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    Feminine Future
    Feminine Future
    Feminine Future
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    Feminine Future

    By Rene Hirsch

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    Victim of domestic violence, a young female biologist develops a product that destroys testosterone. Her success forces her to go into hiding...

    Iraq, 2014 – Asherah (8) and her sister Nahid (21) are prisoners of IS. When liberated, their family rejects them because they have been married to IS fighters. To escape prostitution, they decide to marry a man in Tehran.
    Tehran, 2031 – Asherah, now a 21-years-old biologist, suffers daily abuses at the hand of her husband. In the laboratory where she works, she develops a product that prevents the production of testosterone. Once, pushed to the limit by her husband, she tries her product on him. It works perfectly. With her sister and a friend, they use the product to help other victims of domestic violence. But their activity is not to the taste of everyone. When her sister is murdered and her friend imprisoned, Asherah decides to leave Tehran.
    Paris, 2033 - She joins a group of feminist extremists who spread her product all over the world. Scientists and authorities everywhere try to find out what has caused the drastic changes in men, but to no avail. In the meantime, Asherah and her friend Inanna develop a new product that gives women the power to control the level of testosterone of their male fetuses.
    Utah, 2070 – In the new society born out of Asherah’s products, gender roles are reversed: women are in charge and men are sex objects. Although domestic violence has been eradicated and the world is at peace, Asherah, now 64, is disappointed with what she sees, for nothing has really changed, only the roles are now distributed differently. But a group of men has gone into hiding and is organizing resistance against the new world order...

    Three parts:
    In the first part, Asherah fights her husband, overpowers him, and gets away with it. However, when she wants to extend her solution to other victims of violence, a new antagonist emerges: men and the authorities who defend the patriarchal structure of their society. These react violently, killing her sister and imprisoning her associate.
    In the second part, Asherah takes refuge in France where she joins an extremist feminist movement that expands the scope of her fight and extends it globally. Under the influence of her new friend Inanna, the leader of the group and a passionate activist, Asherah’s feminism becomes more radical.
    In the third part, Asherah sees that her products have changed the course of history, but while Inanna praises her work, Asherah realizes that the world she has helped create is not what the world she has dreamt of.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRene Hirsch
    Release dateApr 15, 2020
    ISBN9780463448779
    Feminine Future
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    Rene Hirsch

    René Hirsch is an independent researcher who lives and works in The Netherlands.He is the author of ‘The Codes of Law and the Establishment of a Procreative Monopoly’ (Brill, 2019) ‘The Movies of Susanne Bier: A Cohesive Discourse’ (Amazon, 2016), ‘The Masculine Civilization’ (2013).He is also the author of the following scenarios and ‘cinematographic tales’:A Millenary Malédiction (2019); Feminine Future (Finalist of the North Carolina Underground Film Festival 2017; Official selection of the Script and Storyboard Showcase 2017 and of Persephones Daughters Film Division 2017); and in collaboration with Brigitte Paturzo Catherine of Alexandria (2017) and The Green Stone (winner of the Creation Film Festival Ottawa 2018)He has presented papers in various conferences around the world.

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      Feminine Future - Rene Hirsch

      rené hirsch

      feminine future

      a cinematographic tale

      By the same author

      Cinematographic Tales

      Feminine Future (2017) (1)

      The Green Stone (2018) in collaboration with Brigitte Paturzo

      Catherine of Alexandria (2019) in collaboration with Brigitte Paturzo

      A Millenary Malediction (2019)

      Non-fiction

      The Masculine Civilization (Amazon, 2013)

      Procreative Perceptions, Gender Relationships, and Social Constructs (2015)

      The Movies of Susanne Bier: A Cohesive Discourse (Amazon, 2016)

      Gender Procreative Roles in the First Codes of Law (Brill, 2019)

      Récits Cinématographiques

      Féminin Futur (2017)

      La Pierre Verte (2018) en collaboration avec Brigitte Paturzo (2)

      Catherine d’Alexandrie (2019) en collaboration avec Brigitte Paturzo

      Une Malédiction Millénaire (2019)

      Recherche

      Hommes et Femmes au Néolithique Précéramique (2013)

      2 ou 3 Choses Que Je Sais de Susanne Bier (2013)

      Science de la Procréation et Conception du Monde : Parallèles Historiques (2015)

      Corrélations Historiques entre Connaissances Procréatrices et Croyances (travail en cours)

      (1) Finalist at the South Carolina Underground Film Festival (2017); Official Selection of the Persephone’s Daughters Film Division (2017) and of the Script and Storyboard Showcase (2017)

      (2) Prix du meilleur scénario long métrage au Creation International Film Festival (Ottawa 2018)

      All rights reserved © René Hirsch 2020

      PROLOGUE

      Iraq 2014

      A Farm in the Countryside

      The enormous wheels of a truck at a standstill emerge from the thick fog. At the back of the truck, a group of armed men, all dressed in black, wave their weapons and shout orders in Arabic.

      A group of women and children appear from under the tarp that covers the flatbed of the truck. The men order them to jump. The women push the children aside and jump. The men do nothing to help them. On the contrary, they greet them with insults, make vulgar comments, lift their skirts, or rip off their clothes with jeering laughter. The women who fall on the ground are kicked and beaten with rifle butts. They quickly stand up again, bruised and half-naked.

      When the one who is in charge sees that his men harass women who wear a hijab, he shouts:

      LEADER

      Leave these women alone. They will be the mothers of your children. With the others, you can do whatever you want, until they’re sold.

      It is now the turn of the children to jump off the truck. The women try to help them by catching them into their arms, but the men push them brutally away. Terrorized, the children scream. The orders and insults that burst from all sides only add to their panic.

      The leader notices that one woman whose head is covered with a scarf is pregnant. He asks one of his men:

      LEADER

      Sexual intercourse with a pregnant slave is forbidden. Take her away, I don’t want my men to become sullied and unclean.

      The man walks away with the woman. A shot is heard, and he comes back, alone.

      When the truck is empty, the men separate the boys from the girls and the women wearing a hijab from the ones who don’t. Veiled women are obviously treated with respect.

      The fog clears up. Buildings bound the courtyard on three of its sides, a high wall and a gate closing the fourth one.

      Veiled women and boys are taken to the main body of the farm. The other women are pushed towards the stalls on the left. The men who escort them have already set their sights on the one they want to take first, and do nothing to hide their intentions and excitement. The leader smiles at their frenzy.

      As for the girls, they are hurried in the direction of the huge barn to the right. Suddenly, one of them escapes and runs towards her mother shouting:

      GIRL

      Mama! Mama!

      Without hesitation, a guard points his gun at her and shoots. The girl collapses. Her mother faints. The screams and cries have suddenly stopped; everyone is in shock. A guard points his gun at the mother lying on the ground, but the other women swiftly take her by the arms and drag her on the ground towards the stalls.

      Aghast, the girls are pushed inside the barn. The bright luminosity that reigns in the courtyard makes the obscurity inside the barn even more terrifying. Panic sets in when the massive metallic doors close behind them with a deafening sound.

      A Few Weeks Later

      Around the farm, the rural landscape seems very peaceful. Nothing is moving.

      Suddenly, shots break the silence.

      Peshmerga soldiers in light-colored army fatigues are in ambush on each side of the gate and of a large shell hole in the wall. They exchange fire with the men in black who occupy the farm.

      After the last shots are heard, the commandant of the Peshmergas signals to his men to enter the courtyard and disperse.

      The corpses of men in black litter the ground of the courtyard. The Peshmergas spread to cover all the buildings. A few of them take position on both sides of the doors that give access to the different parts of the farm. They wait. The silence is oppressive.

      On a sign of their commandant, the men break open the doors and enter the three buildings. One shot is fired in the living quarters and everything becomes silent again.

      After a few minutes, the captives escorted by the Peshmergas come out of the three buildings and gather in the courtyard.

      A dozen women come out of the main body of the farm. They are all wearing a black niqab. Only their eyes are visible. None of them seem to bear discernible marks of violence or abuse. Two of them carry babies in their arms.

      They walk with their heads down. A few of them are crying. One of them sees a fighter lying on the pavement and rushes toward him, yelling. A soldier opens fire, and she collapses on the corpse of the man.

      In contrast, the women who come out

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