AWFJ Women On Film – Releasing July 15 and 17, 2009
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.
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Off Jackson Avenue – Goltzius Productions, 80 mins., limited
- The Way We Get By – Int’l Film Circuit, 84 mins., limited