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Quest for honor raging Sun, raging Sky (Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo)
IRAQ / KURDISTAN / USA
Photographer Mary Ann Smothers Bruni’s wrenching debut documentary
MEXICO
This conclusion to a trilogy by Mexican experimental filmmaker Julián
Director:
Quest for Honor follows the small number of women’s rights advocates at The
Director: Julián Hernández Hernández juxtaposes scenes of a present-day world in black and white
Mary Ann Smothers Bruni
Women’s Media Center in Iraqi Kurdistan who work tirelessly to investigate
Executive Producer: Daniel Alonso with dreamy color tableaux set in a mythological place inhabited by
Executive Producers: Philip Knox
so-called honor killings and to educate the Kurds, as well as the global com-
heroes. Two young men, Ryo and Kieri, have a joyful encounter in a
Key, Sarah Elizabeth Bruni,
munity, about the continued prevalence of the practice – whereby women who
Producer: Roberto Fiesco
rundown cinema. But when the jealous Tari intervenes and abducts Ryo,
Frances Farenthold
have been marked as immoral by their husbands or blood relatives are killed to
Screenwriter: Julián Hernández
the three move into another dimension. With the guidance of a goddess
MS: A to Z
Producer: Lawrence Taub
restore their families’ good names.
Cinematographer: Alejandro Cantú
Cinematographer: Dane Lawing
Editor:
named Corazón del Cielo (Heaven’s Heart), Kieri goes in search for his
MS: A to Z
Emiliano Arenales Osorio
il Smothers Bruni looks at the reasons so many women’s bodies are dumped in
love, eventually finding him in the cave where Tari has left him – but
il
Editors: Timothy K. Smith, fields, over ledges, and along roadsides despite a Kurdistani law explicitly stat-
Cast: Jorge Becerra, Javier Oliván,
Gabriel Ernest Rhodes,
Guillermo Villegas, Giovanna Zacarías,
death has preceded his rescue. Out of selfless love, Kieri offers his own
E F ing, for the disturbingly obvious record, that “killing a woman is killing a human
Deborah Dickson
Joaquín Rodríguez
life in exchange for the return of Ryo’s – an act the gods judge worthy
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being.” While zooming in on the immediate problems posed by a number of
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cases the Media Center has undertaken, Smothers Bruni also widens her focus
to consider the issue worldwide. After all, we learn, “Domestic violence kills
Though he shuns all dialogue, the sheer strength of his faith in ravishing
four women every day in the USA.” In short, the filmmaker asks us not only to
sensuality allows Hernández to create real intimacy between richly
MarY ann SMoThErS Bruni confront the murder of mothers, daughters, and wives in Kurdistan but also to
Mary Ann Smothers Bruni’s work on
JuLiÁn hErnÁnDEz depicted characters whose stunning physical beauty might otherwise
turn the mirror upon our own cultures and stop the abuse of women globally.
Kurdish Iraq has been exhibited in
Avant-garde director Julián Hernández
seem superficial. Remarkable cinematography by Alejandro Cantú
Bhutan, Mumbai, London, and the
has been writing, editing, and
Screening with:
combines with a spare soundtrack to tell the lovers’ story in the most
United States, and her documentation
directing films for over 15 years
artful of ways. Raging Sun, Raging Sky won the prestigious Teddy for
of Texas/Mexico border culture is Sin by Silence
and is noted as one of Mexico’s top
archived at the University of Texas’s
directors in queer cinema. He has won
best feature-length gay-themed film at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival – as
USA
Benson Latin American Collection.
awards for Best Director at both the
did its 2003 predecessor in the trilogy, Broken Sky (which was preceded
Director: Olivia Klaus
Quest for Honor is her directorial
Guadalajara and Turin film festivals. in turn by A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky, Love).
Executive Producers: Marker Karahadian, Marvelle Karahadian, Lois Klaus, Byron Klaus
debut.
Producers: Olivia Klaus, Ann-Caryn Cleveland
Filmography
Cinematographer: Clark Severson
Broken Sky (2006)
Sponsored by:
oLiVia KLauS
Editor: Ann Caryn Cleveland
A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence
Olivia Klaus has been a pioneer in
2009 / color / 49 min.
the Sky, Love: Your Being Love
high-definition technology through
In her early forties, Brenda Clubin enters prison for the murder of her husband.
Will Never End (2003)
her work with Plus 8 Digital; she has
Having lost both her only child and her freedom, she finds a glimmer of hope
also worked for such networks as MTV,
upon establishing Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) in 1989. Initially
Showtime, The History Channel, and
The Food Network, and she is now
designed to help imprisoned women break the silence about domestic violence,
adjunct professor in the cinema and
the CWAA has grown to help raise public awareness of the problem and has
digital media department at Vanguard even influenced changes in the legal system. Olivia Klaus researched her candid
University. documentary over the course of seven years, interviewing Clubin and the
women to whom she became a hero for founding the first inmate-initiated and
Sponsored by:
-led group in US prison history.
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