Special double bill of two documentaries from Indonesia, part of our Gender Agenda! season in association with SOAS.
To celebrate the centenary of SOAS, University of London, we are delighted to bring you five recent festival hits from Africa, Asia and the Middle East that show inspiring people tackling gender inequalities in startlingly original ways: from Hooligan Sparrow, the revolutionary Chinese activist for women’s rights, to the famous Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, one of the most committed feminists of the twentieth century; from the women and men who have shaped feminist struggles in the Arab world, to the contemporary LG
In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa.
FEMINISTS INSHA'ALLAH! THE STORY OF ARAB FEMINISM + Panel Discussion
This is the unknown story of a century of Arab feminism. Filmed in Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia and featuring previously unreleased archives and exclusive interviews with activists...
The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province in southern China, to protest the case of six elementary school girls...