Debate: Tender Currents. How Does the Female Perspective in Chinese Cinema Break Social Taboos and Reshape the Image of China in the West?
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Muranów
About the event
For decades, China took pride in the slogan that women “hold up half the sky”. Today, as the state increasingly promotes a return to traditional gender roles in response to the demographic crisis, Chinese women filmmakers are bringing quiet revolutions to the screen with growing boldness, challenging societal expectations.
Taking Yang Lina’s “It's OK” as our starting point, we will explore the social fault lines that women filmmakers address with voices that are both tender and uncompromising. Join us for a discussion of a cinema in which women coming into their own later in life and younger women alike push back against a system that proclaims progressive gender equality. We will ask whether women in China can speak openly about intimacy and desire, without shame, and how these universal stories confront a reality in which uncomfortable issues are swept under the rug. Does the female perspective in cinema genuinely challenge the official narrative of China and have the potential to bring about real social change? Or does it merely become a convenient tool of *soft power*, helping to polish China’s image in the West?
The meeting will take place after the screening of “It's OK” at 10:45 AM.
Moderator: Lucyna Szczykutowicz (Five Flavours)
Guests: Maja Korbecka
