In a world of injustices, war, discrimination, abuses, sexual harassment and oppression, collective and mutual support has become a space of building resilience for vulnerable communities and groups. Getting together can not only activate processes of healing and empowerment for its members. It can spark protest, create political and social visibility and vindicate their existence. The program puts together different manifestations of caring trough artistic and political activism, bodily rituals and solidarity, and appeals to our empathy with those who need to be seen, understood, and helped. (Maria Morata)
Inspired by Derek Jarman's „Section 28” installation, the film compares stories from a recent history of the Romanian queer community with current personal experiences, linking them to lyrical observations about a still hidden present, a distillation of the distance between the silent realities of queer love and the hysteria of its public representation.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
Cordula Rieger's THE GALLERY documents in a filmic observation the eponymous action by FLINT-collective fempak_wie: Members of the collective address their individual experiences of sexualized violence. The acts of the perpetrators are displayed in black on white and transported to the public, which is no longer allowed to look or listen away.… >>>
A prairie in the American West crossed by railways, a lonely tipi and the rough vastness, thought collection at the historic location. In the city: a memorial dedicated to the pioneer's spirit, the monumental stone architecture of a government building, a demonstration of young Indigenous people, signs bearing names of Indigenous groups. In 1864, U.S. cavalry troops perpetrated a massacre in which at least 200 members of the Cheyenne were killed. Elleni Sclavenitis‘ film montages images testifying to a contested history: an unmarked location and lived praxis in explicit memorials and the implicit evocation of history by urban architects. Against that on the vocal level individual voices and oral tradition from a kin of one of the massacre's victims.… >>>
Premiere:
World Premiere
- Director: Elleni Sclavenitis
