International Film Symposium

Visions of Struggle - Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Director Buthina Canaan Khoury, Flavia Laviosa, and Yosefa Loshitzky

November 2-3, 2007, Flavia Laviosa organized a two-day symposium illustrating the hybrid expressions of modernity as manifested in the ways of being a woman in struggle in the Mediterranean area, paying special attention to women's cinema as a form of counter-cinema and reinterpretation of women's shifting roles. Organized around socio-political themes, the symposium hosted speakers who examined films that denounce violence and abuse, expose hypocrisies, and address the consequences of cultural conflicts and changes in women's lives in Mediterranean countries today.

View the webpage: Visions of Struggle - Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

Buthina Canaan Khoury with Flavia Laviosa's Italian Classes

Belèn Vidal and Winnifred Wood's Writing 125 class

Elena Gascon-Vera and Belèn Vidal at the Symposium Reception

Carrie Tarr and Belèn Vidal

Symposium Reception and Yosefa Loshitzky and Anikò Imre

Flavia Laviosa