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Film Festival

Soundings

Week 49, Soundings : Sounds and sounding out, literal and metaphorical, are the thematic notes reverberating through this programme.
PlanetHeroines
11th March 2021
Film Festival

365

Week 48, 365 : March 8, International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. At the same time it is just another day in the struggle for a world with gender equality. 
PlanetHeroines
4th March 2021
FlâneuseFilm Festival

The Flâneuse

Week 47, The Flâneuse : Originally the image of strolling or sauntering was ascribed to an affluent male, a literary gentleman from 19th-century France who moved unobserved, through the streets but was always observing.
PlanetHeroines
23rd February 2021
CarnivalFilm Festival

Carnival

Week 46, Carnival : Carnival’s origin lies is a Christian festive season before Lent. Traditionally it is celebrated in countries with a large Catholic presence with parades, street parties and sometimes religious services. Masked figures with wondrous costume may people the streets accompanied by live music.
PlanetHeroines
18th February 2021
Warriors Dreamers EducatorsFilm Festival

Warriors, Dreamers, Educators

Week 45 : Hip-hop feminism can be seen as part of Black feminism, the fight for social change in a capitalist system that insists on inequalities based on race, class, gender and heteronormativity.  It is a ‘theoretical and practical enactment of intersectional, sex positive and inclusive feminist ideas and concepts that draw…
PlanetHeroines
11th February 2021