• WANDA Feminist Film Festival Hits Belfast This Weekend

    November 1, 2018 - By 

    This weekend Belfast will be treated to the second year of WANDA: Feminism And Moving Image, a feminist-orientated mini film festival playing at Accidental Theatre, QFT, the Ulster Museum, Black Box and Beanbag Cinema. Tonight’s opening film is Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s stark, beautiful adaptation of Satrapi’s biographic graphic novel, charting her time growing up in Iran during the Revolution, her teenage boundary-pushing taking place against a backdrop of war, social upheaval and patriarchal religious control. Tilda Swinton fans get four Tildas for one in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Teknolust, in which the actor plays a scientist and her three cyborg creations, who go around seducing men and extracting…

  • Preview: Feminist Film Festival

    September 30, 2015 - By 

    That there is such a thing as a Feminist Film Festival in Dublin, and that that festival is celebrating its second year will be both a surprise and an annoyance to some people. Probably the same people who ask why BBC Radio 4 still has a daily programme called Woman’s Hour. But to those people I say, consider this: currently there are 22 female presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of state in the world. That compares to 174 male world leaders. Odd that, considering that men only make up 50.4% of the planet’s population. Odder still is the fact…