Women's Programme 1
Cinema 18 3.00pm-5.00pm

'A Woman's Place'
Ewa Cedarstam, Sweden, 2003, 7 mins

Sweden 2002 ; 20.000 women were raped. This short documentary focuses on five women, all of whom are rape victims. Filmmaker Ewa Cederstam went to the crime scenes, read the police files and examined the women's reports. What do these women do with their memory of the rape? And what about the places where the rapes occurred? Ewa Cederstam: 'It was vital to me that the crime scenes should be deserted. Travelling around, documenting the sites of rape, was an unpleasant experience, and along with the memories of interviewed women, it was a scary reminder about the victims of violence.'

'It Should Have Been Nice After That'
Karin Jurschick, Germany, 2000, 73 mins

'In 1974, the woman committed suicide. In 1997, I saw the man for the first time again. He was still living in the same apartment he had moved into with his wife and child 41 years ago.The apartment had remanined virtually unchanged. The man is my father...'

'20th Century Women'
Margaret Mc Auslan, Joanne King, UK, 2004, 40 mins

Eleven working class women from Glasgow and it's surroundsdescribe the reality of life in Glasgow between 1930 and 2003 including the experience of emigration...

'Discussion'
Guest Speakers: Rape Crisis Scotland
Filmmakers: Karin Jurschick, Margaret McAuslan, Joanne King