3. & 17.3. Film screening & reading circle: Incest and Literature
Film screening and reading circle: Incest & Literature
Film screening
3 March, 18-12.30
Turku University, Arcanum, Aava
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Reading circle
17 March, 16.30-18.30
Åbo Akademin, Arken, Voltaire (M127)
SELMA and the subject of French Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi are inviting you to two events on on the topics of incest and literature.
Join us for a film screening and premiere in Finland of Christine Angot’s (2024) film “A familly” (in French with English subtitles) on Tuesday 3rd March, 18:00-20:30. The screening will take place in the Aava Lecture Hall, Arcanum building, at the University of Turku and will be followed by a 30-mins discussions for those who wish to take part.
Synopsis: Award-winning French writer Christine Angot goes on a business trip to Strasbourg where her father lived before dying several years ago. It is the city where she met him for the first time at the age of 13, and where he sexually abused her over the following years. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera and knocks on the doors of her family to push them to clarify their attitudes to her father’s crime that stretched over so many years. A cinematographic journey that challenges social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.
You wan watch the trailer here.
Then, this will be followed by a reading circle on Tuesday 17th March, 16:30-18:30 taking place in Voltaire (M127), Arken building at Åbo Akademi University. Attendees can choose which book they wish to read for this event based on the books suggested here and in the language of their choice. It is possible that a few attendees will have read 2024 Goncourt Prize of Finland’s winner Neige Sinno’s Sad Tiger (Triste tigre in French, Tiikerin raatelu in Finnish and Tvingad tiger in Swedish). To register for this event, fill in this form.
Both events are public, free and open to all. They are independent from each other and participants are free to attend only one of them or both the reading circle and film screening.
For more information about these events and the topics at hand, please read the information sheet.