wocomoHUMANITY | Inside the first lingerie shop in Iraqi Kurdistan | A Story of women's empowerment @wocomoHUMANITY | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Northern Iraq's first lingerie store not only sells underwear, but also acts as a meeting place where women connect to their bodies and sensuality after overcoming the traumas of oppression, war, and conservative morality. The store is in Suleimaniyah, a city in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, where the male management of the mall state: “A billboard of a woman in lingerie is not possible - a woman in a bra and thong but without a head, maybe.” Yet the women in Up to G-Cup are open with each other and the camera. Director Jacqueline van Vugt captures intimate stories about love, sex, shame, and war.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00 - Intro
▷ 00:05 - Up to G-Cup
▷ 00:05 - Credits
#Iraq #womensrights #feminism #documentary
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In the dressing room of the first lingerie store in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, women regain their sensuality and sexuality after times of war and oppression. The film director Jacqueline van Vugt follows Kurdish-Dutch Shapol Majid, the owner of the the lingerie shop opened in 2014, but also several generations of women, who tell their vulnerable story there about love, sexuality, faith, war, and freedom. Which effect can this lingerie store have on their lives? Will the lingerie, so close to the skin, act as a balm to ease the pain? The documentary explores these questions with deep humanity and empathy for these women marked by war and oppression and who are alienated from their bodies due to illness, injury and conservative sexual morals. "Up to G-Cup" is an honest and compelling film in which women are portrayed in a world dominated by war, faith, men, their mothers and grandmothers.
Directed by Jacqueline van Vugt
© 2021, Licensed by First Hand Films
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Northern Iraq's first lingerie store not only sells underwear, but also acts as a meeting place where women connect to their bodies and sensuality after overcoming the traumas of oppression, war, and conservative morality. The store is in Suleimaniyah, a city in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, where the male management of the mall state: “A billboard of a woman in lingerie is not possible - a woman in a bra and thong but without a head, maybe.” Yet the women in Up to G-Cup are open with each other and the camera. Director Jacqueline van Vugt captures intimate stories about love, sex, shame, and war.
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Chapters
▷ 0:00 - Intro
▷ 00:05 - Up to G-Cup
▷ 00:05 - Credits
#Iraq #womensrights #feminism #documentary
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Subscribe to wocomoHUMANITY: goo.gl/5Sp36B
Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/wocomo
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In the dressing room of the first lingerie store in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq, women regain their sensuality and sexuality after times of war and oppression. The film director Jacqueline van Vugt follows Kurdish-Dutch Shapol Majid, the owner of the the lingerie shop opened in 2014, but also several generations of women, who tell their vulnerable story there about love, sexuality, faith, war, and freedom. Which effect can this lingerie store have on their lives? Will the lingerie, so close to the skin, act as a balm to ease the pain? The documentary explores these questions with deep humanity and empathy for these women marked by war and oppression and who are alienated from their bodies due to illness, injury and conservative sexual morals. "Up to G-Cup" is an honest and compelling film in which women are portrayed in a world dominated by war, faith, men, their mothers and grandmothers.
Directed by Jacqueline van Vugt
© 2021, Licensed by First Hand Films
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Documentaries about people and cultures from around the globe: wocomoHUMANITY offers high-quality content which is produced by leading production companies.
Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries:
▷ wocomoDOCS: youtube.com/wocomoDOCS
▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: youtube.com/wocomoWILDLIFE
▷ wocomoHISTORY: youtube.com/wocomoHISTORY
▷ wocomoTRAVEL: youtube.com/wocomoTRAVEL
▷ wocomoCOOK: youtube.com/wocomoCOOK
Wocomo HUMANITY is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.
