For other screenings of the film studies and media center, visit our calendar at http://swem.wm.edu/services/media/calendar.cfm
Sept 6 Thu, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
Who Will Sing a Lullaby …(29 min., dir. Nina Rudik, Ukraine 2006)
Masha’s father and Katya’s grandfather are on paternity leave. They are among the few men from Kiev who dared to use their right to take paternal leave. Challenging their traditional role as breadwinners, overcoming social stigma, and encouraging their wives to realize themselves outside of the home, Masha’s father and Katya’s grandfather do not think of themselves as heroes and dependants.
Sept 20 Thu, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
There are Women in Russian Villages (Dir. Pavel Kostomarov and Antoin Kattin, Russia 2006)
In this film, two women, a mother and a her daughter, demonstrate that poverty in Russia is increasingly a women’s phenomenon. Liuba and Alesya are milkmaids at a state farm—a profession that is underpaid and perceived as too strenuous for most people. But Liuba and Alesya, who are raising children and fleeting domestic violence, have little choice.
Sept 25 Tue, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
Kristina and Christ (Dir. Inesa Kurklietyte, Lithuania 2006)
In Lithuania, women occupy a lower position than men in the Lutheran Church hierarchy. Kristina, a graduate of Oxford University, is not ordained to become a priest because she is a woman. As an assistant pastor, she could act as a lay person only. Committed to theology and educating others, she has focused on encouraging women and girls in her community to seek equal rights for women and men in the Church and society at large.
Films are introduced by Elena and Alexander Prokhorov
