AWFJ Women On Film highlights movies made by and about women:

Wednesday, July 15

• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - Warner Bros., 153 mins
• Somers Town - Film Movement, 70 mins.

Friday, July 17

• 500 Days of Summer - Fox Searchlight - 95 mins.
• A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin) - Strand Releasing, 131 mins. - Based on the diary of the woman who struggled to survive sexual abuse in post-WW II Berlin, where conquering Soviet soldiers rampantly raped German women. ’Anonyma’ forms a liaison with a Russian soldier whom she considered to be her lover and protector–not a rapist. However, her fiancé, returning from the front, considers her to have been raped and rejects her. This harrowing tale resonates with current reports of war-related rapes in countries around the globe.
• Homecoming (2009) - Animus Films, 100 mins.
• Death in Love - Screen Media Films, 96 mins.
• Off Jackson Avenue - Goltzius Productions, 80 mins., limited
• The Way We Get By - Int’l Film Circuit, 84 mins., limited