Elisabeth Friedlander, typographer, calligrapher and migrant, developed the font “Elisabeth” in 1928 which is still used today. In 1936 she leaves Berlin, her mothers' violin in one hand, the portfolio with her work in the other. She battles her way through Europe, is able to financially survive thanks to her craft and skill and finally finds a new home in London. There, she counterfeits Wehrmacht seals for the secret service and continues to develop style-defying fonts, patterns and graphics. Like so many other women before and after her, design history disregards her and her memory is now lost.
But in this case, as it often happens, there is another artist that commemorates her. She undertook the painful search for the few documents that still exist and pieces them together. Using her own craft, she creates a filmic monument to bring Elisabeth Friedlander back to the collective memory of art history.… >>>
- Director: Katharine Meynell
Breastfeeding is an activity that can only be done by women. What if this activity would be payed, if you could get bonuses, if you could band together in labor unions? And what about all the other activities that housewives and / or mothers do for free? The film describes the process of breastfeeding in all its facets and unfolds a panopticon of breastfeeding women across the history of art and culture.… >>>
In a cinematic triptych, the film follows a nurse during her night shift. Empathetically and soothingly she talks to the patients and handles the machines with high concentration. For all this, she has only a few moments time. Her shift equals an endurance run in walking speed. State of the art medical technology is said to make nursing work at the intensive care unit much easier but can the rhythms of human and machines really be synchronized?… >>>
In Delhi Geeta offers a taxi service "from women for women". This taxi service allows women to move freely anywhere and at any time in the city. Her motivation is: "The more women become taxi drivers, the fewer women are afraid to step out of the house." Geeta hopes, that this will change cityscape and atmosphere of the city and increases also the position of women in society.… >>>
- Director: Antshi von Moos
