Women in Conflict Film 5 August - 5 September 2015

I Came to Testify the 2015 Beyond Borders Film Festival explores some of the most crucial and Pamela Hogan - 2011 - 55min - Bosnia/USA immediate changes happening in the

modern world, with a special focus on B B I Came to Testify is the moving story of women and conflict, the changes brought how a group of 16 women, who had been by modern warfare, and the changes imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in experienced by those at the epicentre of the Bosnian town of Foca, broke history’s conflict. On September 5, the Film Festival great silence - and stepped forward to take dedicates itself to Women: Agents of the witness stand in an international court Change. For the full programme see the of law. Their remarkable courage resulted Beyond Borders & Filmhouse website. o e in a triumphant verdict that led to new international laws about sexual violence in Burden of Peace war. Narrated by Matt Damon. Joey Boink/Sander Wirken - 2015 - 20 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: Red Netherlands/Guatemala Lecture Theatre | £5 | 16+ y Burden of Peace follows Guatemala’s first r The War We Are Living female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz Orina Zill de Granados - 2011 - 55min - in her fight against impunity. After taking office, Claudia obtains spectacular results Colombia/USA and many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strong d The War We Are Living travels to Cauca, a resistance from powerful elites that have o mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific up to then felt above the law. Will Claudia southwest, where two extraordinary Afro- be able to win this battle? Colombian women are braving a violent 5 September | 4-6pm | Filmhouse | struggle over their gold-rich lands. They £7.20(5.70) | 12+ are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized and e forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy God is Not Working on Sunday n of war. Narrated by Alfre Woodard. Leona Goldstein - 2014 - Germany/Rwanda 21 August 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre | £5 | 16+ The film tells the story of Godelieve and

Florida, who represent thousands of women r Beyond Borders Film Festival who, without financial means or any specific education, have managed to build

Elements of Change a vibrant, independent women’s network d 1-5 September 2015 at Edinburgh Filmhouse reconstructing their communities and reconciling relationships. Rwandans cannot s The annual Beyond Borders Film Festival simply wait for other forces – godly or exhibits documentary-style films about governmental. They see themselves as the individuals and communities caught in only guarantors of a better present and conflict and change, to shed light on future. themes often overlooked by mainstream 5 September | 6-8pm | Filmhouse | media. Hosted by the Edinburgh Filmhouse, £9(7.20) | 12+

Summerhall, 1 Summerhall Edinbugh EH9 1PL www.summerhall.co.uk www.beyondbordersscotland.com Women in Conflict Women’s Peace and Summerhall The European Institute Beyond Borders Scotland Initiative Recovery Fellowship of Peace ( in partnership with the European Institute of Peace )

Beyond Borders, in partnership with the The Women’s Peace and Recovery Summerhall in Edinburgh, founder-director The European Institute of Peace (EIP) is a Beyond Borders Scotland is a Scottish based European Institute of Peace and Fellowship will discuss issues facing Robert McDowell, is Europe’s biggest new initiative at the heart of Europe with initiative dedicated to fostering peace and Edinburgh’s Summerhall, is delighted to women in conflict around the world private multi-arts centre, where visitors a global scope. The EIP is an independent greater understanding between peoples, present the Women in Conflict Initiative. over the BBIF weekend, and will feature can find theatre and gallery spaces, partner to the European Union and Europe, small nations and different cultures from The Initiative seeks to highlight and renowned facilitators, mediators and libraries, art collections. It also hosts the augmenting its global peace agenda around the world. Beyond Borders works capture the experiences and different roles gender specialists. The aim of the Demarco European Arts Foundation, with through mediation and informal dialogue. across a variety of mediums such as that women play in conflict. To that end we Fellowship is to build and support a various developing educational and The Institute pursues multi-track literature, film, the visual and performing are running a series of events in Edinburgh sustainable community of women activists research programmes, studios, laboratories, diplomacy and acts as a flexible, external arts, heritage and the rule of law. We run a and the Scottish Borders employing a range working in mediation and dialogue, or workshops, and manufacturies, following in tool in support of EU mediation efforts series of cultural and dialogue programmes of different mediums, as well as a short issues relating to gender based violence the footsteps of Joseph Beuys, Richard where the EU has limited freedom to act. both at home and abroad, culminating each residential Fellowship programme over in countries affected by the Arab Spring, Demarco and other comparable geniuses. It also serves as an operational hub, August with our summer festivals held in the Beyond Borders International Festival including Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. It is an internationalist multicultural and connects existing expertise, shares Edinburgh and at Traquair House, in the (BBIF). Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Minister village where arts, philosophy, economics knowledge and lessons on European Scottish Borders. Bringing together eight women from of Scotland and Staffan de Mistura, UN and science talk to each other. Among its mediation. conflict-affected regions, the Fellowship Special Envoy to Syria, will launch the 500 spaces are high tech start-ups and will create a network of Women in Conflict initiative during the Festival weekend. others including Scotland’s UN office. that can then be built upon in the future Summerhall is open all year round and and that will feed into the other project annually presents 800 shows and events to work conducted by EIP and Beyond Borders half a million visitors. It exists to further in the Middle East. the founding principle of the Edinburgh Festival, in Richard Demarco’s words “to heal the wounds of war through the language of the arts!”.

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The Office of Josu Juaristi Cover Image: Manal Al Dowayan: I AM a UN Officer Abaunz MEP , GUE/NGL 1 Debate Visual Arts

Beyond Borders Women, War A Mile in Their Shoes Women at War Manal Al Dowayan Beyond Conflict International Festival and Peacemaking Exhibition for Yazidi Victims of Daesh [ISIL] Photographic Exhibition I AM Revisited Demarco European Art Foundation of Literature & Thought Beyond Borders International Festival

In the tranquil setting of Traquair House Listen to a distinguished panel of The exhibition A Mile in Their Shoes shares Women at War is a collection of A chance to revisit some of the stunning First shown in April 2002, Beyond Conflict in the Scottish Borders, come and explore international speakers, including award- the stories of eight girls who fled the photographs about the challenging and photographs of Saudi Arabian Artist Manal is an exhibition of individual works by world cultures and new ideas at this winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan and conflict with Daesh (ISIL) in Northern sometimes brutal situations faced by Al Dowayan’s powerful I AM show twenty-two Scottish artists, conceived as eclectic international festival of debate, United Nations diplomat Robert Dann, Iraq. The exhibition traces the road their women in times of war. Women and girls exhibited by Beyond Borders at the Clinton a cultural dialogue between Scotland and books, art, film, music and nature. The as they discuss the important and diverse shoes have travelled by displaying their in conflict-affected countries face Presidential Library in Little Rock USA. Islam, in wake of September 11. The result, Festival offers the chance to engage with roles that women can play in conflict, in testimony and explores themes of unimaginable risks, danger and challenges, The photographs explore the tensions a truly remarkable range of images – a host of international writers, artists, warfare and in peacemaking. entrapment, separation, conformity, experiencing war as victims and survivors, arising from increasing numbers of Saudi abstract, figurative, sketchy, carefully and diplomats on some of the most escape, home, suicide and retreat. The combatants, and peacemakers. women entering the workforce. The executed, heraldic, alarming - are Following the panel debate, join First pressing issues of our time. exhibition seeks to raise awareness of the argument that women should only work in celebratory of the coming together of Minister Nicola Sturgeon, UN Special Envoy The Women at War exhibition showcases fate of thousands of women in Northern jobs “suited to their nature” is questioned disparate cultures. The Scottish political landscape takes for Syria Staffan de Mistura, Scottish the active role women play in conflicts, Iraq, and to raise support for a day center in this exhibition. The photographs center stage as the Festival welcomes three Conservatives Leader Ruth Davidson MSP, challenging the image of women as This is a permanent exhibition of the taking care of 400 escapees. All proceeds showcase Saudi women in important First Ministers, past and present. Other and Founder of Beyond Borders Scotland helpless victims. The exhibition gives a Demarco European Art Foundation and from donations made via the exhibition societal roles alongside obstructively Festival panels will discuss the tragic Mark Muller Stuart QC at the launch the moving and thought-provoking perspective Richard Demarco’s Archive in Summerhall. will go directly to the Jinda center, run by placed traditional jewellery questioning events in Srebrenica; Europe; India in the Women in Conflict Initiative and Fellowship on the experience of women during WADI Dohuk and supported by UNICEF. limitations imposed by cultural tradition 21st century; the Rise of Islamic State; as they welcome this year’s Peace and conflict, whether as survivors, fighters, that prevent Saudi women from expanding and many more. Elements of the Women Recovery Fellows from around the world This exhibition is curated by The Knitting or agents of peace. It features powerful their roles in society. in Conflict Initiative will be featured to Traquair House, and to Scotland. Circle and supported by Beyond Borders. and moving images from Middle East-based throughout the weekend. photographer Jacob Russell, Iranian photojournalist Maryam Ashrafi and American photographer Heidi Levine, as well as from the International Committee of the Red Cross Collection.

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Martha Gellhorn A Reason to Talk A String Section Women, War & Peace 12 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre | £5 |16+ Jack Klaff KunstZ, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Leen de Wilde, Reckless Sleepers Film Screening of 5-part Productions, Theatre Royal Plymouth in documentary series 21 August |7.30-9pm | Eastgate, Peebles | association with Summerhall £9 | 16+ The Screening at the Eastgate features a Q&A with Pamela Hogan The work and life of Martha Gellhorn, the Is this a story of extremes, of bicultural Metal claws into wood, with scraping The vast majority of today’s conflicts are great war correspondent who covered upbringing, or is it simply the story of all sounds that are surprisingly whispering not fought by nation states and their armies, practically every trouble-spot on earth for mothers and daughters? Sachli and soft, and through this slow destruction but rather by informal entities: gangs and War Redefined six decades, including the Spanish Civil Gholamalizad, a young Belgian actress of a startling disquisition emerges about warlords using small arms and improvised Oriana Zill de Granados - 2011 - 55min - USA War, D-Day, Dachau, Vietnam, Greenham, Iranian descent, questions her troubled female experience and the impossible weapons. With depth and complexity, the El Salvador and Mandela's inauguration. relationship with her mother. Through balancing acts we are expected to maintain, documentary series Women, War & Peace Gellhorn’s main message was, ‘War happens fusing together recordings, diary excerpts, by society, by other women, and by spotlights the stories of women in conflict War Redefined , the capstone of Women, to PEOPLE.’ She married Hemingway, memories, novels and soundscapes from ourselves. “Reduced to a single line, it zones from Bosnia to Afghanistan and War & Peace , challenges the conventional learned from him and then, journalistically, both Belgium and Iran, Sachli dives into sounds not only slight but preposterous: Colombia to Liberia, placing them at the wisdom that war and peace is a man’s outstripped him. Presidents, geniuses and her family’s history and the contradictions five women dressed like musicians in a center of an urgent dialogue about conflict domain through incisive interviews with generals sought her friendship, but she in the lives of three women, confronting string quartet sit on chairs which they and security, and reframing our leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and never lost the common touch. Scores of both her mother and grandmother in a gradually destroy using saws. In that understanding of modern warfare. Featuring seasoned survivors of war and peace today’s foremost journalists were cheered thrilling and unruly multimedia apparently pointless action the performers narrators Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, making. Interviewees include Secretary on, championed and inspired by her. Jack performance. conjured up the two most tenacious images Geena Davis and Alfre Woodard, Women, of State Hillary Clinton; Liberian peace Klaff recalls his own encounters with of womanhood.” Maddy Costa, This is War & Peace is the most comprehensive activist Leymah Gbowee; Bosnian war Gellhorn in a piece interweaving her wildest Tomorrow. global media initiative ever mounted on the crimes investigator Fadila Memisevic; and wittiest stories with her unmatchable roles of women in war and peace. and globalization expert Moisés Naím. British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2015. Narrated by Geena Davis. war reports. Women, War & Peace is distributed internationally by The Fremantle Corporation. 16 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre | £5 | 16+ 4 September | 6-7.30pm | Filmhouse | Pray the Devil Back to Hell £9(7.2) | 16+ Abigail E Disney (P) Gini Reticker (D) - 2011 - 55min - Liberia/USA Peace Unveiled Claudia M. Rizzi - 2011 - 55min - Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the Afghanistan/USA astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a When the U.S. troop surge was announced brutal civil war, and won a once in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew unimaginable peace for their shattered that the ground was being laid for peace country in 2003. Their demonstrations talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled culminated in Taylor’s exile and the rise follows three women in Afghanistan who 10, 11, 12 August | 4.30-5.25pm | 7-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30 August | 1.50- 22, 24, 27 August 8.30-9.25pm of Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen are risking their lives to make sure that Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre | 3.05pm | Summerhall: Cairns Lecture | *24 August 10-10.55am Johnson Sirleaf. Inspiring and uplifting, women’s rights don’t get traded away in £5 | 12+ £10(8) | 12+ *25 August 1-1.55pm & 6.10-7.05pm | Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a compelling the deal. Narrated by Tilda Swinton. Summerhall: Main Hall | £12(10) | 14+ example of how grassroots activism can 17 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: Red alter the history of nations. Lecture Theatre | £5 | 16+ Summerhall is hosting a fantastic variety of performances, exhibitions and events throughout August, please visit their website to find out more.

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