All posts tagged: Glasgow

IN SEARCH…

February 22, 2020

Join us for the Scottish premiere of Beryl Magoko’s documentary IN SEARCH…

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Event Space, 13:00 Start

IN SEARCH…
Beryl Magoko | Germany/Kenya 2018 | English, German, Swahili w. English subtitles | 90′ | N/C 12+

Scottish Premiere

As a young girl, Beryl Magoko gave into peer pressure and chose to be “circumcised”. IN SEARCH… portrays her encounters with other FGM survivors and her journey to reconstructive surgery. A moving piece about dealing with the past and reclaiming the future.

The film is followed by a post-screening discussion.

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This screening is presented in collaboration with Africa in Motion Film Festival.

This event is part of the strand AUTONOMY.

 

Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

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Womxn’s Networking Brunch

February 22, 2020

Come along and enjoy brunch on us!

Meet up with fellow Glasgow-based creatives, filmmakers and feminists to chat about your experiences and what you’re working on. Find potential collaborators and create ties across film and feminism.

Free, but ticketed. | Get tickets here.

There will be veggie and vegan options, but if you have any other dietary requirements, please get in touch at hello@femspectives.com.

This event is open to womxn and non-binary people only (trans-inclusive).

Femspectives 2019, Photo by Ingrid Mur

THE ARCHIVETTES

February 21, 2020

Join us for the Scottish premiere of Megan Rossman’s documentary THE ARCHIVETTES.

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Canteen, 19:30 Start

THE ARCHIVETTES
Megan Rossman | USA 2019 | English | 61′ | N/C 12+

Scottish Premiere

In the 1970s Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded The Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City. Over 40 years later the archive is the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and still flourishing. THE ARCHIVETTES chronicles their fascinating origin story and the continued fight to preserve history.

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This screening is a Relaxed Screening.

This event is part of the strand IT’S COMPLICATED.

 

Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

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nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL STAND UP

February 21, 2020

Join us for the UK premiere of Tasha Hubbard’s documentary nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL STAND UP.

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Content warnings for this and all other films at the festival are available here.

Event Space, 19:00 Start

nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL STAND UP
Tasha Hubbard | Canada 2019 | English, Cree w. English subtitles | 98′ | N/C 12+ 

UK Premiere

In 2016 Colten Boushie, a young Cree man, was killed in Saskatchewan. nîpawistamâsowin: WE WILL STAND UP shines a light on the vast inequality and systemic racism within the Canadian legal system. Framed within Tasha Hubbard’s personal history, the piece reflects on the impact of colonialism and is hopeful for a better future.

The film is followed by a post-screening discussion.

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This event is part of the strand COLLECTIVE MEMORY: TRAUMA & NATION.

 

Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

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BORDERS

February 21, 2020

Join us for Apolline Traoré’s award-winning film BORDERS.

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Event Space, 16:30 Start

BORDERS
Apolline Traoré | Burkina Faso/France 2017 | French w. English subtitles | 91′ | N/C 18+

Directed by prolific filmmaker Apolline Traoré, BORDERS tells the story of four womxn travelling from Dakar to Lagos. The women form bonds through shared experiences and work together to assert their independence in a patriarchal society.

This event is part of the strand IT’S COMPLICATED.

 

Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

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Femspectives Opening 2020 | VAI

February 20, 2020

Come and celebrate the opening night of Femspectives 2020 – the second edition of Glasgow’s feminist film festival! We are opening with VAI, a portmanteau feature film made by nine Pacific filmmakers.

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19:00 Doors; 19:30 Start

VAI
Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Miria George, Ofa Guttenbeil, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Nicole Whippy, Sharon Whippy | New Zealand 2019 | Fijan, Tongan, Roviana, Samoan, Cook Islands Mãori, Niuean, English, Maori w. English subtitles | 91′ | N/C 12+

A delicate and empowering ensemble piece produced by 9 female Pacific directors and filmed in 7 different Pacific countries. VAI is a meditative exploration of disappearing traditions through the portrait of a young womxn’s journey through life, each played by a different indigenous actor. A celebration of female strength, connection and community.

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Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

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Catalan Film Festival: JOURNEY TO A MOTHER’S ROOM with Cinemaattic

December 5, 2019
journey to a mother's room

Join us for a partnership screening at the Catalan Film Festival in Glasgow!

Like many other Spaniards Leonor leaves her Spanish home to find a job in London. A touching portrait of a mother-daughter relationship and life in an empty nest from one of Catalan cinema’s up-and-coming talents – Celia Rico Clavellino.

SYNPOSIS

Celia Rico’s deeply personal debut feature is an affecting tale about a daughter who craves change, and a mother who fears it. Does it sound familiar?

An intimate yet funny portrait of a close mother-daughter bond unexpectedly transformed when one moves away.

Since the death of her father, Estrella (interpreted by Almodovar’s regular Lola Dueñas) and her daughter Leonor (Anna Castillo)  have wrapped themselves in a cocoon of uneventful, pedestrian comfort. When Leonor breaks free and leaves home to work as an au pair in London, Estrella is faced with an empty nest for the first time. Unexpectedly, Estrella soon finds her days fruitfully occupied by an unusual new hobby and even an awkward romantic prospect – both of which spawn much hilarity. As it turns out, new-found independence is a blessing more for the mother than the daughter in this beautiful, touching film.

Directed by Celia Rico Clavellino
Spain 2018

JOURNEY TO A MOTHER’S ROOM swept up the Youth Jury and New Directors Awards at its debut at the San Sebastián Film Festival, as well as Gaudí Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Female Lead and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Written and directed by emerging Spanish talent Celia Rico Clavellino, this debut feature is a quiet meditation on family attachments and what can be gained from letting go.

“Dueñas occupies every inch of a new ground discovered with the hesitant charm of an ingenue, creating a character of an older woman who is also a permanent beginner.” – Little White Lies.

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CATALAN FILM FESTIVAL: #SCFF19

We take a look again at Catalonia as an interesting sample of how societies are addressing universal issues at local/regional level. From migrant integration to climate change; stories about responsible tourism, digital shift, language, and identity.

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD + Finger Food

June 27, 2019
Yours in Sisterhood by Irene Lusztig

Join us for food and a screening of YOURS IN SISTERHOOD, a documentary revisiting letters to the feminist Ms. magazine by Irene Lusztig!

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD directed by Irene Lusztig, USA 2018 (101 min).

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TICKETS are sold on a sliding scale – £0-8, pay what you can. Get them here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yours-in-sisterhood-finger-food-tickets-63330309661 Here is our rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay: https://femspectives.com/ticketing-information/

Yours in Sisterhood Femspectives Screening Glasgow

YOURS IN SISTERHOOD is a participatory documentary featuring letters that were sent to Ms. Magazine during the 1970s. Lusztig films women as they read the letters aloud and respond to their contents. The films creates a dialogue between current feminist discourses and reactions to America’s first mainstream feminist magazine. It invites a personal reflection and encourages audiences to consider the feminisms that have come before and what might follow.

To accompany the screening, we will be working with MILK’s kitchen team to create an American-style buffet.

The screening will be followed by a discussion. Food is included in your ticket.

 

 

Reviews

“A kind of living time capsule putting the past into a dialogue with the present.”

New York Times

“Yours in Sisterhood delves into the archive…bringing neglected letters into the circulation they sought, and changing their unpublished pasts into public futures where their voices are heard. It uses the letter as a form of time travel, and even teleportation. This is science fiction at its highest order: moving non-linearly through time and space, beaming us from past to future and back again, transforming bodies into other bodies through quantum connections.”

So Mayer Author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema

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Trailer

 

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Creative Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.

Feminisms & Activism // A Call to Action

March 24, 2019
Free Period film still

Closing the festival with a celebration of work by kick-ass womxn working in Scotland!

GET TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminisms-activism-a-call-to-action-tickets-57023993299

Various // UK
60m //  N/C 12+

Give the finger to the system! Come along and get inspired by a compilation of shorts produced in Scotland that will rile and encourage you to pick up a sign. Change comes in numerous ways and we all have a part to play in transforming the minds and the structures that exist in our society.

The screening will be followed by a discussion.

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Film programme

FREE PERIOD
D. Alison Piper // UK 2017 // 6m

REPRESENTING SCOTLAND
D. Noor Abdel-Razik // UK 2018 // 7m

NIGHT SHIFT
D. Ruth Reid // UK 2011 // 9m

MATCH DAY
D. Katie Mallinder // UK 2018 // 9m

TAKE YOUR PARTNERS
D. Siri Rødnes // UK 2015 // 10m

LOUD AND PROUD
D. Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi // UK 2018 // 1m

STICKERS
D. Natasha Lall // UK 2017 // 6m

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Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

Supported by Screen Scotland.

Feminisms + Religion // 93Queen

March 24, 2019

Join us for the Scottish Premiere of Paula Eiselt’s 93Queen exploring the intersections of feminism and religion!

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D. Paula Eiselt // USA 2018
85m // N/C 12+ // Scottish Premiere

Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park in Brooklyn where a group of empowered womxn in the community band together to create the first all-female volunteer ambulance corps. Paula Eiselt’s assured first documentary is a thought-provoking meditation on the intersections of feminism and religion and how to fight the system from within.

The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Tickets to this event are priced on a Pay What You Can basis from £0 to £8 (in £2 increments). You can choose what you pay based on your circumstances – you won’t be asked for any proof / ID, we just ask that you are honest! And, if you have a free ticket and can no longer use it, please cancel your order or let us know so that it can be used by someone else. Click here for a rough guide to help you decide what you can afford to pay.

Supported by Screen Scotland.

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