Media Reviews Online seaside villa is an L-shaped, flat-roofed South Africa Belongs to Us building with floor-to-ceiling windows and a 2008 Award for Best Portrait, A Film by Chris Austin, Peter Chappell & Ruth Weiss spiral staircase, utilizing natural light and International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) Montreal ventilation. E.1027 has today been declared This documentary captures a crucial a French national monument and is presently 52 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #WS08-13 period in South Africa’s history, being restored. Sale/DVD: $390 focusing on the role of women in the struggle against apartheid. SOUTH Using archival AFRICA BELONGS TO US highlights footage, excerpts observational portraits and moving from Gray’s writ- interviews with five ordinary women— ings, plus inter- struggling to feed their children and keep views, EILEEN a roof over their heads—and four leading GRAY chronicles political activists—including Winnie this resolutely Mandela, Fatimah Meer and Numisi independent Khuzwayo, who defy their banned and designer’s artistic outlawed status in their determined efforts formation and life at black consciousness-raising and resist- story, her exten- Chapters: ance to the racist government. sive travels and 1. Icon of the influences, and the Modern “Solid and informative. Presents disturbing 2. Paris & London material in a low-key, matter-of-fact way.” development of her 3. Start of a Career distinctive designs. 4. Interior Design —EFLA Evaluations 5. E.1027 6. New Projects 57 minutes | color | 1980 | Order #WS08-15 7. Rediscovery Sale/DVD: $298 12 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 13 Fat Chance Gorgeous Now on A Film by Yuka Sekiguchi An Animated Film by Kaz Cooke

“An impressive, intimate documentary… GORGEOUS follows the perils of cartoon touching and inspiring... bulging with character Hermoine, the Modern Girl, as she subtle humor.”—The Age tackles plastic surgery, beauty therapy, and “This quirky documentary is the thinking bulimia in a feral fit of inadequacy. person’s ‘Biggest Loser.’” Undermined by her evil inner voice, —Larissa Dubecki, Green Guide otherwise known as Deirdre the weird fairy, “A documentary with humor and heart.” Hermoine journeys from heavy chocolate —Sydney Morning Herald biscuit abuse to tortuous treatment at the beauty salon, the boutique, and the gym. After narrowly escaping the clutches of an When single mom and filmmaker out-of-control plastic surgeon, Hermoine Yuka Sekiguchi (Senso Daughters, finally rebels against Deirdre’s obsession with When Mrs. Hegarty Comes to Japan), eating behavior and “beauty.” overweight at nearly 200 pounds and fast Official Selection, 2000 approaching fifty, determines to lose weight in GORGEOUS asks why girls and young Society for Photographic Education hopes of becoming healthier and happier, she women feel insecure, and what thoughts Conference Film Festival decides to film her struggle, figuring that public tempt them towards eating disorders and Order #WS08-19 other strange rituals. 11 minutes | color | 1994 | humiliation will be a strong incentive to succeed. Sale/DVD: $150 FAT CHANCE, by turns serious and humorous, chronicles her six-month effort, involving experiments with fad diets, Teeth machines that claim to break down body fat, A Film by Alice Arnold exercise programs, diet shakes, and consulta- tions with an obesity expert, a psychiatrist, The vital importance of an attractive smile, “With intelligence and imagination the film and a plastic surgeon. accented by gleaming white teeth, is repeatedly offers a biting look at the marginalization emphasized in all forms of contemporary of character in the quest to achieve a Yuka discovers that her love of food, espe- consumer culture. This film is an amusing but killer, if generic, grin.” cially her weakness for pizza and chocolate, is informative look at the psychological, social —Prof. Stuart Ewen, Film and Media hard to overcome, leading to a yo-yo experi- Studies, Hunter College and economic issues involved in our concerns ence of dieting and bingeing. about dental hygiene, and Although Yuka learns much from experts such how the marketplace as Dr. Gary Egger, founder of GutBusters, and perpetuates and exploits plastic surgeon Dr. Sean Nicklin (on whom these anxieties. she develops a crush, renewing her interest in Featuring interviews with men after many years), her deepest insights people having admittedly are gained from her sessions with psychother- less-than-perfect smiles— apist Dr. George Blair-West, a specialist in the with yellow, crooked, psychology of overeating. Chapters: missing teeth or gaps— 1. Month 1 / plus commentary by Discovering the emotional roots of her over- Expert Advice eating, Yuka comes to term with some deeply 2. Month 2 / Exercise dentists, a psychoanalyst personal issues and, in the process, learns not 3. Month 3 / Old Habits and a health educator, Die Hard 26 minutes | color | 2007 ||CC Order #WS08-39 just about her body, but also finds herself. 4. Month 4 / Gaining TEETH examines historical and cultural Sale/DVD: $225 Confidence attitudes to teeth, society’s current notions CC Order #WS08-16 52 minutes | color | 2007 || 5. Month 5 / A Visit Home of beauty, and the recent boom in teeth- Sale/DVD: 6. Month 6 / Psychological Adjustment whitening products and cosmetic dentistry. 14 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 15 Guns & Mothers Inside Out A Film by Meema Spadola & Thom Powers A Film by Zohreh Shayesteh

Two advocacy groups, The Million Moms Maria is a middle-aged single woman with “Tells a remarkable and fascinating and the Second Amendment Sisters, are three children. Saman is a newly married story...revealing and at times very diametrically opposed on gun control, but young man. Arash is an eighteen-year-old poignant.”—Leonardo Digital Reviews they agree on one point: mothers will and high-school dropout. The one thing that all “[The film] focuses more on the shared should have a voice in determining gun three have in common is that they are trans- humanity of the characters and handles control policy in America. GUNS & sexuals living in the Islamic Republic of Iran. a taboo subject with sensitivity and MOTHERS explores the grassroots beliefs of sympathy. The sense of entrapment INSIDE OUT features intimate conversations both movements by focusing on two different permeating the film is especially with Maria (a male-to-female transsexual), women, living in two different Americas. poignant.”—Jamsheed Akrami, Professor of Saman (female-to-male) and Arash (female- Film, William Patterson University Frances Davis lives in Crown Heights, to-male), allowing them to tell their stories, Brooklyn. Having lost all three of her sons to “★★★½ Sobering and gripping…. Highly including the lifelong struggle to come to “Recommended! Surprising and illuminating.” gun violence, she advocates for stronger gun Recommended!”—Video Librarian terms with their gender dysphoria, how this —Educational Media Reviews Online control and supports the Million Moms. “Heart-wrenching... An admirably respectful mind/body conflict has affected their 2007 Society for Visual She and the Million Moms see stronger gun analysis of both sides of a divisive issue.” everyday behavior, and the impact of Anthropology/AAA Film Festival control laws as a way to prevent the alarm- —Time Out hormone therapy and sex-change surgery on 2007 American Psychological ingly high number of deaths of young people their lives. Association Convention from gun violence in America, an estimated “Recommended! An excellent job in The film also includes revealing interviews 39 minutes | color | 2006 | Order #WS08-20 10 deaths per day. proposing both sides of the gun control issue from two very diverse and diametri- with a Muslim cleric, who explains that the Sale/DVD: $298 Maria Heil has four children and lives in cally opposed advocacy groups.” majority of Iran’s religious leaders consider rural Pennsylvania. Convinced that a gun is —Educational Media Reviews Online transsexuality to be a human rights issue and Chapters: 1. Start / The Cleric a woman’s best tool for self-defense, she’s 2005 National Women’s Studies therefore support gender reassignment 2. Maria become active with the Second Amendment Association Film Festival surgery; a psychiatrist, who 3. The Psychiatrist 4. Saman Sisters. These women believe guns are the explains the difference 5. 53 minutes | color | 2003 ||CC Order #WS08-46 The Surgeon most effective way a woman can protect between homosexuality 6. Social & Sale/DVD: $390 herself and her family. and transsexuality and Religious Issues 7. Arash how the condition The film follows their parallel crusades cannot be cured over the course of a year, starting on psychologically; and Mother’s Day 2000 when the two move- a surgeon, who ments were born with the Million Mom discusses the nature March on Washington and the Second and the difficulties of Amendment Sisters’ smaller counter-rally the required surgery. that same day.

16 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 17 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir Judith Butler A Film by Max Cacopardo Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind A Film by Paule Zadjermann In this rare documentary, Jean-Paul Sartre “Recommended!” —Educational Media Reviews Online (1905-1980) and Simone de Beauvoir (1908- Author of the best-seller Gender Trouble: “An excellent introduction to the work and 1986), two of the most influential and “An intimate portrait of the complex Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, philosophy of a woman who has tried to controversial writers and thinkers of the 20th domestic relationship between two writers. Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor in the avoid and often combat societal ‘pigeon- century, intimately discuss their work, their A powerful and useful inheritance.” Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative holing’ based on gender and sexuality... lives, and the role of public intellectuals in —Debra Levin, Women and Performance Literature at University of California, an excellent resource for classroom use... For librarians, philosophy, and women’s modern society. They were interviewed for this Berkeley) is one of the world’s most impor- “A very moving insight into the lives of studies instructors, JUDITH BUTLER should 1967 French Canadian TV program by tant and influential contemporary thinkers in two personalities who have certainly be considered a needed addition to their Canadian journalist Madeleine Gobeil and fields such as continental philosophy, literary captivated the imagination of the public.” collections.” Les Temps Modernes editor Claude Lanzmann. theory, feminist and queer theory, and —Yolanda Patterson, Ph.D., President, —Elizabeth Ross, River Walk Journal Sartre and Beauvoir, lifelong companions, are Simone de Beauvoir Society cultural politics. “A warm and illuminating jointly questioned about their work habits 2006 Society for Cinema & Media portrait that enables us to and the nature of their relationship. This is Studies Film Festival not a fawning interview session, as both discover the personality and 60 minutes | b&w | 1967 | Order #WS08-21 thought of this engaged Gobeil and Lanzmann pose unusually Sale/DVD: $390 intellectual.” provocative questions. Sartre is confronted —Le Monde with charges that he is “the greatest thinker of the 19th century,” while Beauvoir is asked Chapters: “Illuminating...has much to whether she feels “incomplete” as a woman 1. Start say about feminist theory, 2. Sartre on Vietnam identity, gay rights, AIDS because she never had a child. & Flaubert 3. Beauvoir’s Memoirs activism, homosexuality, and Asked why they have finally agreed to such 4. Sartre on the Nobel Prize Israel.” an intimate look at their lives, Beauvoir 5. Beauvoir on The Second —Booklist explains that they are doing so “out of friend- Sex & the Feminine Condition ship for our readers. Our gift to them. This is 6. Les Temps Modernes a time capsule.” Now available for the first 7. Their Relationship time on DVD, the “time capsule” can at last & Legacy be opened. JUDITH BUTLER: Philosophical Encounters of 52 minutes | color | 2006 ||CC Order #WS08-22 the Third Kind is an up-close and personal Sale/DVD: $390 encounter with this educator and author. The film features interviews with Butler—including Chapters: reminiscences of her formative childhood 1. Problem Child 2. Gender Trouble years, illustrated by family home movies, as a 3. Undoing Gender “problem child”—shows her in classroom 4. Gender Norms sessions in Berkeley and Paris, at public 5. Gay Rights & Israel 6. Homosexuality speaking engagements, and in discussion 7. AIDS with Gender Studies professor Isabell Lorey. Does gender = sexuality? How does the family define gender roles? What are the dangers when society coerces gender norms? What deep-seated social fears are unleashed by those who flout those prescribed roles? What is New Gender Politics? These are just a few of the topical issues explored in the film.

18 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 19 Killer’s Paradise The Life and Times of Sara Baartman A Film by Giselle Portenier A Film by Zola Maseko

Since 1999 more than two thousand THE LIFE AND TIMES OF “A telling and quite powerful film.” women have been murdered in SARA BAARTMAN tells the —American Historical Review Guatemala, with the numbers fascinating story of a 20- “An excellent film... I would recommend escalating every year. Yet, lawmakers and year-old Khoi Khoi woman who in that it be made a part of the video government officials continue to turn a blind 1810 was taken from South Africa library of African, African-American eye. Powerful and uncompromising, KILLER’S to London, and then exhibited as a and Women’s Studies programs.” PARADISE uncovers one of the most freak—”The Hottentot Venus”— —Dr. Miriam Ma’at-Ka-Re Monges, emotionally-wrenching hidden human rights across Britain. California State University, abuses taking place, while exposing the for H-AfriLitCine Using historical drawings, impunity allowed by an inept judicial system. cartoons, legal documents, 2000 National Women’s Studies When 13-year-old Stephanie Lopez was But there are traces of hope: a grass-roots and interviews with noted Association Film Festival found killed, any evidence was buried with human rights movement is emerging from the cultural historians and anthropolo- the body. In the three months since Jorge country’s tainted past. Fueled by frustration, gists, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA 53 minutes | color | 1998 ||CC Order #WS08-24 Velasquez’s daughter was murdered, the case anger, great sadness and loss, women and BAARTMAN deconstructs the social, Sale/DVD: $390 file has shuffled from desk to desk with no men are coming together for a common fight political, scientific and philosophical Chapters: 1. Origins: Khoi Khoi real progress. After five years of hunting in the name of their daughters, wives and assumptions which transformed one in South Africa down her sister’s killers, Maria Elena Peralta sisters. Human rights activist Norma Cruz young African woman into a repre- 2. London is no closer to the truth. No one knows who travels across Guatemala to educate women sentation of savage sexuality and 3. France 4. In Her Own Words is behind these atrocious acts and nothing is on their rights and how to protect themselves racial inferiority. 5. Georges Cuvier & being done to find the culprits. Cases are and others against violence. Jorge finally Scientific Imperialism 6. routinely closed and the murdered women obtains DNA testing for two suspects in his Scientific Racism 7. Home dismissed as nobodies. daughter’s death. Maria Elena travels to The Return of Sara Baartman Washington, D.C. to garner support for her A Film by Zola Maseko long-standing fight. In a storeroom at Paris’s Musée de l’Homme, 2005 National Women’s Studies With stunning realism, KILLER’S PARADISE Association Film Festival documents these heartbreaking stories. a man carefully wraps a jar in heavy white Victims’ friends and family, police officers paper. Inside is the brain of Sara Baartman, 55 minutes | color | 2003 ||CC Order #WS08-25 and investigators, rapists and gang which, along with the rest of her remains, Sale/DVD: $390 members—even a serial killer who still is finally going home to South Africa. Chapters: 1. Start: Baartman’s Life roams freely—offer gripping testimonies This sequel to THE LIFE AND TIMES OF 2. Reclaiming Baartman to the stark reality in Guatemala. SARA BAARTMAN continues the story, and 3. The French Senate Proposal 83 minutes | Color | 2007 ||CC Order #WS08-23 tackles difficult issues of artifact and human 4. The Journey Home Sale/DVD: $398 remains repatriation and the rights of indige- 5. Community Involvement nous people. 6. Capacity to Change the World Chapters: 7. Burial 1. Claudia/Stephanie Even after returning Baartman to South Africa, 2. Norma Past & Present for example, questions and uncertainties 3. Claudina remained. For how does an exploited 4. Maria Helena and Nancy/Dorothy 5. Stephanie’s Funeral/Benki & M18 spirit return home, when home, and the 6. Questionable Investigation accompanying culture, is gone? THE RETURN 7. Peten Prison/Yessenica’s Story OF SARA BAARTMAN explores the meanings 8. Don Jairo & Titina 9. Police/CSI/Evidence of her legacy today. 10. Serial Killer 11. Public Prosecutor/DNA “Recommended! Fascinating! Striking 12. The President/to Washington imagery, camerawork, and music.” 13. Protest/Conclusion —Educational Media Reviews Online 14. Credits 20 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 21 Made Over in America Notes on Marie Menken A Film by Bernadette Wegenstein & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes A Film by Martina Kudlacek

In the age of surgically enhanced Before NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN beauty and reality television, how explores the nearly forgotten story of do we perceive body image? MADE the legendary artist Marie Menken OVER IN AMERICA combines the style of (1909—1970), who became one of New reality television with experimental film to York’s outstanding underground experimental weave together the voices of producers and filmmakers of the 1940s through the 1960s, consumers, surgeons and their patients, inspiring artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy clinical psychologists, media theorists, and Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, and youth who are coming of age in a culture Gerard Malanga. Menken was reported to be where bodies seem to be customizable. the inspiration for the character “Martha” in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Among those in the film are Cindy, a San Woolf, and ended up as a Warhol Superstar, Diego housewife who felt ugly all her life “[A] handsome tribute... Interviews with making a memorable appearance in The various avant-garde luminaries help to until she was made over in the first season of After Chelsea Girls. excavate Menken’s memory and reputation the TV show The Swan, a plastic surgery from the footnotes of film history while clips makeover show; The Swan producer Nely The film presents never-before-seen footage and entire reels of her rarely seen oeuvre Galan, who says she invented the show to by Marie Menken salvaged from basements are intercut. Beautifully transferred empower women; Beverly Hills celebrity and storage vaults, including a camera clips.”—Variety cosmetic surgeon Dr. Randal Hayworth; “duel” for Bolexes between Menken and and maxillo-facial surgeon and beauty expert Andy Warhol. New York composer and musi- “Shines a quavering if welcome ray of light Dr. Stephen Marquardt. cian John Zorn contributes a wonderful film on a largely forgotten figure in the score for this revealing documentary, which American avant-garde film scene...salient MADE OVER IN AMERICA includes archival allows a glimpse into Menken’s social and details and observations emerge in the material on child development, actual plastic artistic struggle. documentary.” surgery procedures, art video and collage —Manohla Dargis, montages showing popular imagery, “Brings back to life the work of Marie combined with powerful stories of how far “An extraordinarily dense and insightful Menken, and rescues her from the margins Americans will go to fit in, showing the portrait... a sometimes joyous, sometimes of cinematic history, restoring her to a posi- power of media in shaping ideas of beauty. scary experience that takes you right to tion as one of experimental cinema’s fore- the heart—or should one say to the skin— most, and most pioneering, feminist of the beauty industry.” filmmakers.”—Film and History —Michael Freund, Head of Media Communications, Webster University, Vienna “Highly Recommended.” —Educational Media Reviews Online “A collage of images and observations in a variety of visual forms and narrative tones 2006 Tribeca International Film Festival that range from darkly humorous to deadly serious.”—F. Swietek, Video Librarian 2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival 65 minutes | color | 2007 ||CC Order #WS08-26 Order #WS08-28 Sale/DVD: $398 97 minutes | color - b&w | 2006 | Sale/DVD: $348

Chapters: 1. Definitions of Beauty 2. The Swan 3. Body Image 4. Media Images 5. Surgery 6. Make-Over Beauty 7. The Reveal

22 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 23 The Passion of María Elena Paulina A Film by Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez A Film by Vicky Funari & Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

In the 1950’s, when Paulina was a child in a “A remarkable documentary... simultane- rural Mexican village, her parents traded her ously devastating and inspiring... assured, away for land rights. The villagers ostracized intelligent filmmaking... a testament to what her and the town boss raped her, keeping her the human spirit can endure and rise as his unwilling mistress throughout much of above.”—The New York Times her adolescence. At 15, she took control of “An important study of gender and class her destiny and escaped to Mexico City to politics, and as a powerful reminder that begin a new life. even the most seemingly humdrum life is significant.”—Time Out New York Now middle-aged, Paulina returns to her village to confront her family about what “A great visual invention... A chilling view of happened and encounters a web of intrigue sexual expropriation and family betrayal, and denial. PAULINA interweaves documen- and one which we have never seen tary and fiction styles to explore the charac- before.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian ters’ radically different perspectives and 2001 Award of Merit in Film, memories, and those of this vital, resilient Latin American Studies Association woman. 2001 National Women’s Studies Association Film Festival

When María Elena’s 3-year-old son Jorge is “[A] bracing look at violence and justice.” Grand Jury Prize, 1998 San Francisco Film Festival killed in a hit-and-run accident in —The New York Times Order #WS08-30 Chihuahua, Mexico, she begins a quest for “Skillfully captures the quotidian and 90 minutes | color | 1997 | Sale/DVD: was $440 now $398 justice that brings her face to face with extraordinary sorrows and joys of the racism, corruption, and the traditional atti- Rarámuri… an engaging starting point for tudes of her community. a discussion about racism and sexism as well as the meanings of ethnic and gender María Elena is indigenous—a Rarámuri—and identities.”—The Americas: A Quarterly Marisela, the driver who killed her son, is Journal of Inter-American Cultural History “white.” María Elena must therefore face not only an official justice system that discrimi- “A true account of tragedy, grief and injus- nates against her, but also the whispers of tice that reflects on complex views with those in her remote mountain community eloquent simplicity and heartfelt directness.” who regard her with suspicion because she is —Variety a divorced woman who moved to the city. Best Documentary, 2003 Sao Paulo Film Festival This moving story of grief and healing, injustice and cultural identity is recounted Best Mexican Feature, 2003 Guadalajara Film Festival through scenes with María Elena, her parents, other family members, and friends, 76 minutes | color | 2003 | Order #WS08-29 plus her lawyer and a Human Rights Sale/DVD: $440 Commission representative. These varying Chapters: perspectives help us to understand the clash 1. Start 2. Soul of opposing worldviews and to appreciate 3. Bringing On the Wind the nature of Rarámuri beliefs. 4. Woman 5. Tesgüino 6. Where the Dead Are 7. Submit for the Judgment 8. Bearded 9. Stopping Dreams of Ill Omen 10. Broken Promises 24 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 25 The Perfumed Garden Repetition Compulsion Now on A Film by Yamina Benguigui A Film by Ellie Lee

THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration However, Lee did not want to expose her of the myths and realities of sensuality and subjects or exacerbate their pain. Rather than sexuality in Arab society, a world of taboos depict their struggles explicitly, Lee chose to and of erotic literature. Through interviews weave their words over animated charcoal with men and women of all ages, classes, images she created. Lee explains, “Through and sexual orientation, the film lifts a corner animation, violent scenarios can be transformed of the veil that usually shrouds discussion of into an angry flurry of charcoal lines; it allows this subject in the Arab world. me to depict their hardships with a universality that does not exploit the lives of the particular Made by an Algerian-French woman director, women upon whom this film is based.” the film begins by looking at the record of a more permissive “Looks unblinkingly REPETITION COMPULSION is an animated history, and at the political issues documentary which explores how prolonged ends with of racism and xeno- childhood abuse in the lives of homeless phobia that Muslim the experi- women has set the stage for further victim- immigrants experi- ences of ization on the streets. ence as well as at the contempo- tensions between reli- Many homeless women develop intimate rary lovers gious practices and yet ultimately destructive relationships with from mixed customs and the homeless men for companionship and backgrounds. It exam- contemporary expres- protection. Weaving dark and violent ines the personal sions of sexuality and charcoal imagery with actual interviews of issues raised by the female and male homeless women, the film describes the “Making full use of animation’s power to desire for pleasure, relationships [and] provides the viewer with crippling feelings of worthlessness, depression, convey a nightmare, REPETITION COMPUL- amidst societal pres- first hand accounts of the repression and powerlessness, paranoia and terror as the SION burrows intimately into the world of sures for chastity and injustice that Muslim women live with. This women become increasingly more battered women. Thoroughly deserving of virginity. film would be useful with high school, dependent on the homeless men who the grand prize, Lee’s film is more enlight- college, and general audiences to facili- ening in its seven minutes than a stack of The film discusses pre- support yet continue to hurt them. tate discussion about women’s issues, documentaries or dramas.” marital sex, courtship cross- cultural and religious attitudes Born directly out of the filmmaker’s experience —The Boston Globe and marriage, familial toward women and sexual relationships.” of working for four years with homeless pressures, private vs. public spaces, social Winner, Best of Festival, 1998 —Gale H. Golden, Clinical Assistant women who had suffered long, unaddressed taboos (and the desire to break them), and New England Film and Video Festival Professor of Psychiatry, for the Archives of histories of physical and sexual abuse, issues of language. Sexual Behavior Winner, Second Place, 1998 REPETITION COMPULSION gives voice Black Maria Film and Video Festival National Women’s Studies and vision to these women’s stories of abuse THE PERFUMED GARDEN also demon- 1998 Human Rights Watch Association Film Festival strates how the rich legacy of fantasy in “A and survival. International Film Festival Thousand and One Arabian Nights” perme- Best Documentary, 2001 Order #WS08-32 ates contemporary Arab culture, and shows Turin Women’s Film Festival (Italy) 7 minutes | color | 1997 | Sale/DVD: $150 that this world of pleasure and proscription 2002 Vermont survives as a form of survival and resistance Women’s Film Festival to this day. 2002 OutFest—Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

52 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #WS08-31 Sale/DVD: $390

26 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 27 Saudi Solutions The Secret Life of Babies A Film by Bregtje van der Haak A Film by Bernard George

Thirty years ago the conventional wisdom experiences before and after birth, in particular was that the fetus in the womb could not how it organizes its perceptions and how this hear. Today scientists have shown that by the relates to fundamental and lifelong questions seventh month of pregnancy, all five of the of memory, language and learning. fetus’s senses are working and that the baby “Enlightening...A thought-provoking, may actually remember and learn from frequently illuminating analysis of a prenatal experiences. cutting-edge topic of both academic and THE SECRET LIFE OF BABIES, a two-part general interest, this is highly recom- documentary, explores the extent of the mended.”—Video Librarian baby’s vast world of perceptions, from “Beautiful and well done.” intrauterine life (Part 1) to the first months —Science Books & Films following birth (Part 2). How does the baby perceive its world and ours? What are its “Fascinating... parents, medical professionals, and students involved in capacities for learning and memorizing? Do neo-natal care will benefit greatly from babies respond to the voices of their mothers seeing this documentary.” and other external stimuli? What happens In Saudi Arabia, one of the most religiously —Leonardo On-Line Reviews when the baby leaves the intrauterine envi- conservative societies in the Middle East, ronment of amniotic fluid, where all its needs 2007 American Psychological women are not allowed to vote or to drive a were satisfied almost instantly, and enters the Association Convention car. Men and women are segregated in most world of air and gravity? Order #WS08-34 public spaces and work environments. A strict 2 x 43 minutes | color | Sale/DVD: $440 dress code enforced by religious police mandates Filmed in France, Canada and the U.S., the that women cover their heads and bodies in documentary features remarkable intrauterine public, where they must always be accompa- footage showing the fetus’s response to nied by a husband or other male guardian. “Succeeds in portraying the enormous external stimuli, evoking a sense of awe at struggle of women in Saudi Arabia, and in the wondrous experience of childbirth. Chapters: In SAUDI SOLUTIONS, filmmaker Bregtje van 1. Through interviews with some of the world’s Part One–Prenatal der Haak travels to Saudi Arabia to try and demonstrating how far they have to go to Psychology achieve a culturally acceptable form of leading cognitive and developmental 2. Part Two–Postnatal look at the lives of women inside this closed equality.”—Al Jadid: A Review & Record of psychologists, doctors, and scientists, this film Psychology society. She profiles several women with Arab Culture and Arts reveals what we know today about the baby’s professional careers—including a journalist, a doctor, a photographer, a television news- “Tackles a timely and complex topic which reader, a university professor, and the nation’s will undoubtedly foster rich discussions first female airplane pilot—and asks them to among students.”—School Library Journal explain what it means to be a modern 2006 FilmFest, woman in a fundamentalist Islamic society. Middle East Studies Association In discussing their everyday lives and World Television Award Nominee, 2006 BANFF TV Festival concerns, the women are surprisingly defen- sive of Saudi social customs, arguing that, 77 minutes | color | 2006 | Order #WS08-33 while they see the desirability of gradual Sale/DVD: $398 social reform, they see no conflict between Chapters: 1. Introduction Islamic law and the rights of women. They 2. The Journalist are especially resistant to Western pressures 3. Factory Workers to abandon their value system for one 4. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal imposed on them from outside. 5. The Gynecologist 6. Anchorwomen 7. The Pilot 28 Icarus Films 8. The Photographer Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 29 Senso Daughters Tracing Aleida: The Story of a Search A Film by Noriko Sekiguchi A Film by Christiane Burkhard

Investigates the Japanese army’s During the 1970s, Mexico mistreatment during World War II engaged in a “dirty war” of New Guinean women and against left-wing dissidents “comfort girls,” military prostitutes who were and suspected “subversives,” deceptively conscripted by being told they resulting in the arrest and “disap- would clean and cook. pearance” of hundreds of its own citizens. In many instances, the “An unforgettable documentary.” —Journal of Asian Studies children of the “disappeared” were adopted by other families. Since 54 minutes | color | 1989 | Order #WS08-51 2000, long-secret documents about Sale/DVD: $390 these events have become public, revealing the stories of these Shirin Ebadi: A Simple Lawyer missing victims of the “dirty war.” A Film by Bani Khoshnoudi TRACING ALEIDA relates the story of “Seeks to give face, name and voice to 31-year-old Aleida Gallangos, who discov- one of the hundreds of cases of missing This documentary profiles Iranian attorney ered her true identity only in 2001, and her persons in Mexico in the seventies.” Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel 3-year-long efforts to locate her older brother, —La Jornada Jalisco Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for from whom she was separated at the age of 2 Best Mexican Documentary, 2008 democracy and human rights. SHIRIN when their parents were arrested by state Guadalajara International Film Festival EBADI: A SIMPLE LAWYER features an security forces in 1975. Researching adoption in-depth interview with Ebadi, speeches at Signis Prize, International Catholic records, Aleida traced her brother, Lucio Association for Communications, numerous international conferences, and a Antonio, to a Mexican family living in Tepoztlan Documentary Festival visit to the children’s center she founded. Washington, D.C. 88 minutes | color | 2007 | Order #WS08-36 Appointed the first female president of the This documentary interweaves Aleida’s Tehran City Court in 1975, Ebadi lost her example, that although women in Iran are contemporary efforts to locate and arrange a position following the Islamic Revolution in taking a more active role in social life, meeting with her long-lost brother, now 1979, when women were forbidden to serve including increased attendance at universities, known as Juan Carlos Hernandez, with the as judges. She was readmitted to the bar in the status of women has actually regressed personal and political history of her parents, the early 1990’s when she began to challenge since the Islamic Revolution. including the raid on a guerrilla safe house Iran’s religious courts over a wide variety that resulted in their disappearance and the of issues. “Highly Recommended!” —Educational Media Reviews Online separation of the two children, Ebadi argues that the most serious problem and culminates in an 2006 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, in Iran today is the misuse of religion and emotionally moving Economics, and Society Conference that judges must be independent of the reunion, after 29 Islamic government. She points out, for 2005 FilmFest, years, between Middle Eastern Studies Association Aleida and her 48 minutes | color | 2004 | Order #WS08-35 brother. Sale/DVD: $375 Chapters: Chapters: 1. Looking for Tony 1. Start 2. Aleida’s Story 2. “Not a Spokesperson” 3. The Disappeared 3. Reforming Iranian Justice 4. Finding Tony 4. International Conferences 5. Family History 5. Iranian Women’s 6. Meeting Tony Movement 7. Tony or Juan Carlos? 6. Children’s Rights 7. Solidarity with Colombia 30 Icarus Films See Page 39 for Ordering Information 31 The Two Lives of Eva The Women of Hezbollah A Film by Esther Hoffenberg A Film by Maher Abi-Samra

Her lifelong effort to Filmmaker WOMEN OF HEZBOLLAH is a portrait of reconcile the Maher Abi- two women, Zeinab and Khadjie, activists in emotional conflicts Samra returns the Hezbollah, and an examination of the of her two lives— to the neigh- personal, social and political factors of their fueled by a sense of borhood of commitment. shame about her his youth, “Highly Recommended!... Very well Germany identity Ramel el Ali, balanced... excellent historical primer and feelings of in Beirut’s on the social and political conditions cowardice about her southern contributing to this culture.” inaction during the suburb. Settled —Educational Media Reviews Online war—manifested in the 1950’s by the mostly Shiite community 2005 National Women’s Studies itself during the from the villages of southern Lebanon and Association Film Festival Seventies in a the Beka Valley, this community grew on the series of mental rubble of the civil war. By the early 1980’s it 49 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #WS08-40 breakdowns and had become one of the strongholds of the Sale/DVD: $375 hospitalizations. Islamic Party of God, the Hezbollah.

In this emotionally moving documentary, Esther Hoffenberg investigates the early life of her mother, Eva (née Lamprecht), inter- viewing her friends, relatives and acquain- tances, and scrutinizing her mother’s Stories of Honor and Shame tape-recorded reminiscences, family photos, A Film by Antonia Caccia home movies, letters and other documents, “A powerful film.” to reveal how emotional traumas rooted in “Shattering… —Miriam W. Jacobs, The Jewish Standard Eva’s experiences during WWII eventually engrossing… tragically affected not only her, but also her a complex testa- “Intimate… remarkable… superbly crafted.” entire family. ment to a woman of —The Middle East extraordinary strength and fragility, and a “Compelling.”—Moving Pictures Bulletin Born in Poland to parents of Germany life wrecked and rebuilt by the tides of nationality, Eva was a young woman during history.”—The Village Voice 1997 Human Rights Watch the German invasion and occupation of Film Festival Patrimony Prize, 2005 Poland. As a member of a wealthy Lutheran Cinéma du Réel Festival 58 minutes | color | 1996 | Order #WS08-52 family, Eva lived a protected life, although 2005 New York Sale/DVD: $390 she was aware of the deportation of Poland’s Jewish Film Festival Jews, including one of her closest friends, to Through a series of remarkable personal 85 minutes | color | 2005 | Order #WS08-37 Nazi concentration camps. accounts, fifteen Palestinian women living in Purchase/DVD: $440 When the Soviet Army arrived in 1945, Eva the Gaza Strip reveal their roles in a patriarchal left for Germany where she met a Warsaw Chapters: Islamic society where men dictate most ghetto survivor. Together they left for Paris, 1. Start / Lutheran aspects of life. The film shows the resilience Childhood in Poland and courage of women who, despite very where they married and began a new life. 2. WWII & German Occupation Eva converted to Judaism and, having 3. The Family Business difficult circumstances, all speak with 4. Postwar Emigration, enormous dignity and grace. Together they learned more about the horrors of the Stas Hoffenberg, & Paris Holocaust from her husband, passionately 5. Identity: German or Polish? give an in depth picture of the complexity devoted herself to Jewish issues. 6. Conversion to Judaism and pathos of women’s lives in this very 7. Poland’s Legacy restrictive traditional society.

32 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 33 Women In The Middle East: Working Women of the World Four Films Produced by Elizabeth Fernea A Film by Marie France Collard

Elizabeth W. Fernea, Professor Emeritus of English and Middle Eastern Studies at the University Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., of Texas at Austin, is a writer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the Middle East, particu- WORKING WOMEN OF THE larly women and the family. She is the author of such acclaimed titles as In Search of Islamic WORLD follows the relocation of Feminism and Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village. garment production from Western A Veiled Revolution The Price of Change countries to nations such as Directed by Marilyn Gaunt Directed by Marilyn Gaunt Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the Egyptian women were the For 60 years, Egyptian women have been grad- rule and employee rights are first Arab women to march ually entering all sectors of the public work in political demonstrations force. Work outside the home, once consid- nonexistent. (1919), the first to take off ered shameful, has today become a necessity The film introduces us to women their veils publicly (1923), for many families. THE PRICE OF CHANGE like Yanti, a 26-year-old and the first to receive free examines the lives of five women to present a Indonesian who works ten hours secular education (1924). picture of changing attitudes toward work, a day, six days a week, for $60 a But today the educated family, sex, and the woman’s place in society. month (the price of a pair of Levi’s in Jakarta). France, and Belgium, WORKING WOMEN granddaughters of those 1984 National Women’s Studies Conditions at the factory are dreadful. There OF THE WORLD puts these women’s stories early Arab feminists are returning to Islamic Association Film Festival dress, complete with full face veil and gloves. are five filthy toilets for 2000 women, and, into the larger history and development of 26 minutes | color | 1982 | Order #WS08-55 with no ventilation, the factory is an inferno. globalization. A VEILED REVOLUTION interviews contem- Sale/DVD: $280 Any protest is met with immediate intimida- porary Egyptian women who explain their “Informative.” tion and increased surveillance until the reasons for returning to Islamic dress and the —Educational Media Reviews Online Saints and Spirits offender quits. reasons for this turn back to tradition—the Directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies “Has much to offer sociology courses, resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism and the Through Aisha bint WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD also especially those in gender stratification, rejection of Western values. Muhammad, SAINTS AND presents the stories of her Western counter- women and development, and globaliza- “Excellent.”—Science Books & Films SPIRITS explores the parts who are losing their jobs. Maria Therese tion… The filmmakers’ sensitivity to gender, personal dimensions of was a union representative at the Levis class, and age discrimination infuses the “An excellent basis for discussion.” Islam during three religious factory in Yser La Basse, France. In inter- viewers’ experiences and teaches us much —EFLA Evaluations events in Morocco: the views, she describes the work, the wage about the impact of globalization on Finalist, 1983 festive annual renewal of structure, and her negotiations with manage- women in the 21st century.” American Film Festival contact with spirits in ment and the government after the closure —Diane E. Levy, Department of Sociology Marrakech; the pilgrimage 26 minutes | color | 1982 | Order #WS08-54 announcement. and Criminal Justice, University of North Sale/DVD: $280 to the shrine of Sidi Carolina at Wilmington Chamharouch, high in the Atlas Mountains; Behind the new gospel of free trade are the and the veneration of a new saint’s shrine. real lives of women in the North and South. 2004 National Women’s Studies Association Film Festival Women under Siege Filmed in Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, 26 minutes | color | 1979 | Order #WS08-57 Directed by Marilyn Gaunt 2003 Association for Sale/DVD: $280 Asian Studies Film Festival Rashadiyah, Lebanon, “The producer of these is six miles from Israel. 53 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #WS08-41 In 1964, 14,000 films, Elizabeth Fernea, is a Sale/DVD: $390 Palestinian refugees writer whose experience in the Near transformed this then East goes back about 30 years. peaceful agrarian Consequently, the films represent a distillation village overnight into a primary target for repeat- of understanding difficult to match. Although ed Israeli military attacks. WOMEN UNDER the focus of these films is on women—and SIEGE introduces six women who play crucial would, therefore, be useful for any social science roles in this besieged Palestinian community. course in women’s studies—the films are also fine for general anthropology, for political science 26 minutes | color | 1982 | Order #WS08-56 courses about the contemporary Near East, Sale/DVD: $280 and for the sociology of social change.” 34 Icarus Films —Psychology of Women Quarterly See Page 39 for Ordering Information 35 More Films & DVDs for Women’s Studies

Breaking the Ice, Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker Ms. Conceptions Ringl and Pit The Story Of Mary Ann Shadd A Film by Joanne Grant A Film by Ric Esther Bienstock A Film by Juan Mandelbaum A Film by Sylvia Sweeney FUNDI: THE STORY OF ELLA This film profiles RINGL AND PIT explores the lives and times BREAKING THE BAKER reveals the instrumental women who have of emigré photographers Grete Stern (1904- ICE sheds new role that Ella Baker, a friend and given up on relation- 1999) and Ellen Auerbach light on the advisor to Martin Luther King, played in ships but are unwilling (1906-2004)—from their remarkable story shaping the American civil rights movement. to sacrifice mother- early days together as the of abolitionist, By looking at the 1960s from hood. As it examines “ringl + pit” studio in suffragette and the perspective of Baker, both sides of the Weimar Germany integrationist the “godmother of the “Single Mother by to their later photo- Mary Ann Shadd, who started the first inte- Student Nonviolent Choice” controversy, graphic work grated school in Canada, and was the first Coordinating Committee,” MS. CONCEPTIONS spanning three female newspaper editor and first black FUNDI offers an essential lends invaluable continents. understanding of the U.S. insight into the “family values” debate. female attorney in North America. “An excellent resource that would charm civil rights movement. “[An] inspiring story.”—Booklist “A profound, delightful and compassionate and inform photography students and “Can enrich us immeasurably, adding depth encapsulation of a many-sided issue that other viewers, from upper secondary 2001 National Women’s Studies school levels through the most sophisti- Association Film Festival and texture to our understanding of an has long-term ramifications for all of us.” important part of our past, inspiring us with —Network Magazine cated adult viewer.”—School Arts 23 minutes | color | 1999 ||CC Order #WS08-44 examples of lives lived fully and purpose- 1996 Director’s Choice Award, Sale/DVD: $225 2000 National Women’s Studies fully.”—Harvard Educational Review Association Film Festival Black Maria Film Festival

2005 National Women’s Studies 56 minutes | color | 1995 | Order #WS08-47 56 minutes | color | 1996 | Order #WS08-50 A Female Cabby in Association Film Festival Sidi Bel-Abbès Sale/DVD: $298 Sale/DVD: $390 48 minutes | color | 1981 ||CC Order #WS08-17 A Film by Belkacem Hadjadj Now on Sale/DVD: $390 No Man’s Land: 3 cm Less This film on the Women Frontline Journalists A Film by Azza El-Hassan only woman cab I Am Somebody A Film by Shelley Saywell Part video diary, part quest for reconciliation, driver in this A Film by Madeline Anderson Algerian city By profiling leading 3 CM LESS tells the parallel stories of two shows her This classic documentary chronicles women war correspon- very different Palestinian women who, experiences in the struggle of 400 poorly paid dents, who speak of together with the filmmaker, attempt to heal a job normally black women—hospital workers in their experiences and the rifts in their families reserved for men and reveals the attitudes Charleston, South personal sacrifices, while probing their toward women in this Islamic society. Carolina—who went on NO MAN’S LAND “invisible hunger” for strike in 1969 to demand provides a gripping love and security—all “Challenges our assumptions about women union recognition and a portrait of women who within the context of and work in the Muslim world… a valuable wage increase, only to have staked places in a the Israeli/Palestinian antidote to the passive and faceless find themselves in a traditionally male conflict. image of Arab women so often portrayed confrontation with the profession. in Western media.”—Al Jadid: A Review & “Recommended!” National Guard and the Record of Arab Culture and Arts “Fascinating... Femininity gives them a —Educational Media state government. unique perspective into the most senseless Reviews Online 2001 National Women’s Studies “An excellent film for courses which touch macho acts. They can empathize with the Association Film Festival 60 minutes | color | 2003 | Order #WS08-53 on women’s work, American society, and victims and are not given to false sentimen- Sale/DVD: $390 52 minutes | color | 2000 | Order #WS08-45 issues of class, race, and ethnicity.” tality.”—Starweek Sale/DVD: $390 —American Anthropologist 50 minutes | color | 1994 | Order #WS08-48 30 minutes | color | 1970 | Order #WS08-18 Sale/DVD: $390 Sale/DVD: $225 36 Icarus Films Call Toll Free: 800 876 1710 37 Subject Index Africa Europe Jewish Studies & Issues Politics Everything Must Come to Light...... 13 Diamonds in the Dark ...... 10 Be Fruitful and Multiply ...... 3 Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary . . . 7 The Life and Times of Sara Baartman . . . 21 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary . . . 7 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 The Return of Sara Baartman ...... 21 Eileen Gray ...... 12 Judith Butler ...... 19 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 36 South Africa Belongs to Us ...... 13 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . 18 The Two Lives of Eva ...... 32 Guns and Mothers ...... 16 African-American Ringl and Pit ...... 37 Labor I Am Somebody ...... 36 Breaking the Ice, The Two Lives of Eva ...... 32 Chain of Love...... 5 Shirin Ebadi ...... 30 The Story of Mary Ann Shadd ...... 36 Working Women of the World ...... 35 Chore Wars ...... 6 South Africa Belongs to Us ...... 13 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 36 Family Relations Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary . . . 7 Tracing Aleida ...... 31 Guns and Mothers ...... 16 Be Fruitful and Multiply ...... 3 A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès . . . . . 36 The Women of Hezbollah...... 33 I Am Somebody ...... 36 Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan ...... 4 I Am Somebody ...... 36 Reproductive Rights Arts Chore Wars ...... 6 No Man’s Land...... 37 Be Fruitful and Multiply ...... 3 Eileen Gray ...... 12 Crimes of Honour...... 9 Working Women of the World ...... 35 Dear Dr. Spencer ...... 9 Notes on Marie Menken...... 23 Diamonds in the Dark ...... 10 Latin America Diamonds in the Dark ...... 10 Ringl and Pit ...... 37 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Killer’s Paradise ...... 18 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Asia Ms. Conceptions ...... 37 The Passion of Maria Elena ...... 24 Ms. Conceptions ...... 37 Against My Will ...... 2 The Perfumed Garden...... 26 Paulina...... 25 The Secret Life of Babies ...... 29 Chain of Love...... 5 The Secret Life of Babies ...... 29 Tracing Aleida ...... 31 Dishonored ...... 1 Stories of Honor and Shame ...... 33 Law Fat Chance ...... 14 Tracing Aleida ...... 31 Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan ...... 4 Senso Daughters...... 30 The Two Lives of Eva ...... 32 The Passion of Maria Elena ...... 24 Working Women of the World ...... 35 Feminist Theory & Criticism Saudi Solutions...... 28 Biography The Clitoris...... 8 Shirin Ebadi ...... 30 Ordering Information Breaking the Ice, Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Middle East Studies & Issues The Story of Mary Ann Shadd ...... 37 Everything Must Come to Light...... 13 Please refer to Order Numbers Against My Will ...... 2 on all Orders. Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary . . . 7 Inside Out ...... 15 Dishonored ...... 1 Sales: Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Judith Butler ...... 19 Crimes of Honour...... 9 DVDs are “leased for the life of the DVD.” Eileen Gray ...... 12 The Perfumed Garden...... 26 A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès . . . . . 36 Previews: Films may be previewed for purchase Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 36 Gender & Sexuality The Perfumed Garden...... 26 consideration by established video libraries. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . 18 The Clitoris...... 8 The Price of Change ...... 34 Ordering: Submit all orders by purchase order, The Life and Times of Sara Baartman . . . 21 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Saudi Solutions...... 28 on official institutional letterhead stationery, or The Return of Sara Baartman ...... 21 Everything Must Come to Light...... 13 Stories of Honor and Shame ...... 38 pay in advance of shipping. Please refer to South Africa Belongs to Us ...... 13 Inside Out ...... 17 A Veiled Revolution ...... 34 Order Numbers on all orders. 3CM Less ...... 37 Judith Butler ...... 19 3CM Less ...... 37 Tracing Aleida ...... 31 The Perfumed Garden...... 26 The Women of Hezbollah...... 33 The Two Lives of Eva ...... 32 The Life and Times of Sara Baartman . . . 19 Women Under Siege ...... 34 Body Image Senso Daughters...... 30 The Clitoris...... 8 Health Fat Chance ...... 14 Dear Dr. Spencer ...... 9 Gorgeous ...... 15 Fat Chance ...... 14 Made Over in America ...... 22 Made Over in America ...... 22 Teeth ...... 15 Repetition Compulsion ...... 27 Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Teeth ...... 15 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 Against My Will ...... 2 History Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan ...... 4 Do Communists Have Better Sex?...... 11 Tel: (718) 488-8900 • (800) 876-1710 Crimes of Honour...... 9 Tracing Aleida ...... 31 Fax: (718) 488-8642 Dishonored ...... 1 The Two Lives of Eva ...... 32 [email protected] Killer’s Paradise ...... 20 www.IcarusFilms.com Paulina...... 25 Repetition Compulsion ...... 27 38 Icarus Films 39 PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID RIPON 32 Court Street, 21st Floor PRINTERS Brooklyn, NY 11201

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