Recommended for A2 and equivalent level Film & Media Studies.
Mustang, a French-Turkish-German-Qatar co-production tackles the sacrifices and solidarity of family ties from the female perspective.
Five young orphaned sisters spend the summer holidays preparing for married life in the ‘wife-factory’ environment of their Uncle and Grandmother.
This event will offer students the opportunity to discuss issues of representation, gender, identity, religion, inter-generational relationships and the cultural divisions between rural areas and the city.
This coming-of-age film also brings into focus the vision and ‘voice’ of the female of the writer-director. The ‘Sisterhood’ as represented in Mustang provides a vehicle from which to explore issues relating to misogyny and patriarchy within film more broadly.
Led by Michelle Morris, Lecturer in Media and Performance, University of Salford
Screening: Mustang (15)
Dir Deniz Gamze Ergüven / France / Germany / Qatar / Turkey 2015 / 97mins / In Turkish with English Subtitles / Günes Sensoy / Doga Zeynep Doguslu / Elit Iscan
A remarkable debut feature that exposes male aggression and highlights the limits of female subordination, Mustang is an urgent and potent work that is especially recommended for teenage female viewers in an era in which gender equality is finally being openly discussed.
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