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In Person: Sep 23, 2022 - Sep 26, 2022
Online: Sep 23, 2022 - Oct 03, 2022
Sep 23, 2022 - Oct 03, 2022
United States Premiere

Marianne

Directed by: Valentina Canavesio
Duration: 77 minutes
French
Subtitles English
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Seven French Muslim women take back the narrative of their lives, defying the idea of the “oppressed Muslim woman” and pushing the viewer to question their own assumptions on liberty, feminism and the French national identity.
Marianne takes its name from the national icon of the French Republic which portrays the Goddess of Liberty, to explore the lives of France’s ongoing existential concern:Muslim women and their place in the public sphere.
Legislated, judged, and regulated in public spaces, schools and even beaches, French Muslim women are spoken about at length but rarely given the opportunity to speak in the mainstream conversation surrounding feminism, laïcité (France’s version of secularism) and Islam – or any other topic for that matter.

Marianne aims to contribute towards the effort to redress this imbalance. It does so with unprecedented access to French Muslim women’s lives from across the country. Seven of these women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, hijabis/non-hijabis, Muslim-born and converts- open up and allow us to see them in all their vibrancy and nuances. A back-to-the land horticulturalist with an inter-racial family, a “mipster" (Muslim hipster) who shaves her head as a protest to the required removal of her scarf at work, an upper class blonde medical student convert, a public school teacher turned. opera singer, a gritty lawyer from the banlieues, a social media influencer, and a once homeless single mother now serving in UK council.

Coming from different walks of life, they challenge the dominant French narrative of a monolithic group, defined by oppression and a backwards worldview. Through their respective journeys and points of views, the film questions the concepts of laïcité,
universal feminism, liberty, and French identity as they have been defined by the mainstream.
Content Warnings: Brief Nudity, Racism
Genres: Documentary and Reality
Studio: Felicity Productions
Producers: Valentina Canavesio
From: France, United States
Produced In: France, United Kingdom
Key Crew: Anne-Laure D'hoogheMohamed Elsafty
Nominations: ITWIFF Audience Choice Award

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