La Vie Autrement (Life Differently)

In
Do You Remember Revolution (presented at the 1997 City of Women), Loredana Bianconi interviewed four
Italian women with a revolutionary past (former members of the Red Brigades);
in her latest documentary La Vie
Autrement / Life Differently she presents four Belgian women of Moroccan
extraction, caught between two worlds, two cultures, two languages...

“Is it possible, coming
from a family of North African immigrants, being a daughter or a wife, to
invent one's life, to choose to abandon the universe of tradition, to break
with one's  family, without  necessarily forsaking your roots or
relatives?
Four portraits of women give an account of a generation who are living their
lives through their own choices. Their mothers were illiterate, but dreamed of a
university education for their daughters. They invested their hopes in their
children, but also their desires for what they lacked, and their solitudes.
Through the exercise of creation, Amina, Farida, Hayat and Madiha have found
their path to freedom. Whether it be through writing, painting, music or
theatre, each of these women offers an honourable and thoroughly convincing
account of a journey, situated in the narrow spaces separating two worlds, two
languages, two cultures. It is a journey allowing them to evolve true to
themselves; the question is having faith in what you will become.”

Organisation:
City of Women
In
collaboration with: Kinodvor
With
the support of: Istituto Italiano di Cultura