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Athena Film Festival Sets Curated Sections Centered Around Women's Health, Dismantling White Supremacy, Other Issues (Exclusive)

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The 11th annual Athena Film Festival has unveiled its opening night film and lineup of programming for its month long March 2021 virtual edition.

The female-focused festival, which highlights women's leadership onscreen and in real life, will open with the U.S. premiere of Tracey Deer's Beans, about a 12-year-old Mohawk girl torn between childhood and adolescence as she deals with community, activism and racism during the 1990 Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis.

The Barnard College-based event this year will also feature curated selections of films centered around key issues, such as dismantling white supremacy, women's health, women working in STEM fields, resilience during uncertainty, imagining a new future and representation.

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