Women in Teaching Film Series

The schedule of the series will start on Thursday March 2 at Palau de Cerveró with The Miracle Worker (Arthur Penn, 1962), a shocking story about a female teacher who is persecuted by her past and has the tough task to teach a deaf, blind girl after everyone else gave up. Next session will be on Thursday March 9 with the film Once in a Lifetime (Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, 2014), an interesting approach to the labour of a teacher and her complicated struggle to motivate today’s teenagers. Then, on Thursday March 23, an oddity on Wes Craven’s career (a director that is known by his horror films) will be projected. Nevertheless, what we see in Music of the Heart (Wes Craven, 1999) is a story about a female violinist that finds the best way to rebuild her life in her music lessons to poor children. The film series will finish on Thursday March 30 with Not One Less (Zhang Yimou, 1999), a film that brings us to the rural China to introduce us a teacher who is only 13 and is in charge of giving lessons to an entire village’s children. A village shaken by poverty and unemployment, where the escape to the big city is the only hope for many, included children.

Non-conformist, Misunderstood Female Writers Film Series

The film series will be open next Tuesday March 7 in Principal Peset Hall of Residence with the projection of The Brontë Sisters (André Téchiné, 1979), three writers who were sisters and lived in the Victorian United Kingdom that must face their father in order to develop their literary talent. Next session will be on Tuesday March 21 with the film I, The Worst of All (María Luisa Bemberg, 1990), dedicated to the life and poetic work of Sister Joan Agnes of the Cross, a writer from the colonial Mexico who transgresses scholastic institutionalised principles. Lastly, on Tuesday March 28 the film Papusza (Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, 2013) will be projected. This film tells the ups and downs of Bronislawa Wajs, a gypsy poetess.

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