FEMINISM AND CINEMA: A TRIBUTE TO THE PIONEERS

Looking back at how far we’ve come... but also how far we still need to go: it would be unthinkable to put together any feminist film program without paying tribute to the pioneers whose struggles paved the way for women directors today. In film and video, from drama to experimentation, humour to horror, sometimes singing, and never anything less than inventive and militant, these wo- men kicked down the door to an unprecedented chapter in the history of cinema. Let’s celebrate their achievement though these documentaries, anniversaries and restored cuts.

• DELPHINE ET CAROLE : INSOUMUSES, Callisto Mc Nulty
• PROGRAMME Courts métrages Delphine & Carole 
• L’UNE CHANTE, L’AUTRE PAS, Agnès Varda (1977) 
• MOURIR À TUE-TÊTE, Anne Claire Poirier (1979)
• LA CUISINE ROUGE, Paule Baillargeon & Frédérique Collin (1980)

EVENTS

Cocktail 50/50 to 2020

October 16, 5 pm

During this cocktail, the FNC will sign its engagement to the Collectif 50/50.

L’une chante, l’autre pas

October 19, 5 pm

The screening will be followed by a discussion about Agnès Varda work , her feminism and her influence on female directors.

Guests : Rosanna Maule (teacher at Concordia) and Guylaine Dionne (director and teacher). They made a documentary together on female directors : Les Réalisatrices contemporaines : L’état des choses (2018)

OTHER FEMINIST FEATURES

Many features are also feminist in the rest of the line up. SEE THEM ALL

• ADAM, Maryam Touzani
• THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn
• A MOON FOR MY FATHER, Mania Akbari & Douglas White
• VARDA PAR AGNÈS, Agnès Varda
• THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO, Karim Aïnou
• MA NUDITÉ NE SERT À RIEN, Marina De Van
• VIDEOPHOBIA, Daisuke Miyazaki
• MAKE ME UP, Rachel Maclean
• AREN’T YOU HAPPY?, Susanne Heinrich
• DIEU EXISTE, SON NOM EST PETRUNYA, Teona Strugar Mitevska
• INDIANARA, Aude Chevalier-Beaumel et Marcelo Barbosa
• WOMAN, Anastasia Mikova & Yann Arthus-Bertrand
• HAUT LES FILLES, François Armanet
• ALIEN, Ridley Scott
• ALIENS, James Cameron 
  

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