Special Events

TUEBINGEN

Cinema Museum, Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 8:00 pm
Opening of the Film Festival with „Wadjda“
introduced by the producer, Roman Paul, who will talk about the film shooting conditions in Saudia Arabia that caused a worldwide sensation.

Following the film, around 10:30 pm, opening celebration at the restaurant „Die Kelter“

Cinema Museum, Sunday, November 24, 2013

Thematic Day on Forced Prostitution and Prostitution out of Poverty

TERRE DES FEMMES Exhibition in the foyer
„Without Glitter and Glamour — Trafficking of Women and Prostitution in the Age of Globalization

6:00 pm
Roundtable Conversation on the topic of Forced Prostitution and Prostitution out of Poverty
The 10-year-old legislation concerning prostitution in Germany is currently a hot topic for the German media. It is evident that it is a topic which all of society must come to terms with. How to deal with prostitution is also hotly discussed throughout Europe, in the media as well as in parliaments. Experts have been invited to the roundtable conversation who will report from experience the different perspectives they have gained through their activism in Germany as well as in Eastern Europe and Africa.

Podium participants:
Sabine Constabel (social worker from Stuttgart), Detective Superintendant Helmut Sporer (Augsburg Criminal Police Office), Retired Detective Chief Superintendant Manfred Paulus (Prevention Task Force Eastern Europe), Lukas Roegler, film-maker of “Ware Frau“ (Woman for Sale). Free admission.

With support from the ZONTA Club Tuebingen.

International Day: “NO to Violence against Women“
Films about violence-free matriarchal cultures and about structural violence against women.
In cooperation with BAF.

4:00 pm Töchter der Göttin (Daughters of the Goddess)
A view into the traditional matriarchal culture of the Mosuo in China, presented by the film-maker Petra Spamer-Riether
Followed by the short film Initiation of Girls among the Mosuo with live commentary by film-maker Daniela Parr about her documentary which was shot in 2012

6:00 pm The Mosuo Sisters
A moving documentary about two sisters of the Mosuo ethnic group and their search for self-realization in the tension between modern Chinese metropolitan life and their identity as matriarchal Mosuo women.
Petra Spamer-Riether and Daniela Parr present as experts

6:00 pm Made in Ash
Prostitution out of Poverty on the Czech-German border
Retired Detective Chief Superintendant Manfred Paulus present as expert

8:30 pm The Patience Stone
A woman’s fate in Afghanistan
Collin Schubert present as expert in Women’s Rights in Islamic Societies.

8:30 pm 90 Minutes
Brutal forms of domestic violence in Norway

Landestheater Tuebingen (BadenWuerttemberg Theater Tuebingen)
November 16 and 29, 2013

“Three Kingdoms“ a stage drama by Simon Stephens
The complicated network of internationally organized trafficking of women, from Estonia via Hamburg to England, becomes the focus of a criminal case.

Further information at www.landestheater-tuebingen.de

ROTTENBURG

Cinema Waldhorn, Thursday, November 21, 8:00 pm
Festival opening, Rottenburg

The Artist and the Model
Director and Oscar winner Fernando Trueba present

HERRENBERG

In cooperation with the Commissioner for Gender Equality of the City of Herrenberg

KOKI HERRENBERG, (Municipal Cinema of Herrenberg)
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

6:00 pm Zeit der Namenlosen (The Time of the Nameless) by Marion Pfeiffer
Human trafficking and forced prostitution are shockingly current in Germany. Due to the legal situation established in 2002, pimps have an easy time of it.

8:00 pm Blancanieves by Pablo Berger