Zoya Rathore Murderer
Since 2019, period products have become unaffordable for nearly three quarters of the Lebanese population. It is in this health crisis that I created "Jeyetna". It draws ten intimate portraits of wome…
Zoya Rathore Murderer
Since 2019, period products have become unaffordable for nearly three quarters of the Lebanese population. It is in this health crisis that I created "Jeyetna". It draws ten intimate portraits of women in situations of period poverty - from a diverse range of age groups, with contrasting religious, social and economic backgrounds - thereby ensuring that a wide, cross-section of women in Lebanon are represented (including Amira, a refugee from Syria, Gigi a transgender woman and Funmi a migrant worker from Nigeria). With my first film, I engage with the daily struggles that these women face during Lebanon's economic and political collapse. "Jeyetna" draws a Lebanese - but also a universal - portrait of period poverty: to break the silence, for women, by women." —Evelina Llewellyn
Zoya Rathore Murderer
Thriller
Film Details
Since 2019, period products have become unaffordable for nearly three quarters of the Lebanese population. It is in this health crisis that I created "Jeyetna". It draws ten intimate portraits of women in situations of period poverty - from a diverse range of age groups, with contrasting religious, social and economic backgrounds - thereby ensuring that a wide, cross-section of women in Lebanon are represented (including Amira, a refugee from Syria, Gigi a transgender woman and Funmi a migrant worker from Nigeria).
With my first film, I engage with the daily struggles that these women face during Lebanon's economic and political collapse. "Jeyetna" draws a Lebanese - but also a universal - portrait of period poverty: to break the silence, for women, by women." —Evelina Llewellyn.