THE director of a film which explores violence against women in Colombia will be held at Oxford Brookes University at the end of the month.

Lula Gomez, who directed Women to the Front, will be talking to the Oxford Brookes University Documentary Club on November 30 from 7pm until 9pm.

The film explores the plight of seven Colombian women starting new lives from scratch and trying to eradicate the marks of violence from their pasts.

During the film, one woman creates a new refuge for women, while another, a former guerilla, leaves her army and runs a project searching for peace.

After the screening, a question and answer session will take place with Lula Gomez and Cherilyn Elston, of the University of Reading, speaking.

Dr Elston researches Colombian history, literature and culture and her work takes a particular focus on women's writing, the feminist movement and its links to armed conflict.

In her PhD thesis, she worked to look at the relationship between feminist theory and activism, looking at the links between poetry and novels published by Colombian women.

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Other films that will be shown by the documentary club soon include Rwanda and Juliet, a documentary that follows a former Ivy League professor Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, as he sets out to organise a performance of Romeo and Juliet with a young Rwandan cast.