Feminized presents: VESSEL + Q&A

Feminized presents the best of feminist cinema – anything from fiction and documentaries to short films or porn goes as long as the films pass our critical eye.

Join us on December 2nd as Feminized will present the German premiere of Diana Whitten's documentary Vessel, a fascinating story about activist and doctor Rebecca Gompert's organisation Women on Waves. As a doctor living by the sea, Gompert's controversial response to the abortion laws around the world was take matters into her own hands, bypass national laws by providing abortions on a ship offshore. Despite setbacks, Gompert's slightly unlikely idea developed into a global movement.

We have invited activists from Pro-Choice movements based in Berlin to join us for a chat about their work after the film.

Time: 21:00, doors at 20:00
Organizer: Feminized and Mobile Kino
Cost: 5€
Venue: Urban Spree, Revaler Strasse 99
Language: English

Vessel - The Film

"Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea, and an unlikely idea. Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created by anti-abortion law around the world, felt compelled to challenge this. Her method: to provide abortions on a ship in offshore waters.
Her project, Women on Waves, begins as flawed spectacle, a media frenzy, faced with governmental, religious, and military blockades. But with each setback comes a more refined mission, until Rebecca has the revelation that she can use new technologies to bypass law – and train women to give themselves safe abortions using WHO-sanctioned protocols with pills.
We witness the creation of an underground network of emboldened, informed activists, working at the cutting edge of global reproductive rights, who trust women to handle abortion themselves. Vessel is Rebecca’s story: one of a woman who heard and answered a calling, and transformed a wildly improbable idea into a global movement."

More information about Vessel and Women on Waves: http://vesselthefilm.com/