title: POP-Corn presents: Women in Focus
start: 2018-03-14
start time: 19:30
end time: 21:45
venue: Poplar Union
city: London
country: GB
coordinates: 51.5159, -0.0224
tags: femiagenda femiagendalondon feminism feminisminlondon feminismo feminismus feministevents womenrights
links:
Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1527789130607457/
description:
As part of Women in Focus Festival in honour of International Women’s Day, Mat Sheldon has curated this season of POP-Corn films celebrating women in film.
Moana.
Sunday 4 March
Time: 2pm
Cert: PG
dir. Ron Clements & John Musker (2016)
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana’s island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.
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Girlhood
Wednesday 7 March
Time: 7.30pm
Cert: 15
dir. Celine Sciamma (2014)
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self-confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
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Alien
Wednesday 14 March
Time: 7.30pm
Cert: 15
dir. Ridley Scott (1979)
After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realise that its life cycle has merely begun.
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Thelma & Louise
Wednesday 21 March
Time: 7.30pm
Cert: 15
dir. Ridley Scott (1979)
Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed.