prallefilm - Tine Wittler

Germany 2013
by René Schöttler

Perceived 'too big' in her home country and currently confronted with the relevance of 'body' and 'beauty', author Tine Wittler travels to Mauritania – a country in the Sahara desert where fully-figured women are considered especially beautiful and force-feeding of young girls is still practiced. But how can this be? How can anything like an 'ideal' emerge in the first place, and what is it influenced by? How can I deal with the conflict of wanting to be 'beautiful' and wanting to be 'free'? And