Cambridge Film Festival, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council Leading Women project, Film and Screen, University of Cambridge and Peterhouse presented ‘Hail Mary: Motherhood on Page and Screen’: a rich and insightful discussion with author and academic Katixa Agirre and members of the Leading Women team. The one-of-a-kind event took place on […]
During the 44th Cambridge Film Festival, ‘Leading Women’ hosted a post-screening Q&A session with Basque novelist Katixa Agirre, author of the book “Las madres no” (“Mothers Don’t”), adapted for the screen by Catalan filmmaker Mar Coll as Salve Maria. The film stars Laura Weissmahr in a genre-bending exploration of postpartum depression and the irrational facets […]
On 29 October, Prof. Sally Faulkner delivered her Inaugural lecture of the endowed Chair at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. The lecture was focused on Spanish cinema and television, asking: what happens when we re-focus screen histories through the lens of gender and feminism? Prof. Faulkner discussed the period of Spain’s Transition from dictatorship to democracy […]
Leading Women in Portuguese and Spanish Cinema and Television,1970-1980