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Out of the BoxFilm Festival

Out of the Box

Week 43, Out of the Box : For a long time it seemed that women were fated to no more that magicians’ assistants, being locked up, sawn in half or made to vanish . But there is more to the story.
PlanetHeroines
28th January 2021
Circus! Circus!Film Festival

Circus! Circus!

Week 42, Circus! Circus! Traditionally, women circus artists have been sexualized and viewed as lesser performers by the mainly male audience though the twenty-first century has seen an increase in equality and respect for circus women.
PlanetHeroines
21st January 2021
Film Festival

Underrepresented

Many international art institutions post short videos on YouTube or Vimeo with the focus on modern and contemporary art. One of the most active seems to be British Tate that podcasts interviews with artists, performances or walks through exhibitions on a weekly basis.
PlanetHeroines
14th January 2021
Let's DanceFilm Festival

Let’s Dance

Week 39, Let's Dance : Let’s celebrate this locked-down New Year’s Eve by dancing away the end of 2020. There are dances here for everyone, traditional, classical, hip hop or vogueing, your choice.
PlanetHeroines
31st December 2020
SandwichedFilm Festival

Sandwiched

Week 38, Sandwiched; A programme that begins and ends with the making of a sandwich seems not only an apt way to bookend a programme about food, but perhaps also serves as a comment on our present way of life: sandwiched between the inside and outside, between lockdown and social distancing, between…
PlanetHeroines
24th December 2020
The Reality CheckFilm Festival

Reality Check

Week 37, Reality Check : Compare the film programme from week 16 with the programme from week 36. The 20 weeks between them include the beginning of the first lockdown and the battle against the second wave of the Covi19 pandemic, between the The Isolation Experiment and Reality Check.
PlanetHeroines
17th December 2020
I Am Unbeatable Film FestivalAnti-Violence ProjectsFilm FestivalMalevolence

I AM UNBEATABLE

Week 34, I am Unbeatable, This programme is about violence against women – violence against minority groups, domestic violence, human trafficking, child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and femicide. The problem knows no geographical borders, race or class boundaries, it is embedded in the power structure and inequalities of patriarchal society.
PlanetHeroines
26th November 2020