Feminist Fightback Filmclub: Shoplifters
May 30 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Join Feminist Fightback for our May film screening.
We will be showing Shoplifters, a 2018 Japanese award winning film written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Shoplifters is a study of family trauma and the fear of poverty.
On the margins of Tokyo, a family is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. One day the father and son meet an abandoned little girl, and, despite their poverty, the family takes her in. But an incident will expose their secrets that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
A film about chosen family and different mechanisms of care where the state has failed, this film builds on the theme of care Feminist Fightback is tackling alongside our summer reading group on Pirate Care. By interrogating alternative networks of care as represented in Shoplifters and Pirate Care, we hope to spark conversations and actions that demand freedom to live for all and the proper recognition of care work.
Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged.
Drinks and snacks will be available.
Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity.
All genders welcome.
Doors open at 7pm.
ACCESS:
The film showing will take place on the ground floor of Pelican House, in the room at the back of the courtyard. The toilets are on the same same level. The space and toilets are level access from the road.
Closest stations Bethnal Green tube station and Bethnal Green overground station.
Closest bus stops Cephas Street and Three Colts Lane for the 106 and 254 buses.