Beyond Patriarchy Film Festival 2019: Meek's Cutoff (2011)

Beyond Patriarchy 2019 Film Festival

How does patriarchy affect people’s daily lives?
How is it reinforced across generations?
What forms of dissent, solidarity and resistance arise in response?

Beyond Patriarchy will screen four films over four weeks in March exploring these questions. The films examine patriarchal oppression and violence from intersectional and feminist perspectives across the world. Screenings will be followed by an open audience discussion led by guest speakers.

• Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016), 7th March 2019

• Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012), 14th March 2019

• Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2011), 21st March 2019

• Waiting for Men (Katy Lena Ndiaye, 2008), 28th March 2019

Moonlight - a beautiful coming of age film set in the context of Miami, where heteronormative definitions of masculinity and sexuality represent an inescapable pressure for young black boys. The film won critical acclaim and an Oscar for best picture in 2017. See trailer

Barbara looks at a fairly recent historical past concerning fear and resistance in pre-Berlin Wall East Germany. Nina Hoss stars as Barbara, who attempts to leave the GDR under the relentless gaze of the communist state that follows her every move in her public but also private life. See trailer

Meek’s Cutoff is a film inspired by white settlers’ written accounts of their journey through the wilds of Oregon. It offers an alternative perspective on a quintessential male genre, the American western, and subverts the dominant narrative of exploit representative of the genre. See trailer

Waiting for Men is a documentary film set in a remote region of Mauritania, in a Muslim society seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance. It depicts three women as they speak freely about sex, love and money. Surprising, frank and heartwarming, the film challenges dominant European and American representations of Muslim women. See trailer

We look forward to seeing you! 

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This event is free and open to all but registration is required.