Sunday, March 28, 2021

2021 CIFFF Post-Secondary Documentary Selections


Note: Filmfreeway films accessible with user name rlmurray@eiu.edu and pw: nib8.pet

First Place 

Femme Fatale 

Meghan McArdle 

Ireland 

Access: https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/17942935 



 How fashion has been used as a catalyst for feminism in the last century.


Second Place

I Call it Home 


Leila Ahang 

Islamic Republic of Iran 

Access: https://filmfreeway.com/submissions/17850058 


This experimental abstract animation, “I Call It Home,” demonstrates two distinct worlds for a migrant who is born and lives far from her real home. One world is where she was born. It is like somewhere humans live before birth, the womb. This is growing and the spirit is blown into it. The spirit of the human is floating like a fish in the water. For her, the first world is selected as a home to settle down. But slowly she understands the real home is somewhere else. This is another world out of her mother's womb, a strange and frightening place. All things are dark and against her. So she has to struggle to overcome them. It takes time but finally she feels tranquility and starts to live in a new world like a newborn baby.


Third Place

My Mother’s Pain 


Juliana Erazo 

Columbia 

https://vimeo.com/455193418 

pw: eddmm 


This animated documentary and visual essay, tells the story of three generations of mothers and daughters in the same family. Their struggles and growth and how they worked to make their children's life better than their own.

Honorable Mention

Tishala: Nothing to Lose 


Brian Wachira 

Kenya 

https://youtu.be/lBtXD2n5lak 


The animation is about Tishala, a girl who lives in fear of being subjected to Female Genital Mutilation. She wishes what befell her friends does not befall her. She wants girls to grow up normal.

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