Creations

Through its dreamy landscape of a busy metropolis, this documentary-style drama pinpoints and shades the ‘light’ of three working women. Struggling to make ends meet, these characters try to find the light among each other no matter how hard it is to imagine.

Podcasts are in boom and have become essential platforms for expression and powerful tools for activism. From the southern shores of the Mediterranean, three feminist podcasts stand out: Masâha, Femmes en Sursis : de l’emprise au féminicide, and Boo 3al Taboo. Each of these projects amplifies women’s voices, shedding light on their struggles and providing a critical space for reflection. Deconstructing patriarchal structures, they explore intimate experiences and offer insight on how to reshape our world.

In Bologna, the communication agency Comunicattive is shaking up the norms of visual representation. With its project Fotonica, it has created an image bank to showcase the diversity of bodies and identities. The goal? To free media, institutions, and communication campaigns from sexist, racist, ableist, and homophobic, lesbophobic, and transphobic stereotypes, and to build inclusive and authentic narratives.

Emna Mrabet is a lecturer in the cinema department of Paris 8 University, where her teaching focuses on the aesthetics of cinema, documentary production, and film analysis. The emphasis of her research is on the question of identity among filmmakers with a background of immigration from North Africa, particularly in the films of Tunisian female directors. Together with Ons Kammoun, professor and researcher in cinema in Tunis, she is currently organizing a conference in Tunis on June 13-14 on “Gender and emancipation in Arab cinema.”

Despite its popular and… anti-fascist origins, the high mass of international cinema which is the Cannes Film Festival has become utterly inaccessible. This is what around ten young women from the region confided to our journalist. On the other side of the barricades, these women from the Côte d'Azur struggle to find their place in their own city, faced with the people “from above”: the “others,” the movie stars, models, actresses, influencers. A Medfeminiswiya report.

Women and women’s resilience were at the forefront of the fourth edition of the Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival, which made a sensational comeback after several years of absence. A Medfeminiswiya report.

The show Bab Rezek (Doors of Livelihood), broadcast on Tunisia’s El Watania 1 television channel, is one of this year’s soap operas that addresses the suffering of Tunisian women working in agriculture and fields.

“Hello to the newlyweds, we’ve brought you sweets on a tray. Tell us, how did that first night go? Show us the proof of honor.” It is with this sentence that a mother congratulates her daughter on her marriage in front of the family and the whole village, demanding proof of the bride’s “honor”..

Egyptian soap operas offered us a hefty meal of major and recurring women’s issues this year, ranging from surrogacy to the same old marital infidelities. The shows treat these issues that revolve around women’s lives and rights in sometimes clever, sometimes unjust ways.

The series Fallujah, Part Two of which was broadcast on Tunisian channel Elhiwar Ettounsi, answers outstanding questions from Part One such as the outcome of the case of the rape of the minor student Rahma.