Film
Indigenous film, art and activism: counter-cartographies of the Amazon
This one-day symposium explores the relationship between film, art, and activism in the Amazon. Along with in-person discussions by international speakers, the programme includes a number of contemporary Amazonian films made by Indigenous creators who are using film to amplify their voices and contest historical marginalisation.
Secrets and lies
Wed 10 February 2016
St John's College
Leigh's emotionally rich social observation documents the subtleties of the relationships in a dysfunctional family as its members' secrets are revealed. After her adoptive parents die, an upwardly mobile, young black optometrist looks for her birth mother and discovers her to be working class and white. Part of the series Reproduction on Film: Sex, Secrets and Lies. Put on by the Generation to Reproduction programme with funding from the Wellcome Trust. For more information: http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/secrets
Cost: Free
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