Projection - Role and status of women worldwide - The Millenium Festival

The Millenium Festival

Several sessions are organized for each movie and you can already find the complete selection on the Millenium Festival website
The Millenium Festival organized as every year, festival composed by consists documentaries carefully selected and meet the fundamental issues of our century. The woman and her condition is once again a major topic discussed at the festival.
We selected five films treating, about different angles, the role and status of women worldwide
Through this selection, you can discover a small part of the proposed program.

Samedi 21 mars 21:30-23:00 | Cinéma Aventure - Rue des Fripiers, 57 1000 Bruxelles

ANA ANA by Corinne van Egeraat, Petr Lom

This is a cinematic poem about four young, creative, Egyptian women. Most of the material is filmed by the characters themselves, who worked with the film's directors in a process of collaboration and mentorship over a course of two years. The four main characters find creative ways to express what is hidden within their hearts : speaking of their dreams and desires in an extraordinarily open and intimate way, and using metaphors, and cinematic storytelling to transform the every-day struggles of their lives into the sublime.

Several sessions are organized for each movie and you can already find the complete selection on the Millenium Festival website

Dimanche 22 mars 18:30-20:00 | Cinéma Galeries - Galerie de la Reine 26 1000 Bruxelles

Two Raging Grannies by Håvard Bustnes

Raging Grannies est un documentaire touchant qui fait réfléchir et remet en question la nécessité de toujours devoir acheter plus, de consommer, d'amasser… le tout pour la croissance économique. Alliant courage, humour, une amitié de longue date et un enthousiasme pour la vie, Shirley et Hinda visitent bourgades et villes américaines pour soulever la question auprès de tous ceux qu'elles rencontrent, qu'ils soient sans-abri, étudiants universitaires, économistes ou magnats de Wall Street, afin de remettre en question la durabilité d'un système de croissance perpétuelle et de démontrer qu'il n'est jamais trop tard pour essayer de changer les choses soi-même

Dimanche 22 mars 18:30-20:00 | Cinéma Galeries - Galerie de la Reine 26 1000 Bruxelles

Two Raging Grannies by Håvard Bustnes

Raging Grannies est un documentaire touchant qui fait réfléchir et remet en question la nécessité de toujours devoir acheter plus, de consommer, d'amasser… le tout pour la croissance économique. Alliant courage, humour, une amitié de longue date et un enthousiasme pour la vie, Shirley et Hinda visitent bourgades et villes américaines pour soulever la question auprès de tous ceux qu'elles rencontrent, qu'ils soient sans-abri, étudiants universitaires, économistes ou magnats de Wall Street, afin de remettre en question la durabilité d'un système de croissance perpétuelle et de démontrer qu'il n'est jamais trop tard pour essayer de changer les choses soi-même

Dimanche 22 mars 21:00-22:30 | Cinéma Aventure - Rue des Fripiers 57 1000 Bruxelles

With or Without You by Hyuckjee Park

Maggi and Chunhee have lived under the same roof for 45 years as both wives of one man. Now they are old and approaching the end of their extraordinary intertwined lives. Maggi, a 88-year-old woman, is in big trouble. She gets older and weaker everyday. The film follows the daily life of the two women in the Korean countryside. It intensively captures their intimate and very special relationship, one in which they share night and day side by side.

Lundi 23 mars 17:00-18:00 | Cinéma Aventure - Rue des Fripiers 57 1000 Bruxelles

Candles in the wind by Kavita Bahl, Nandan Saxena

The Punjab, also called "Land of Five Rivers", is the most fertile region in India. Yet, farmers are no longer able to provide for themselves and go increasingly into debt because multinational companies regulate all the pricing policies and control seeds and pesticides. Candle in the Wind witnesses the silent but nevertheless persistent struggle of women who try to re-negotiate the laws that deprive them of their lands.

Lundi 23 mars 18:30-19:30 | CIVA - Rue de l'Ermitage 55 1050 Bruxelles

The Storm Makers par Guillaume Suon

Aya is a former slave. At the age of 16, the young Cambodian peasant was sold to a Malaysian recruitment agency to work as a maid. There she was beaten, abused and deprived without receiving a salary. Now back in village, she is just as poor as when she left. Dishonoured and traumatised, what is left of her humanity ? The film traces modern-day slavery in Cambodia by disclosing the fate of this young woman and following, in parallel, the daily lives of two human traffickers, a local recruiter and the head of an agency. Cambodian people call these traffickers "Mey Kechol" : The Storm Makers. From the impoverished remote villages to the bustling urban centre of Phnom Penh, The Storm Makers reveals a unique perspective on the exploitation of Cambodia's rural population. The film raises an unsettling question : what is the price of a young peasant's life in contemporary Cambodian society ?