D'Ora
D’ORA tells story of Europe’s first successful female photographers, who build her own business, fought for her independence and fled persecution.
D’ORA tells story of Europe’s first successful female photographers, who build her own business, fought for her independence and fled persecution.
D'ORA is a historic drama series, inspired by the photographer Dora Kallmus aka Madame D’Ora, about a free spirited, ambitious, young woman from an Upper Class Jewish family in Vienna who aspires to become a photographer in order to establish her financial independence, so she will not be forced to marry and can continue her affair with her older, married lover Esté. Full of charm, talent, and zest for life, Dora will struggle to break into the male dominated field of photography, establish herself and her studio while taking advantage of the people who help her to break free from the societal chains she faces as a woman. But will her ambition, quick rise and ruthlessness cost her the one thing that means the most to her: her relationship with Esté? D’Ora will explore the themes of love, gender inequality and family against the background of a fast changing, tormented Europe in the first half of the 20th century
London International Short Film Festival 2022 - Audience Award