Lecturer, Thinking With/From the Global South's Women Filmmakers, Aalto University, Helsinki

“Thinking With/From the Global South’s Women Filmmakers”: This course is for anyone interested in learning from women’s films produced in South Asia, Southwest Asia, and North Africa. Together we will watch and analyse films’ aesthetics, the institutional context of production, global circulation, and situate them within a larger theoretical framework to help us find an answer to this question: why haven’t we heard of these filmmakers already? This class critically examines the role of films in shaping our sense of global, national, and local cultures and identities. The film examples explored range from cult masterpieces to more popular mainstream works. During the course, we will watch films together, talk about them in class, and, as a primary assignment, students will write their reviews in relation to the films discussed and screened.