Athletes, players or even history or cinema enthusiasts will have the right to a focus on their discipline, always under a feminist prism.
The “Les Sportives en Lumière” film festival at the Méliès cinema in Montreuil
The “Les Sportives en Lumière” festival gives pride of place to women and sport in the splendid Méliès cinema in Montreuil. In the program: about fifteen documentaries on women in sports and directed by women. Golf, handball, football, rugby… All disciplines will be present, with an international focus and portraits of European, African or Asian sportswomen. The festival will also welcome many guests, athletes, personalities and sports specialists interact with the audience during discussion and debate sessions following the screenings.
Furthermore, the festival, which takes place from 7 to 9 March, is completely free!
The full program and tickets can be accessed here.
The film “Inshallah a son” by Amjad Al Rasheed, in cinemas from March 6, 2024
THE first Jordanian film never selected at Cannes comes out the week of March 8th and shines a light a gangrenous systemAS many others around the worldspeaks patriarchy.
It immerses us in modern-day Jordan where we follow Nawal, a 30-year-old woman whose husband is struck by death. If Nawal’s world collapses from one day to the next, it is because in Jordanian legislation, a single woman with a daughter is deprived of basic rights, including that of enjoying the inheritance that should be theirs. Between a repetitive daily life, a threatening environment and deeply sexist rules, we follow this Jordanian woman’s struggle to save her daughter and her home, in a society where having a child would be a turning point.
The free exhibition “Women on bicycles” at the Town Hall in the 7th arrondissement
At the dawn of a historic Olympic year, the exhibition Women on bicycles highlights the women’s cycling and its impact on daily life. Through the portraits of 22 Parisian female cyclists, the exhibition celebrates the diversity of cycling, capturing the independence, overcoming of oneself and the enthusiasm inherent in this sporting practice. Eva Cordioli, project manager, confides:
“The bicycle transcends its simple function as a means of transport to become a real one vector of emancipation and liberation. Through long bike rides, I reconnect with my spirit, feeling deep gratitude for the immeasurable benefits this practice offers me.
It is not simply a physical activity, but an experience that nourishes my inner being, freeing me from everyday constraints and allowing me to discover new horizons, both external and internal. »
The exhibition, free of charge, runs from February 29th to March 13th 2024.
The Adelphe Game Fest at the Cité des Sciences
Gamers are finally getting their festival, and it will be this weekend.
Between 9 and 10 March 2024the City of Science and Industry gives a place of honor to women in the world of video games Adelphe Game Fest, of which this is the first edition. The event is overseen by Women in Games France, a professional association working for the inclusion of women and non-binary people in the video game industry in France. Many other associations will be present, including gamers and activistsLet’s drown, Witch Gamez, Listen to it in streaming OR Game’Her.
The full festival program is available online.
The Woman King on Prime Video, March 13, 2024
We will have to wait a few days after March 8th but it is normal, given that March 8th is all year round.
On Wednesday 13 March Prime Video will broadcast the much-noticed on its platform The Woman Kinga film by Gina Prince-Bythewood released in February 2023. Looks back the true story Agojiea unit of warrior women elite responsible for protecting the kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) at the beginning of the 19th centuryAnd century. Trains and trains of General Nanisca a new generation of recruits. He thus prepares them for a merciless battle against the colonists French.
The director weaves the form of the success (the choreographies are impressive) with challenges that we never find in big action films, and rarely in cinema: the mysoginoirThere maternity or even the sexual and gender violence. One of the great moments of feminism in cinema in recent years.
The free exhibition 1974 – Speech by Simone Veil at the National Archives
This year, March 8 resonates differently. Located in the heart of Paris, the National Archives powerfully echo the latest news with an exhibition that returns to the origins of the legalization of abortion in France. Presenting original documents, the Archives take us behind the scenes of Simone Veil’s famous speech given to the National Assembly in 1974. The opportunity to discover the original manuscript of the speech and its typed version, annotated in the hand of the minister of health, Simone Velo. The exhibition will run from March 8 to September 2, 2024.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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