Focus: Katja Raganelli
Programme IFFR 2025
Katja Raganelli started out in the mid-1970s, creating television documentaries that illuminated fellow female filmmakers, venerable masters like Agnès Varda and Valie Export, as well as pioneering figures like Margery Wilson. Her works, though scarcely reviewed and rarely re-aired, sparked curiosity about these filmmakers and their craft. Raganelli’s films were collaborative, educational, and accessible, making a mark by introducing audiences to seldomly spotlighted cinematic perspectives. IFFR’s first international retrospective of her work celebrates her nuanced portraiture and enduring legacy as a filmmaker and film historian. Interested in learning more about Katja Raganelli's work? Read IFFR programmer Olaf Möller's blog here.
Overview of films
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Canned Harmony
Alice Guy-Blaché | 16' | USA | None
A music-loving father wants his daughter to wed a musician in Guy-Blaché’s marriage comedy. -
Joan Tewkesbury + Live interview Katja Raganelli
A glimpse into Katja Raganelli’s vault of unmade films. This edit, will be the starting point for a talk about her work and production. -
Katja Raganelli meets Agnès Varda
A tribute to the Nouvelle Vague’s Grande Dame in one portrait and shorts from key moments in her life. -
Katja Raganelli meets Annot & Rabe Perplexum
Two portraits praising artists lost to time – one a pacifist, the other a transgender pioneer. -
Katja Raganelli meets Valie Export
A rare TV portrait of Austrian avant-garde’s most famous female pathbreaker plus a smattering of shorts by her. -
Die Frauen sind auf natürliche Art schöpferisch – Agnès Varda
Katja Raganelli | 47' | Germany | None
Katja Raganelli’s first portrait of a filmmaker, dedicated to the inimitable Agnès Varda. -
Das Geheimnis der Marquise
Lotte Reiniger | 2' | Germany | None
An animated advert for soap, with an exquisite difference! -
Grotesken im Schnee
Lotte Reiniger, Alex Strasser | 12' | Germany | None
A formally fascinating, partially animated comedy about the perils of Alpine sports. -
The Hater of Women
Alice Guy-Blaché | 15' | USA | None
Proud misogynist Bob Burton becomes the butt of the joke in this rowdy comedy short. -
A House Divided
Alice Guy-Blaché | 15' | USA | None
Tortured by suspicions of the other’s unfaithfulness, a couple separate, though persist in their cohabitation… -
In memoriam László Mészáros
Márta Mészáros | 14' | Hungary | None
A daughter’s tribute to her father, his life, art and politics. -
Die Jagd nach dem Glück
Lotte Reiniger | 16' | Germany | None
A showman rekindles his waning act with the help of a spectacular new invention.