“Cheryl Dunye not only wrote, directed, and edited her groundbreaking film THE WATERMELON WOMAN but also played the lead role. In this first-ever feature film directed by a Black lesbian, she plays a 25-year-old African-American woman who works with her girlfriend Tamara in a video store in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
After discovering Fae Richards, a Black actress then known for playing stereotypical \u201cmammy\u201d roles, Dunye\u2019s character decides to make a documentary in which she tries to discover this woman\u2019s identity and her own.<\/p>\n
THE WATERMELON WOMAN is considered a landmark within the New Queer Cinema movement and won a @teddyaward after its premiere in Berlin.” De Cinema, Antwerp<\/p>\n
Cineflagey by Cinematek & Kinograph<\/p>\n
The Sous-Entendu-e-s film club<\/p>\n
In collaboration with Kinograph, the feminist collective Les Sous-Entendu.e.s will be screening documentaries and films, followed by a debate with guest speakers on themes relating to sexist and sexual violence and the representation of FINTA people (women, intersex people, non-binary people, trans people and agender people) on the big and small screens.<\/p>\n
From blockbuster films to documentaries, we’ll be looking at them from a feminist and intersectional angle.<\/p>\n
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