The method used by the researcher was framing analysis method with interpretative approach type.
The research problem issued by the researcher is how is the female construction in Indonesian horror movies Arwah Goyang Karawang and Danur.
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Besides, the female figure in Danur movie is far from sensuality thing, but is more polite and feminine. There is a female construction figure in Arwah Goyang Karawang movie that shows sensuality side. It's not just a regional phenomenon but also global," Riahi told AFP.īut Arab cinema appears to be faring better than Hollywood, where out of the 250 biggest films released last year only 18 percent were directed by women.Ī 2019 study by Northwestern University in Doha, for example, found that around 50 percent of all film-makers in the Arab world were women.This research discuss the female construction on Indonesian horror movies Arwah Goyang Karawang and Danur. "For women in Arab cinema, the number of directors for example is always less than men. Saied himself sacked the government and seized wide-ranging powers on July 25 citing an "imminent threat" to the country. from coups to revolutions to what we're currently experiencing under (President) Kais Saied," the director in her mid-thirties said. Tunisian screenwriter and director Fatma Riahi is in the early stages of a long feature, "My Father Killed Bourguiba", that attempts "to tell the history of Tunisia in the last 30 years through a biographical and personal narrative".įocused on her father, the documentary follows his role in a plan to overthrow Habib Bourguiba's regime in a 1987 military coup and its current reverberations after the 2011 revolution that toppled his successor Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. This "balloons the budget and we're forced to partner up with other co-producers to get funding", she said. She said the biggest challenge for independent Arab film-makers was a lack of facilities such as custom-made studios. "We want to show there are lots of other stories in Palestine besides war, destruction and the occupation," Oraidi said. despite the conditions we're living under, we wouldn't have a single film on screen," she said. "Without the personal attention of film-makers, patience and persistence. Oraidi points to independent Palestinian directors such as Hany Abu-Assad and Elia Suleiman whose films have won Oscar nominations and prizes at Cannes. "It's a meditative journey set in Galilee that tracks the daily life of residents of the village where the director hails from," said Oraidi.
Working with Palestinian-American film-maker Hind Shoufani on "They Planted Strange Trees", the international crew has been adding final touches in post-production. cannot be trivialised," she said.įor Rafia Oraidi, an independent Palestinian producer, the fractured landscape of life under Israeli occupation provides a rich tableau for narratives. "As Iraqis in general, our lives are unstable but the targeted killing of women in particular.
"Women of My Life", in which she plays one of the main characters, follows the gruesome death of a young woman suspected to have been carried out by male relatives. "What if I want to make a horror movie? I want to make what I want as long as it's of high quality." "It's like there are trends and they (international backers) want us to fit into these funding guidelines," said Ghandour.
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"We want to break free from the stereotypes that world cinema boxes us into," she said. Ghandour said that "in the last few years, a new generation has come to the fore born in the 90s and 2000s with a new direction", especially after October 2019 protests calling for the toppling of the ruling class in Iraq.