adminIn an interview, festival director Yvonne Jila said this year they failed to raise funding for the Bulawayo leg of the festival.
“It is unfortunate that this year we will not be coming to Bulawayo for our festival because of lack of funding.
“But we still hope that once we get funds anytime we will be coming to Bulawayo early next year,” she said.
Jila said this year they visited Binga to show a number of films.
“This year’s festival started on 5 December and ended on 7 December in Harare and managed to reach out to more than 1 000 people,” she said.
Jila said this year’s festival ran under the theme “Women with Goals.”
“We had our festival running under the theme “Women with Goals” because we want them to be achievers in life, “she said.
Jila said women film makers also commemorated 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence.
“We also encouraged people to live in peace as we commemorated the 16 days Against Gender-based Violence,” she said.
At this year’s festival they showcased films that had a lot to do with abuse and gender-based violence.
“Our theme in commemorating 16 days of Gender-based Violence was ‘From peace in the house to peace in the world’.
“Some of the films that were showcased at this year’s festival include Nyaminyami, I Want a Wedding dress and Peretera Maneta,” she said
Jila said Nyaminyami was a film about a woman who suffered a lot from gender-based violence and poverty and she had little or no powers to challenge her husband.
I Want a Wedding Dress is about HIV and Aids. This film shows how most women are sexually exploited by men as they have got little or no power to control the family.
Peretera Maneta was one of the most famous films in Binga as it was about a head-master who was abusing a school child and a concerned teacher exposed the matter.
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