Friday 06 Feb 2009 - 10:07
London's festival of international women's filmmaking returns early next month, with the theme sex on screen bringing events such as a night of erotic short films and debate on the current state of woman-centric erotica.
The debate is organized by Rachel Millward. Sam Roddick, owner of erotic boutique Coco de Mer, will debate director Mike Figgis (tbc), former Erotic Review Editor Rowan Pelling, director Carine Adler, award-winning female-pleasure-centred porn Director Petra Joy and Professor Linda Williams.
Vixens and vamps are the theme of the Closing Night Awards Party, while a retrospective season at the BFI Southbank, Vamps, Vixens & Femmes Fatales, celebrates the sexiest actresses of the silent-film era.
The nine-day festival, which is now in its fifth year, also surveys the current state of women's filmmaking, with a packed programme of international features, documentaries and shorts, including Sam Taylor-Wood’s BAFTA-nominated Love You More, and Sundance winner August 15th by Jiang Xuan.
Features include two times Oscar®-nominated Frozen River, Sugar from Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the UK premiere of Bosnian Cannes Critics’ Prize winner Snow, the UK premiere of delightful French feature Grown Ups, German surrealist The Heart is a Dark Forest directed by award-winning actor Nicolette Krebitz and Argentinian masterpiece La Rabia.
The documentary programme includes break-out hit American Teen from Oscar®-nominated Nanette Burstein, The Art Star and The Sudanese Twins following internationally renowned conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft, Franny Armstrong’s latest campaign flick The Age of The Stupid, a gorgeous portrait of the active elderly in The Time of Their Lives and an intimate portrait on failed women suicide bombers in Shahida - Brides Of Allah.
The festival runs March 5-13 at the BFI Southbank, ICA and The Gate cinema, all in London, and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK on International Women's Day (March 8th)
For more programme details click here.
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