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Programme of Events

The event will run for two weeks from 6pm, and screenings will take place as follows:

  • Monday 20th February - Persepolis
  • Wednesday 22nd February - Heavenly Creatures
  • Friday 24th February - Under The Hawthorn Tree
  • Monday 27th February - The Class
  • Wednesday 29th February - Y Tu Mama Tambien
  • Friday 2nd March - Submarine 

Each film is being introduced by a guest speaker and information about the guest speakers along with thier topics can be found below:

Persepolis - Introduction by Mark Collington, Lecturer in Animation from the University of Bedfordshire

Heavenly Creatures - Seminar by Michelle Paule, a talk on the gendering of discourses of intelligence in media portrayals of young women from the Oxford Brookes University (to take place earlier in the day at 1pm in A107)

Under The Hawthorn Tree - Introduction by Professor Chris Berry, film and television studies at Goldsmiths from the University of London

The Class - Introduction by Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy, specialist in French cinema, from Nottingham Trent University

Y Tu Mama Tambien - Introduction by Dr Debbie Martin, lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies from the University of Bath

Submarine - The film is to be screened first and the festival to be closed with a Q&A session with Jack Thorne, Scriptwriter and Playwright, winner of the Royal Television Society award for screen writing with Shame Meadows for This Is England '86 in 2011

We look forward to seeing you there!

Bedfordshire University

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