The 51%

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of British women gaining the right to vote. According to the Office For National Statistics 51% of the UK population are women. Since 1975 it has been illegal to discriminate on the grounds of sex or marital status. Yet the fall out from the BBC pay gap scandal, the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the ongoing violence and harassment of women on social media and the internet has made it clear that the struggle for the equal rights of women is far from over.

The criteria for the films this year are that they are all made by women, feature female protagonists and are made in the spirit of liberation.

The films this year will include: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, Sisters in Law, La Souriante Madame Beudet, Suffragette, Frida, Ballad for Syria, Real Women Have Curves and Bambule.

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Friday

FILMS	Start	Length	End
Small Axe – Fiction Now Circa (1918)	16:00	0:29	16:29
La Souriante Madame Beudet	16:30	0:26	16:56
Small Axe – Documentary Alternative Housing Awards Drama Teacher Pinky Gurung	17:00	0:27	17:27
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry	17:30	1:32	19:02
Small Axe – Documentary A Tale of War (20) Breathing Still	19:10	0:28	19:38
Frida	19:45	2:03	21:48

Saturday

FILMS	Start	Length	End
Small Axe – Fiction Exist REAL MOTHER The Bunny	10:30	0:30	11:00
Sisters In Law	11:00	1:45	11.45
Small Axe – Student Documentary City of Walls Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord Voices	13:00	0:28	13:28
Ballad For Syria	13:35	0:50	14:25
Small Axe – Fiction Kill the Rich Utopia	14:30	0:32	15:02
Bambule	15:10	1:34	16:44
Small Axe – Fiction (in 3D) PWND The Kamikaze of Fort Greene Park (in 3D come early to get your glasses)	16:50	0:22	17:12
Real Women Have Curves	17:20	1:30	18:50
Nothing to Lose: The Strike of Women Chain Makers	19:00	0:30	19:30
Suffragette	19:35	1:46	21:21

Sunday

FILMS	Start	Length	End
Small Axe – Student Fiction Connected Elephant Mariposas	10:00	0:30	10:30
Small Axe – Fiction El dia de la virgen Go Back To Bed	10.35	0:32	11:07
Small Axe – Fiction The Ticket Welcome to the New World	11.15	28:00	11.43
Small Axe – Student Fiction Abang	11.45	22:00	12.07

Sunday in the Young Peoples Screen

FILMS	Start	Length	End
Small Axe – Young Film Chocolate wind GOLDFISH JETTISONED Noah’s Wish Song of hands Territory!	10:00	1:13:00	11:13
Small Axe Young Film –by filmmakers under 18 Far From Home Golden Spike GSLV Mark3 Life Guard Ready, Willing, & Able THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHOW	11.30	59:00	12:29

 

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THE FILMS

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	A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.
	Set in Kumba in South West Cameroon Sisters in Law follows Adultery, Rape and Abuse cases led by a Female Judge. 2005.
	Often regarded as ‘the first feminist film’, The Smiling Madame Beudet is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. 1923.
	A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channelled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work. 2015.
	In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end. 2015.
	A self-reflective musical documentary that mirrors’ the life of Maisa Alhafez a musician and a Syrian refugee living in Istanbul. The film is about her longing to her loved ones as she tries to make a place for her self in the world of the displaced. 2017.
	The story of Ana, a first generation Mexican-American teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. 2002.
	Written by Ulrika Meinhoff before she became a notorious Red Army Faction terrorist, this is the German ‘Scum’ and is a critique of the authoritarian methods of home education in a girls’ home as the girl’s revolt against the oppressive structures. 1969/70.

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