I really enjoyed this documentary and the approach to women's talk. The intimate and honest slices of life - about sex, love, marriage, female genital circumcision, intimacy, language barriers, and lingerie. I didn't think opening a lingerie store would provide so many more opportunities - for women in Kurdish camps to talk about their families and their losses as well as come together and sew lingerie for sale, for their integrity and community. I didn't think about the advertising campaign and the issues surrounding almost naked bodies in a Kurdish Autonomous region of Iraq - to think creatively about underwear and lace is to also consider that privately we all share the same needs for intimacy and sensuality regardless of religion and language. The offence, an advertising billboard also became a point for discussion and creativity. Do we really need to offer the mostly nude or naked female body to sell lingerie? Does the ad need to reveal everything to lure and entice a buyer, a bride, a mother, or a daughter? A conversation about skin became a conversation about religion as well as respect. The skin we speak from and through, clothed in community was also for one woman the skin that gave her trauma, cancer and difficulties experiencing intimacy. Her honesty and her sharing of her experience with female circumcision was also, apart from my distance, something the women shared as familiar or understanding something more about the different cultures and races that meet in the lingerie store. They weren't shocked and they didn't shame.
The women were so open and talked easily in front of the camera. The first lingerie store offered me a break from my everyday to remember women in other places and their struggles.
The women were so open and talked easily in front of the camera. The first lingerie store offered me a break from my everyday to remember women in other places and their struggles.