29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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A Bloody Taboo
A Bloody Taboo
A Bloody Taboo
A Bloody Taboo

A Bloody Taboo

Sybilla Patrizia / Japan, Austria / 2021 / European Premiere / 14 min.


synopsis

Despite forming a natural part of the life of half the world’s population, menstruation is still a taboo in many countries. The film A Bloody Taboo shows just how stigmatized it is in Japan. The intimate testimonies of a large sample of women reveal that the unwillingness of the patriarchal society to lead an open dialogue about the monthly menstruation is just a symptom of a bigger problem that is gender discrimination.

biography

Sybilla Patrizia is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker. At the centre of her focus are current political, social, and cultural topics. Her works, exhibited in galleries all over the world, capture the umbrella revolution in Hong Kong, the oppression of the Tibetan diaspora in the north of India or the cult of cuteness in Japanese mainstream culture.

more about film

director: Sybilla Patrizia
producer: Sybilla Patrizia, Marina Yoshimura
photography: Sybilla Patrizia
editing: Sybilla Patrizia
music: Nobuyoshi Kobayashi
sound: Jayce Ong

Film at festival

premiere type:European Premiere
festival edition:2021
section:Short Joy
language:Japanese
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Sybilla Patrizia
original title:生理というタブー
country:Japan, Austria
year:2021
running time:14 min.

Section


Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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