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Thursday, November 30

The Divine Order
A Film by Petra Volpe
Time:
7:00 pm
Presenter:
Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival: Faces of Inequality
Location:
McConomy Auditorium
Announced by:
Global Studies Center on behalf of Swiss-American Society of Pittsburgh, CMU Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion and CMU Gender Programs and LGBTQ+ Initiatives

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 where women are still denied the right to vote. When Nora (Marie Leuenberger, winner of a Best Actress award at Tribeca), an unfulfilled housewife, is forbidden by her husband from taking a part-time job, her growing interest in women's liberation turns her into the poster child for her town's suffragette movement. Refusing to back down in the face of opposition, she convinces the women in her village to go on strike. In today's world where many are still fighting to be heard, The Divine Order is an uplifting look at how much change a small group--or even one person--can enact if they stand up for what they believe in.