Up to G-Cup – Now Streaming on Docuseek
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81 min. | Subtitled
A film by Jacqueline van Vugt
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In Up to G-Cup, women shop for bras in a world dominated by war, men, and faith. Their mothers and grandmothers choose what suits their bodies best as the film powerfully demonstrates self-determination, sensitivity, sensuality and sexuality.
Northern Iraq's first lingerie store not only sells bras but also acts as a hang out where women share stories about love, sex, shame and war. Women who have become alienated from their own bodies through oppression, war wounds and a conservative morality, here find sensuality again in the fitting rooms.
It appears that female sexuality in public is still too controversial for many Kurds. "A billboard of a woman in lingerie is not possible," say the owners of the mall,
yet the women we meet are remarkably open. They need to be among each other, too, away from the all-important family. At the same time, war and oppression are never far away, not even in the lingerie business, the women have so many scars on their souls.
We see women who have lost relatives, who experienced war and have lo live with trauma, women who are oppressed by men and by their own mothers. In the lingerie-shop we meet these women who are not allowed to show a bare leg. And yet they go on, and they have fun at the store.
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Up to G-Cup, from First Hand Films, an award-winning international sales and distribution company, is streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.
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