Cine club
Wednesday 1st March 2017 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber
Fish Tank
Directed by Andrea Arnold
UK, 2009, 123 minutes
Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing.
Original version English; French subtitles
In collaboration with the Women In Technology Community
Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber
Suffragette
Directed by Sarah Gavron
UK, 2015, 106 minutes
A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These were primarily working-class women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.
Original version English; French subtitles.
Drink before the film at 19:00
In collaboration with the Women In Technology Community
by Cine club
