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FILM SHOWN FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CENTENARY (1911–2011)

There will be a screening of Women without Men, directed by Shirin Neshat, to mark the centenary (1911-2011) of International Women's Day. Dr. Niamh Reilly, Senior Lecturer in Global Women's Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway, will give a short talk before the screening.

 When: Tuesday, 8 March at 8.00 PM
Where: O’Flaherty Theatre, NUI, Galway
Admission: €7/€5(concession)
Information/booking: Town Hall Theatre, phone 091-569777 / online booking: http://www.tht.ie/

About the Film

Women without Men weaves together four women's lives in complex and enigmatic ways. Munis is serious, cerebral, and bullied by her brother for neglecting her demure womanly duties. Munis's friend is in love with this same brother who makes Munis's life a misery. Fakhri is a stylish, elegant married woman in her 40s, in love with an old flame. Finally there is Zarin, a prostitute, played with characteristic intensity by Orsi Tóth. With this debut feature, Neshat has made a picture with vision, poetry, sexual frankness and historical sinew. It brings together, on screen, the personal and the political in the story of four women and the way their lives are affected by the turbulence of the anti- Mossadeq coup, and revives the memory of a lost generation of Iranian politics and culture: the westernised liberal intelligentsia, a white-collar class exiled and effaced by the Shah's regime, but also fiercely repudiated by the theocracy installed by the Islamic revolution of 1979. The film underlines the fact that it is Iran which, in the 21st century, has repeatedly offered the world a vivid, unapologetically feminist cinema. A film which ensnares both the heart and the mind. (Winner, Best Director Silver Lion Award Venice Film Festival 2009)

GFS WILL SCREEN THIS FILM IN ASSOCIATION WITH NUI, GALWAY FILM SOCIETY & AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

For more information on this film and others in the Galway Film Society's Winter/Spring 2010-11 series, click here.

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