Film Festival
Each spring, the OU Women and Gender Studies program presents a film festival featuring compelling and thought-provoking documentaries, panel discussions, refreshments and stimulating conversation. Free and open to the public, all are welcome to lean a critical and insightful eye to current topics of importance to the women and gender studies community.
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The 41st Annual Film Festival: Landfall: A film by Cecilia Aldarondo
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 4-6 p.m.
Oakland Center - Gold Rooms B&C
FREE ADMISSION and light refreshments
Cecilia Aldarondo's "Landfall" offers a prismatic portrait of collective trauma and resistance after an environmental catastrophe. Set against the backdrop of the 2019 protests in the wake of the Hurricane Maria, the film assembles scenes from all over Puerto Rico, spotlighting the different ways each community addresses its own recovery.
CO-SPONSORED BY: This year’s WGS Film Festival is also supported by the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film, Communications, Case OU, Native American Advisory Committee, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and CAS.
- 2024 - 2025 Landfall: A film by Cecilia Aldarondo
- 2023 - 2024 Warrior Women
- 2022 - 2023 No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
- 2021 - 2022 No Box for Me: An Intersex Story
- 2020 - 2021 KIKI (2016)
- 2019 - 2020 Kiki - Event Canceled due to Covid-19, rescheduled for March 2021
- 2018 - 2019 Challenging Femme Phobia: Breaking the Gender Binary in Queer Communities
- 2017 - 2018 She's Beautiful When She's Angry
- 2016 - 2017 STYLE BEYOND THE BINARY: Transgender Visibility and Recognition
- 2015 - 2016 GAME NOT OVER: Gender and Digital Culture
- 2014 - 2015 American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
- 2013 - 2014 Grrrls at the Mic: Power & Protest in Punk and Hip Hop
- 2012 - 2013 Bully
- 2011 - 2012 Miss Representation
- 2010 - 2011 From Hysteria to Disorder: Manufacturing Disorder of Female Sexual Desire
- 2009 - 2010 Women in War / Women on War
- 2008 - 2009 On Our Way to the White House? Women and Electoral Politics
- 2007 - 2008 Revolutionary Women in the Work Force
- 2006 - 2007 Women and Globalization: Merchants or Merchandise?
- 2005 - 2006 Why Can't I Look Like that Model?
- 2004 - 2005 Muslim Women, in their own words
- 2003 - 2004 Women and Sports
- 2002 - 2003 Are you a Woman? Or a Man?
- 2001 - 2002 Fast Talking Dames
- 2000 - 2001 Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
- 1999 - 2000 All Dressed Up: Underpinnings of Feminism in Film and Fashion
- 1998 - 1999 Breaking Silences: Representations of Women in the Non-Western World
- 1997 - 1998 Journey to Community: Women, AIDS and Film
- 1996 - 1997 The Ties That Bind: Families in Film
- 1995 - 1996 Women and Work in Contemporary Film
- 1994 - 1995 Telling Women's Lives
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