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Women’s Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival

A collection of voices from women of all faiths living in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim women living as minorities around the world that fills the void in information created by traditional news, media and art sources. The films competed for cash prizes of $31,000 and the opportunity to be featured in the WVN Festival in Los Angeles, March 17-19, 2011. See the winners here.

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Muslimah Q
By: Christina Clare / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 37

(2010) A young Muslim woman recounts her experience converting to Islam and coming out of the...

Documentary
Tabu
By: Parang Khezri / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 47

(2010) The fictional story of a girl in Iran who is facing with masses of "SHOULD NOTs"

Finalists
Post Violence
By: Afrooz Nasersharif / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 36

(2010) Despite violence against women all around the word, their life continues powerful and...

Experimental
Half Value Life
By: Alka Sadat / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 70

(2009) Marya Bashir, an Afghan female public prosecutor from Herat province, deals with criminals,...

Documentary
The Nonsense
By: Noha Redwan / Egypt
OOOOC Ratings: 20

"The colorless yellow flowers sleep furiously"... The individual words make sense and are arranged...

Experimental
Islak
By: Zumrut Cavusoglu / Turkey
OOOOC Ratings: 245

(2008) A young woman in Turkey is forbidden to enter the University because she wears a headscarf....

Fiction
Agony: Never Ending
By: Negar Behbahani / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 381

(2009) A tradition depicted by the endless rotation of the wheels in which human beings, and here...

Experimental
For Sogand
By: Mostafa Shaban / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 36

(2010) Leila is a single Iranian mother. She works as a welder atop industrial buildings in Iran....

Documentary
The Branded Girls
By: Bijoyeta Das / Bangladesh
OOOOC Ratings: 3772

(2010) In, Bangladesh, garment girls work in sweatshops producing clothing for the world's top...

Documentary
A Day of My Life
By: Zahra Mosawi / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 90

(2010) An Afghan woman lives in a small village in Iran. Her husband was deported back to...

Documentary
We Live in the 21st Century!
By: Hilda Hashempour / Canada
OOOO Ratings: 46

(2007) Women discuss discrimination against women all around the world.

Experimental
Women in Hell
By: Cyrus Omoomian / Iran
OOC  Ratings: 14

(2008) Inequality, poverty and injustice affects the lives of women in Tehran: Women who are the...

Documentary
Living With Stones
By: Khaled Hasan / Bangladesh
OOOOO Ratings: 5647

(2010) This story is about a hard working community of stone crushers in Jaflong, where majority of...

Documentary
Pink
By: Rachel Monosov / Israel
OOO  Ratings: 9

(2008) The Video art "Pink" deals with questions of sexuality and exposure. Israeli Artist Rachel...

Experimental
The Path to Follow
By: Nazifa Zakizadu / Afghanistan
OOOC Ratings: 4

(2010) Young Afghan girls gain confidence through a local Tae Kwon Do class.

Documentary
The Sound of the Footstep
By: Mariam Nabil Kamal / Afghanistan
OOC  Ratings: 10

(2010) Ali Abad Rehabilitation Centre is a unique experience. Here, disabled people make artificial...

Documentary
Hilla
By: Badrul Hasan Mahmud / Bangladesh
OOOOC Ratings: 56

(2007) After a husband utters "DIVORCE" three times in a row to his wife the Sharia court decides...

Fiction
Spring ‘89
By: Ayten Amin / Egypt
OOOOC Ratings: 95

17-year-olds Camelia and Sarah in the last spring of the 80s....their last days of innocence.

Fiction
I… Am a Woman
By: Sheherzad Kaleem / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 171

(2008) A radical, Karachi-based theater group (Tehrik-e-Niswan), is storming the streets of...

Documentary
Fereshteh
By: Aisha K / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 71

(2009) Fereshteh Zahidi, an Iranian documentary maker, returns to the USA after a hiatus of nine...

Fiction
Sunglasses
By: Mustafa Kia / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 99

(2009) A young Afghan woman's desire to buy sunglasses despite the conflict between traditional...

Fiction
Nour
By: Mona Makram / Egypt
OOOC Ratings: 21

(2006) A a real-life interview with, Eman, a woman who is living with HIV/AIDS told through a...

Fiction
My Life Sun
By: Mandana Rasouli / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 104

(2010) A Persian girl sacrifices her education and her youth to take care of her younger brother....

Fiction
The Journey
By: Ananya Chakroborti / Bangladesh
OOOC Ratings: 2

(2009) Seven girls, all survivors of trafficking, are released from a shelter home...

Documentary
New Horizons
By: Aref Mohammadi / Iran
OOOC Ratings: 4

Zahra’s interest in repairing vehicles can be traced to her childhood, when she accompanied her...

Documentary
Breaking the Silence
By: Ammar Basha / Yemen
OOOOC Ratings: 33

The video chronicles the lives and injustices against the Akhdam women in Yemen. The 'Akhdam' ,...

Documentary
Anisah
By: Riska Indriaswari / Indonesia
OOOOC Ratings: 125

Anisah is an Acehnese woman who was assigned to be the first woman subdistrict head in Plimbang. It...

Documentary
Value of Women?
By: S. Ali Mousavi Azad & S. Es'haq Husseini / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 192

Women living in the Islamic society of Afghanistan are not content with their situation and lack of...

Documentary
In Limbo: Kashmir’s Half Widows
By: WAVE India / India
OOOO Ratings: 5

(2010) Human rights lawyer Lebul Nisa shares the plight of numerous 'half-widows' in Kashmir -...

Documentary
In the Morning
By: Danielle Lurie / USA
OOOO Ratings: 43

(2005) When a young Turkish girl is raped, the responsibility of restoring her family's lost honor...

Fiction
Stoning Women
By: Hejer Charf / Canada
OOOOC Ratings: 43

(2010) You who stone Women. You will burn in Hell. Translation of the Quran quotation read by the...

Experimental
You Can Dream: Stories of Moroccan Women Who Do
By: Cortney Healy / Morocco
OOOOC Ratings: 179

Six profiles of positive female role models from Morocco's rural countryside

Documentary
Again Life
By: Hassan Fazeli / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 263

(2009) An Afghan woman who has husband and a kid loses her leg in mine explosion. After this...

Fiction
Sittana
By: Gihan Eltahir / Sudan
OOOOC Ratings: 66

(2010) Sittana is an 83 years old Sudanese female artist used to living a rather unconventional...

Documentary
Aseer Shahzadi
By: Sheema Kermani / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 577

(2002) Based on a poem by feminist Urdu poetess Fahmida Riaz the short film exposes the age old...

Experimental
For All Women
By: Gamal Ferhdi / Indonesia
OOOOC Ratings: 43

(2010) Sinta Nuriyah, a first lady on wheelchair, who struggle for woman's rights and marginalized...

Documentary
The Sweet Melody of Politics
By: Mona Haidari / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 122

(2009) A short documentary about the life of a female Afghan singer who wants to participate in the...

Documentary
Like a Bird in a Cage
By: Guliz Saglam / Turkey
OOOOC Ratings: 888

(2009) Documents the resistance of Emine Arslan who was fired from the Desa Sefaköy factory and...

Documentary
I Accept I Accept I Accept
By: Sanaa Iftikhar / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 240

(2007) An experimental art film which has a feel of a documentary based on a true story from a...

Experimental
Avant-Propos
By: Susana Casares / Tunisia
OOOOC Ratings: 80

(2007) Avant/Propos is a dialogue between two territories: the one of dreams and the one of real...

Documentary
Menna
By: Ashley Zahorian / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 41

(2010) In this tongue-in-cheek comedy of errors, Menna (Menna Youssef) is the typical young,...

Fiction
Somaye
By: Mostafa Heravi / Netherlands
OOOO Ratings: 28

(2009) Women and freedom.

Experimental
Fashioning Faith
By: Yasmin Moll / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 60

(2009) Muslim clothing designers in New York City struggle to combine high fashion with a high...

Documentary
Voice of a Woman Living with HIV
By: Malaysian AIDS Council / Malaysia
OOOOC Ratings: 8

(2009) Lela is a Muslim and she is living with HIV. She is a single mother with 4 children. She was...

Documentary
The Molky Way
By: Franc Planas / Iran
OOOO Ratings: 7

(2009) Mrs. Molky is a 73 year old Iranian woman and a widow for 14 years now. She lives alone in a...

Documentary
Inscriptions in the Rosewater
By: Salah Elmur / Sudan
OOOOC Ratings: 106

(2009) Nubian women in north Sudan plaster their houses in a ceremonial atmosphere. The process...

Documentary
We Are Postmodern
By: Alka Sadat / Afghanistan
OOOO Ratings: 44

A 14-years-old girl begs for money on the street with her mother. A boy about the same age gives...

Fiction
Maria
By: Afiq Deen / Malaysia
OOOOC Ratings: 56

(2010) Maria is born with the ability to absorb people's emotions so she tends to people's unwanted...

Student
It is Written
By: Mostafa Heravi / Netherlands
OOOOC Ratings: 49

(2006) A woman in chador passionately dances to ancient Persian music. In Iran women are not...

Experimental
A, B, C ...
By: Mahbooba Ibrahimi / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 14

A 15-year old disabled girl in Afghanistan has a burning desire to learn. Education is not readily...

Documentary
1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim
By: Anida Yoeu Ali / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 44

(2010) A poet, dancer, angel and prisoner converge with community to intervene against racial...

Experimental
Breast Cancer in Qatar - Overcoming Cultural Boundaries
By: Zainab Sultan & Thouria Mahmoud / Qatar
OOOOC Ratings: 94

(2010) Capturing the experiences of people directly or indirectly affected by breast cancer and how...

Student
Is This Honor?
By: Dalia Odeh / Jordan
OOOOC Ratings: 123

(2010) Shedding light on the definition of "Family Honor" and how this controversial issue affects...

Documentary
Voices of Afghanistan
By: Heather Metcalfe / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 21

(2009) Four Afghan women talk about their experiences living through war and oppression, finding...

Documentary
Beyond Belief
By: Beth Murphy / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 30

(2006) Susan Retik and Patti Quigley, two American women who lost their husbands on September 11th,...

Documentary
Sahar
By: Taj Mohammad Bakhtari / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 12

Sahar is a young girl and carpet maker. She is 14 years old. She supports her family. She goes to...

Documentary
Vulvar
By: Aischa Aimon / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 272

(2010) Vulvar (bride price) is a form of violence against women & girls which is endorsed in the...

Student
NAFAS/SIGH
By: Jamshed Kholikov / Tajikistan
OOOC Ratings: 14

(2008) She has no right to speak, her hands are tied, she is like a bird in a cage, but throw this...

Experimental
Campaign Reservation Express
By: Vandana K / India
OOOOC Ratings: 21

(2010) Vandana documents an historic event in the history of Indian democracy, when women marched...

Documentary
Whose Honour?
By: Neha Sehgal / India
OOOOC Ratings: 18

(2010) Khap Panchayats (or caste councils) seem to be condoning honour killings which have been on...

Student
Jazbaa (A Strong Will)
By: Rama Barhat / India
OOOOC Ratings: 114

(2010) Manju Khatri is no ordinary woman. She's taken on a male dominated society the only way she...

Student
Land of Dragons
By: Salam Babina Devi / India
OOOOC Ratings: 361

(2010) The state of Manipur in the north east of India has witnessed 15 years of armed conflict....

Finalists
Absent Spaces
By: Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon
OOOOC Ratings: 61

(2008) In the summer of 2006, during the continuous attacks over Lebanon, a young Lebanese artist...

Fiction
Jasmine
By: Saeed Sourati / Iran
OOOC Ratings: 19

(2010) This film is about a few major questions. Why a Muslim women can't have more than one...

Fiction
Basita
By: Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon
OOOOC Ratings: 35

(2010) It is in the intimate and family spaces where some of the darkest secrets are hidden in...

Experimental
A Garden In Shigar
By: Mahera Omar / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 1134

(2010) Nusrat, Khezran, Zakia, Asiya and Sajida are five young women from the scenic Shigar Valley...

Documentary
Carpet Drugged
By: Sayad Qasem Hussaini / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 417

Carpet Drugged explores the effects of narcotic usage by Afghan families. Many villagers have been...

Documentary
My Name Is Pat
By: Patricia Fermazi / United Arab Emirates
OOOOC Ratings: 151

(2010) "My Name is Pat" is a slice from the life of a young Filipina expatriate struggling to...

Documentary
Oppression of Hazaras in Afghanistan
By: Zareen Taj / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 120

(2008) The story of the Taliban's ethnic cleansing of the Hazara people in Afghanistan has remained...

Documentary
Crushing Stones
By: Negin Vaziri / USA
OOOO Ratings: 24

(2010) Crushing Stones represents 3 installations and performances: "CRUSHING STONES” Through...

Experimental
Ms Ma and Her Literacy Class
By: Aide et Action China / China
OOOOC Ratings: 5

(2008) Aide et Action has carried out the "Women Literacy Class and Training of Literacy Teachers"...

Documentary
Siah Gerd
By: Nadia Hossaini / Afghanistan
OOOOC Ratings: 2894

(2010) Residents of a village in Afghanistan speak out about their addiction to Opium. In...

Documentary
Alauddin’s Girls
By: Mahbooba Ibrahimi / Afghanistan
OOOO Ratings: 5

(2009) Zainab is a 15 year old girl who has been living in a Kabul orphanage since she was 8....

Documentary
Her Man
By: Ayten Amin / Egypt
OOOOC Ratings: 11

Two women waiting for a man...their man.

Fiction
Behind the Wall
By: [private] / Kyrgyzstan
OOOOC Ratings: 61

(2009) Domestic violence is very real problem that women from Kyrgyzstan and the whole of Central...

Documentary
Inside Out
By: Divya Cowasji & Shilpi Gulati / India
OOOOC Ratings: 151

The film ‘Inside Out’ was born out of the angst that even in the 21st century, in a city as...

Documentary
Grace
By: Celia Eslamieh Shomal / Netherlands
OOOOC Ratings: 17

(2010) The journey toward beauty is a symbol of exploring freedom.

Experimental
The Taxi Takes: Women and Islam
By: Vandana Sood / India
OOOOC Ratings: 11

(2009) What happens when people from different classes and faiths sit across from each other in a...

Documentary
Rebirth
By: Talieh Rohani / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 71

(2007) Rebirth is based on Frough Farokhzad's Tavalodi Digar poem. Frough (1935-1967) is widely...

Finalists
Face
By: [private] / Bosnia and Herzegovina
OOOO Ratings: 7

Face is a short experimental movie made from a performance. It is about voile as a symbol of a...

Experimental
Saturday Mothers of Turkey
By: Bijoyeta Das / Turkey
OOOOC Ratings: 484

(2010) Saturday Mothers of Turkey is a short documentary that highlights women in Turkey who are...

Documentary
Enchained
By: Syed Mohammed Hassan / Pakistan
OOOOC Ratings: 8250

(2009) "Enchained" introduces the Bheel and Kohli tribes trapped in modern day slavery in the...

Documentary
Pakistan Floods: Gulnaz’s Story
By: Save the Children / Pakistan
OOOO Ratings: 6

(2010) Gulnaz is 11 years old and had her home washed away when flash floods swept down Pakistan's...

Documentary
Niger: Djamila’s Story
By: Save the Children / Niger
OOOOC Ratings: 5

Djamila had to leave home, school and her friends to go with her mother to town to beg for food and...

Documentary
Birth of Death
By: Safoura Ahmadisatari / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 23

Baby is born. He has AIDS. Nobody does not accept this child should embrace or touch, all afraid of...

Documentary
Male and Female
By: [private] / Egypt
OOOO Ratings: 18

An old fashion thinking of an eastern man made him make bad decisions.

Student
Laila and the Garbage Man
By: Kefaya Diab / Jordan
OOOOC Ratings: 99

Laila is a neglected teen age girl at home and at school, her life changes upon unexpected...

Fiction
Roghieh
By: Alysse Stepanian / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 91

(2009) Iranian born Alysse Stepanian moved to the US shortly after the Iranian Revolution in 1979....

Experimental
Thorns and Silk
By: Paulina Tervo / West Bank
OOOOC Ratings: 118

(2009) A series of four, short, real life stories from Palestine, featuring women who work in...

Documentary
A Land Called Paradise
By: Lena Khan / USA
OOOOC Ratings: 26

In December 2007, over 2,000 Muslim Americans were asked what they would like to say to the world....

Experimental
Girl’s Talk
By: Mayye Zayed / Egypt
OOOOC Ratings: 46

Friendship can find its way in the weirdest places..

Fiction
Women in a Refugee Camp in Pakistan
By: Shereena Qazi / Pakistan
OOOO Ratings: 11

My documentary is about women living in a refugee camp named, Jalozai Camp in Pakistan. People from...

Student
The Unveiled
By: Ola Diab / Qatar
OOOOC Ratings: 11

My partner Shereena and I did this project about the controversy of wearing the veil in Muslim...

Student
Francais Langue Etrangere
By: Kartik Singh / France
OOOOC Ratings: 14

In a 'French for foreigners' course,a heated debate arises between two Muslim women over the right...

Fiction
Feminin Masculin
By: Sadaf Foroughi / Iran
OOOOC Ratings: 85

In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has...

Documentary
A Call at Night
By: [private] / Gaza
OOOOC Ratings: 31

A Call at Night explores the story of a rape victim in Gaza and how her family and society dealt...

Documentary