30 minutes on «Tradwives»
What does the “tradwife” trend say about gender equality in 2025 – and why does the ideal of the traditional woman keep reappearing in new forms and cultures?
Practical info:
- Date: Saturday, NOV 8 at 17.15
- Ahead of the screenings of LIVING THE LAND (at 18.00) and NORTH SOUTH MAN WOMAN (at 18.15)
- Language: Norwegian
- Free and open to all!
At this year’s Films from the South, we meet women who break free from old frameworks – but also those who find comfort within them. In the Peruvian film Mistura, an upper-class woman, Norma, awakens to a new sense of self after a life of pretense. In Living the Land, we see how traditional gender roles encounter modernization in rural China, while the documentary North South Man Woman explores what happens when expectations of women and men collide across the two Koreas.
The conversation takes its starting point in these films – asking what the “tradwife” phenomenon tells us about gender, freedom, and identity today.
The discussion will be moderated by Ida Madsen Hestman – film and music critic, culture journalist, and media scholar, founder of the cultural platform TBA, and contributor to Klassekampen, NRK, and Montages. She will be joined by Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, former leader of the Christian Democratic Party (KrF) and Minister of Children and Family Affairs, and Kari Helene Partapuoli, Secretary General of Plan Norway.
