Short Attention Span Cinema: International Women’s Day
Friday, March 7 - Thursday, March 13, 2025
As part of our ongoing Short Attention Span Cinema program, IFC Center is proud to play “The Long Walk: Towards Gender Equality in Politics” from the Financial Times in honor of International Women’s Day (Saturday, March 8). The short will play before select screenings of our regular feature films.
“2024 was a year of elections: more than half the world’s adults could vote. To mark this, the FT embarked on an ambitious project featuring 4 exclusive films, live events and a published book.
We commissioned female writers from around the world – including Margaret Atwood from Canada, Lola Shoneyin from Nigeria and Aditi Mittal from India – to explore what democracy means to them. We decided to commission women because research shows that, when democracy is threatened, women suffer disproportionately. Women also remain underrepresented across democratic institutions.
The result was a forum for audiences in different countries to see their national debates as part of an international trend. The film series reached 1.1 billion viewers and thousands more either attended the live events around the world or bought the book- active and committed engagement.
For 2,500 years, women have been fighting for their place in our democracies. This two-minute animated film, made by the Financial Times and Copenhagen based animators Benny Box, traces the slow path to equality. With music by multi Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens.” – The Financial Times
“I’m delighted to have some of my music used in this beautiful yet heartbreaking piece of animation showing where we have come from but how far in fact we still need to go.” -Rhiannon Giddens