The Female Gaze
Moon / Mond
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 17th December
- 9.30 am
- Sree Padmanabha
Screening 2
- 20th December
- 9.15 am
- Sree
Kurdwin Ayub
Director's bio
Kurdwin Ayub
Kurdwin Ayub is an Iraqi-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter, and performance artist, born in 1990 in Iraq. Her family moved to Austria as refugees when she was a child. Ayub studied painting and animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She began directing short films in 2009 and gained recognition with her feature-length documentary "Paradies! Paradies!" (2016), which won the Best Camera prize at the Diagonale Film Festival. Her short film "Boomerang" (2018) received the Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Max Ophüls Film Festival. Ayub's fiction debut, "Sonne" (2022), won the Best First Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her latest feature, "Mond" (2024), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Award and the Europe Cinemas Label prize
Synopsis
Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters are under surveillance around the clock. They have no interest in learning to box. So why has Sarah been brought here?
Details of Cast
Florentina Holzinger as Sarah Celina Sarhan as Fatima Andria Tayeh as Nour Nagham Abu Baker as Shaima Omar AlMajali as Abdul
Details of Crew
Cinematography: Martin Dicicco Editing: Iva Radivojevic Music: Takuma Watanabe
Producer Details
Ulrich Seidl
Writer Details
Kurdwin Ayub
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