Screening and Conversation: "Mai Zetterling’s 'The Girls' (1968): Feminist Movements and European Art Cinema"

Join Anna Stenport, dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication studies with an appointment in the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, for a screening and conversation about one of the most influential feminist films of the late 1960s and 1970s, Swedish director Mai Zetterling’s The Girls (Flickorna, 1968). A masterpiece of modernist art cinema, The Girls is a visually stunning, narratively complex, comedically paced, and compellingly acted film that questions gender roles and blurs boundaries between film, fiction, and life.

The program features a brief introduction to the film by Dr. Stenport, the screening (100 min; film is sub-titled in English), and conversation. The event, part of the 2025 UGA Humanities Festival, is free and open to the public; students and the university community are warmly welcomed.