I Am FEMEN

Very well done movie with good interviews and lots of footage of the Femen in action. These young girls use their bodies to protest various political injustices, first in Ukraine, and now around the world. Mostly in French with English subtitles, some English and other languges. I support these young ladies and so should you.

While the remarkable Citizen Four dominated the genre on account of its historical resonance and the prescience of the filmmakers in picking up on the centrality of Snowdens mission while in progress, I felt that Je Suis Femen was the superior film. Moving, finely detailed, with well drawn characterisation, the fact is that patriarchy is an even more significant problem than mass surveillance. But the film is much more than the examination of an issue.As we watch the gritty history of the rise and decline of Femen, we are witnessing the heart rendering dynamics of youthful idealism and political activism under the heel of difficult and besetting convention and merciless cynicism. Oksana, looking like Nestor Makno , as she muses over an open fire singing traditional Ukrainian songs, is like a moth to the flame , and the punctual implications are distressing for those who actually might care, to say the least.IMO, great , not merely good.

interesting as a documentary type film but not much entertainment value.

In the 2014 documentary I AM FEMEN women take the silly double standard that allows public breast-baring only to men and turn it into a shortcut to raise awareness of patriarchy's ugliest manifestations, such as three Ukrainian men getting a slap on the wrist for the rape and murder of a girl. The film follows mostly Oksana Shachko, one of the half-dozen or so young women demonstrating throughout Europe with the activist group FEMEN, whose web site describes the organization as an "international women’s movement of brave topless female activists painted with the slogans," working against "patriarchy and humiliation."Would FEMEN's message reach as many people had Ms. Schachko and her fellow female colleagues, instead of demonstrating topless, created petitions to demand justice for that girl those three men killed, and would anyone have wanted to make a movie that millions will see? I don't know, but one cannot deny FEMEN is getting attention with its chosen method of operation, although one should not expect I AM FEMEN to wrap up with what you'd call a victory for the group. However, as the I AM FEMEN closing credits roll, it is clear this is just the beginning of the FEMEN story.Meanwhile in the United States, I viewed I AM FEMEN in August 2015, just as women posing topless for tourist photos in New York City's Times Square, drawing the ire of the mayor and governor even though it is legal in New York for women to bare their breasts in public, was in the news. It takes a man to see women do something lawful and say, to quote Governor Andrew Cuomo, “it needs to be stopped.”

A very powerful movie detailing the struggles of women too further their cause in this modern day world that we all live in.

Interesting documentary. Well made.