A multi-cultural, polysexual podcast about womxn on screen and behind the camera. Film critic Soma Ghosh, often joined by top feminine artists & thinkers, deep-dives the latest and classic TV and films, combining English & non-English works. Clever, fun & badly behaved.
Irish LGBTQ+ film festival curator, audio journalist, artist, poet, DJ and actor Caoimhe Lavelle joins film critic Soma Ghosh to discuss Taste of Mango and All We Imagine As Light, two films set in India, Sri Lanka, and British Suburbia, about female friendship, sex, male violence and love.
Comedian, journalist and poet Suchandrika Chakrabarti joins Soma Ghosh to explore why we like seeing women in space and at the edge-of-the-world in film and TV. We're watching Rebecca 'Dune' Fergusson anad Harriet Walter in the new Season 2 of Apple TV's Silo, extraordinary Swedish film Aniara - with its tender, existential queer love story - and the maternal side of the Alien films. Catch Suchandrika's live comedy show here: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/suchandrika-chakrabarti-doomscrolling
Writer, TED talker and Professor, Pragya Agarwal joins Soma Ghosh to talk about the "beautiful, sublime, heart-rending" Ama Gloria by Marie Amouchekeli and Apple's Presumed Innocent, directed by Anne Sewitsky and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga and Renate Reinsve. We discuss alternative mothering, the healing wisdom of a child's point of view and whether a female director can rescue the screen obsession with brutalising women.
Losing your daughter to ISIS or drink: this episode, film critic Soma Ghosh takes a closer look at the big ideas in Kaouther Ben Hania's Four Daughers and Emma Westenberg's Bleeding Love, starring Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara. Let's think about destructive co-dependencies, the relationships between daughters and their mothers and fathers, and the truths families can't tell.
