MOYO hosted a lecture theatre cinema as part of the ‘16 days against violence against women’ campaign
Despite numerous parallel events and Christmas markets, Lecture Hall 2 at the main university was packed on the evening of 27 November. Numerous guests accepted the invitation from the MOYO association in cooperation with the Master’s programme in Gender, Culture and Social Change to a lecture theatre cinema.
The programme included ‘Little one’, South Africa’s official entry for the 2013 Oscars in the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category: based on true events, Darrell James Roodt filmed a stirring drama starring Lindiwe Ndlovu, who won the SAFTA Award for her portrayal of the lead role Pauline. In 2014, the feature film received the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Africa Film Festival ‘Jenseits von Europa’ in Cologne.
Little One is the story of little Vuyelwa, who is found by chance by children playing in a field bordering a township. The girl’s face is disfigured – she has been raped. The children call for help and Pauline, who is raising a son herself, decides to take Vuyelwa to hospital. To make life a little easier for the girl, Pauline makes a mask to hide the disfigured face of the child. Vuyelwa slowly dares to go outside and return to life. When Pauline decides to take in and adopt the seemingly orphaned girl, she realises that there are numerous bureaucratic hurdles ahead of her. The authorities do not want to release Vuyelwa into impoverished circumstances.
After a brief introduction, the film screening began immediately. The organisers deliberately decided against a subsequent discussion round, as the film deals with numerous topics such as violence against women, discrimination based on skin colour, gender and sexual orientation, etc. This was one of the reasons why the screening was scheduled to coincide with the ‘16 days against violence against women’ campaign. For this reason, it did not make sense to pick out individual topics for an exchange of ideas – rather, the film was intended to inspire viewers themselves to discuss and reflect on them with their friends and acquaintances.
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