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What Goddesses Watch

What Goddesses Watch

Written by: Film Critic Soma Ghosh
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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.

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  • Female friendship in Indian and Sri Lankan-UK films

    Female friendship in Indian and Sri Lankan-UK films
    Nov 29 2024

    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.
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    40 mins
  • Women in Space & on the Edge of the World

    Women in Space & on the Edge of the World
    Nov 15 2024

    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
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    43 mins
  • Mothering and Sadism: Ama Gloria and Presumed Innocent

    Mothering and Sadism: Ama Gloria and Presumed Innocent
    Jun 12 2024

    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.

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    37 mins
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