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The BU Rodolphe-Pesce offers 4 screenings.

Wednesday, March 12: Film on the theme of "Gender and the environment - Ecofeminism".

Keywords: Love film -- Dramatic film -- Female -- Gypsy community -- Generation -- University dream -- Encounter

Summary: "Carmen lives in a gypsy community on the outskirts of Madrid. Like all the women she has met in the community, she is destined to reproduce a pattern that is repeated from generation to generation: marry and raise as many children as possible, until the day she meets Lola. Lola, also a gypsy, dreams of going to university, does bird graffiti and loves girls. Carmen quickly develops a bond with Lola, and they discover a world that inevitably leads them to be rejected by their families".

Wednesday March 19: Film on the theme of "Combating racial discrimination".

Keywords: Animation -- True story -- Homophobia -- Immigration -- Afghanistan -- Refugee -- Civil war -- Taliban

Summary: "For the first time, 36-year-old Amin, a young gay Afghan refugee, agrees to tell his story. Lying with his eyes closed on a table covered in oriental cloth, he plunges back into his past, between the luminous innocence of his childhood in Kabul in the 1980s and the trauma of his family's flight during the civil war, before the Taliban took power. After years in hiding in Russia, Amin - a pseudonym - arrived alone in Denmark at the age of 16, where he met the director who became his friend. As his story unfolds, the pain he has buried in his past resurfaces. Now a brilliant academic living with his Danish partner Kasper, the young man confides a secret he's been hiding for twenty years."

Wednesday, March 26: Film on the theme of "Fighting gender-based violence and SGBV".

Keywords: Drama -- Prostitution -- Home -- False pretenses

Summary "Alfredo and Susanna, cultured, broad-minded people in their fifties, divide their lives between Rome and their country home. Susanna, revolted by the situation of a young Ukrainian prostitute, sets out to save her, and decides with her husband to take her in. But the situation gradually gets out of hand..."

Wednesday, April 2: Film on the theme "Fighting LGBTI+phobic violence".

Keywords: Drama -- Feminism -- LGBT -- Brazil -- Groups -- Life change

Summary: "Bagdad is a 17-year-old skateboarder who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class neighborhood in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Bagdad skates with a group of male friends and spends a lot of time with her family and her mother's friends. Together, the women around her form a network of out-of-the-ordinary people. When Bagdad meets a group of female skateboarders, her life suddenly changes."