San Francisco Documentary Festival 2022

Shorts 7: She Dares To Defy (plus Q&A)

Expired June 13, 2022 6:59 AM
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9 films in package
Seven Years
An experimental documentary short exploring grief, from the perspective of a young female filmmaker and her personal story.
(trans)-fem.inity
Do femininity and masculinity define a human being ? Today, isn't society forbidding the significance of revealing one’s singularity and preventing people from simply identifying as human kind ? The subject of transidentity raises more and more questions and triggers many debates around the definition of gender. Giovanna, Maëva and Alyx, three transgender women, help us understand the necessity to deconstruct the binary gender concept, which has been cultivating both feminine and masculine stereotypes for centuries. Oftentimes, transgender people are only accepted for they exact resemblance to “real men” and “real women”, but can we assign what constitutes a woman and a man ?
Direct Positive
No negatives. No filters. Just raw honesty, as seen through the lens of an antique camera and the stories of Milwaukee women leaders. Through interviews and the portraits taken by tintype photographer Margaret Muza, these women reveal what it takes to lead in their careers and in our communities — and why it’s so important for more women to lead today.
Closed captions available
Dreamer of a Final Theory
An Animated Conversation with the late, great theoretical physicist & Nobel Laureate, Steven Weinberg. Excerpts from interviews recorded between 2020 & 2021.
Hair
Using stop motion animation, this quirky short film examines how women's belief system around body hair begins, grows, and ultimately becomes undone. Women share the seldom told formative moments that define the rules of ‘acceptable’ body hair grooming along with their own misgivings. From their mothers’ early counsel to individual attempts at performing femininity, the social norms of body hair are easily established but not always so easily accepted.
Closed captions available
No Girls Allowed
An empowering documentary set out to inspire change by calling out toxic sexism in geek culture.
Nobody Owns Me
Through Interviews, Irina tells us about the atmosphere of her squat as well as snippets of her life. She talks about why she ended up on the street, the fact of not having wanted to need others, the family atmosphere of her squat, love and what writing her book means to her. But more than the interviews, she invites us, with Marty, the love of her life, to enter the abandoned house they occupy in order to share moments of life with the other inhabitants of the house. We are with them, for a time, to share their intimacy and their humanity, and this closeness takes us out of the clichés of the squat.
Closed captions available
The Boys Club
A Malaysian female filmmaker dreamt of making the first feature documentary for theatrical release in her country. After four years of struggles, her film premiered with glowing reviews. But soon after, she lost her job. This documentary reveals her deeply personal and harrowing filmmaking journey of enduring sexual harassment, bullying and misogyny.
She Dares to Defy Q&A

Do femininity and masculinity define a human being ? Today, isn't society forbidding the significance of revealing one’s singularity and preventing people from simply identifying as human kind ? The subject of transidentity raises more and more questions and triggers many debates around the definition of gender. Giovanna, Maëva and Alyx, three transgender women, help us understand the necessity to deconstruct the binary gender concept, which has been cultivating both feminine and masculine stereotypes for centuries. Oftentimes, transgender people are only accepted for they exact resemblance to “real men” and “real women”, but can we assign what constitutes a woman and a man ?

  • Runtime
    12 minutes
  • Country
    France
  • Director
    Rebecca Obadia
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