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STUNTWOMEN

CASCADEUSES

By Elena AVDIJA

ANDANA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Female director - Completed 2022

Stuntwomen portrays three women stunts in chan- ging times and offers a look at how relationships of power and hierarchy between genders are an- chored in bodies and shape in the world of cinema.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Female director, Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- FRENCH, ENGLISH, SWISS-GERMAN
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Elena AVDIJA
- Producer(s)
- Marie-Lou PAHUD (BANDE À PART FILMS), Agnieszka RAMU (BANDE À PART FILMS)
- Synopsis
- STUNTWOMEN portrays three women stunts in changing times and offers a look at how relationships of power and hierarchy between genders are anchored in bodies and shape in the world of cinema.
  
  The #metoo movement initiated in Hollywood in 2017 offers a new momentum to the denunciations of sexist relations specific to the film industry. However, the cinematographic representations of women are too entrenched to change quickly: women’s roles in action cinema are mostly victims. The camera focuses on cuts, sexual mutilation, blood, crying. But who carries the weight of this exalted violence? Behind the characters on the screen, who is the physical person who jumps under a car to escape a killer ?