Wir zeigen im Rahmen der Vorbereitungen zur diesjährigen Demonstration zum Feministischen Kampftag am 11.03.2017 eine Reihe von feministischen Filmen. Den Auftakt begehen wir mit dem Film Vessel. Dieser widmet sich der Initiative »Woman on Waves«, die sichere Abtreibungen auf dem Meer durchführt.
Datum: 18. Januar 2017
Beginn: 19:30
Ort: Meuterei (Zollschuppenstraße 1, Leipzig)
Es gibt die Möglichkeit, nach dem Film noch in gemütlicher Runde zu diskutieren.
Der Eintritt ist frei.
About the movie:
Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea, and an unlikely
idea. Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created by
anti-abortion law around the world, felt compelled to challenge this.
Her method: to provide abortions on a ship in offshore waters.
Her project, Women on Waves, begins as flawed spectacle, a media frenzy,
faced with governmental, religious, and military blockades. But with
each setback comes a more refined mission, until Rebecca has the
revelation that she can use new technologies to bypass law – and train
women to give themselves safe abortions using WHO-sanctioned protocols
with pills.
We witness the creation of an underground network of emboldened,
informed activists, working at the cutting edge of global reproductive
rights, who trust women to handle abortion themselves. Vessel is
Rebecca’s story: one of a woman who heard and answered a calling, and
transformed a wildly improbable idea into a global movement.
Vessel premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival in 2014, winning
the Audience Award for Documentary in Competition and a Special Jury
Award for Political Courage. The film was released theatrically in New
York, and went on to screen at over 230 festivals and community
screenings worldwide. Additional awards include the inaugural Peter
Wintonick Award from Sheffield DocFest, the Adrienne Shelly Excellence
in Filmmaking Award, the Moving Mountains Honorable Mention from
Mountainfilm in Telluride, the Calgary Underground Audience Choice
Honorable Mention, and the SIMA Lens to Action Jury Award. Vessel is
available on Netflix streaming in 30 countries, and across international
video-on-demand platforms.