서울국제여성영화제

Polemics selects and presents critical and urgent feminist agendas along with noteworthy cinematic issues annually and arranges an intensive forum to match the screenings. This year, under the theme of “Images, Describing Resistance,” we look back on the relationship between women and images and focus on the work of several generations of female filmmakers who have long investigated the issue of recording, archiving, and representation. For women, representation and image have always been major issues and topics. In this year's session, the audience will encounter the valuable history of female creators who have recorded the truth of women, which are often pushed to the margins of society, talked about non-neutral images, and pondered extensively on the issue of reproduction. The films that contain the perspectives and concerns of female recorders will be introduced. Heiny Srour directed The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, and she became the first female Arab director to screen a film at the Cannes Film Festival. In The Silent Majority Speaks, Bani Khoshnoudi reconstructed the scenery of great resistance through images captured on-site and anonymous footage. Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson contains the multi-layered agonies as a documentary cinematographer. Director Jeong Jae-eun created The Age of Beasts through vast video archive materials, and it focuses on the reality of the violence experienced by Korean women in the 1990s. In addition, this section presents new shorts from around the world that can provide an opportunity to face the direction in which the concerns about the relationship between women and images flow in today's war, disaster, and changes in a media environment. [Programmer SON Sinae]