Women's Film Week 2016 in Larnaca

The Larnaka Cinema Society welcomes the UNDP Women’s Film Week to celebrate International Women’s Day in Larnaka!

The theme chosen for this year’s edition is "She did it! Positive Women’s stories” and aims at giving a positive spin – through cinematography - to public reflections/debates on some of the greatest challenges faced by women today in Cyprus and globally (migration and domestic work, equality and discrimination in the workplace, love and disability, gender stereotypes, women’s leadership and women’s participation in the peace process).

9/3 Wednesday, 19:00
Some Other Stories (Slovenia)
Directors: Marija Dzidzeva, Ivona Juka, Ana Marija Rosi, Ines Tanovic, Hanna Antonina, Wojcik Slak
2010, 114 min
Five stories of motherhood by five female directors from five former Yugoslav republics come together in this touching feature.

10/3 Thursday, 19:00
II primo incarico (Italy)
Director: Georgia Cecere
2010, 90 min
A girl leaves her comfortable home and promising relationship behind for her first teaching job in a rural village. A tender story on the lessons of life.

11/3 Friday, 18:00
The Help (USA)
Director: Tate Taylor
2011, 146min
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

The American Embassy will join us in a discussion on domestic work following the screening of the film.

The 2016 Women’s Film Week is organised under the auspices of the Technical Committee on Gender Equality, by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Goethe-Institut in Nicosia, the Larnaca Cinema Society, Larnaca Municipality, MAGEM, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Cyprus (UNHCR).

This week-long event was made possible thanks to the support of Embassies and Cultural Institutions in Cyprus who provided us with yet another great selection of films.

Full Larnaca Programme available here: www.cy.undp.org/content/dam/cyprus/docs/PFF%20Publications/WFW2016%20LarnacaFinal.pdf

All movies will be screened in their original language with English subtitles.

Entrance to all films is free!