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Ladies Only

26th(2021) Wide Angle

Urbanization · True Story · Women  

  • CountryGermany/India
  • Production Year2021
  • Running Time82min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorB&W
Program Note
During the morning commute, trains in Mumbai, India, are like trains from hell. As if they’re the last trains on earth, hordes of people jump in through the closing doors, while those unable to get in hang onto the doors. Thankfully, one of the cars is for women only—it is another India within India, a micro universe of women. Rebana Liz John takes her camera into this car and asks the passengers: "What makes you angry?" Various women, including a housewife, a punk girl, a weightlifter, and a college student, unravel their thoughts on their dreams and freedom. As the voices of urban Indian women vividly come alive in this black-and-white film, light and shadow, noises and movements, breezes and landscape made by the speedily moving train combine with everchanging faces, creating unexpected cinematic moments that almost seem to have been directed. (KANG Sowon)
Director
Director
Rebana Liz JOHN
Rebana John is an artist-filmmaker from Mumbai, India. Filmmaking became her primary medium while studying at the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. Her extensive experience includes work as an assistant artist, a filmmaker, and a video team manager. She completed the Post-Graduate Program in Film/Media Art at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. Her short films, which include both fiction and documentary works, The Fortunate Son (2007), Lamentations (2008), Echoes (2008), and Pasts:Paths (2017), illustrate her experimentations in direction and documentary practices, which reframe established approaches and formats. The short, Ships Outside My Window (2018), has been shown at numerous film festivals, and won the Best Student Documentary Award at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival—India‘s only independent film festival—held in Delhi.
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Credit
  • Director Rebana Liz JOHN 레바나 리즈 존
  • Cinematography Milann Tress JOHN
  • Sound Navya SAH, Ankita PURKAYASTHA, Tim ELZER
  • Music Jin JIM, Lucas PIZZINI
  • Production Company Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
    Germany
    Peter-Welter-Platz 2
    dilger@khm.de

    Film und Medien Stiftung NRW