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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The Return of Draw Egan
William Surrey Hart | 52' | USA | None
The love of Margery Wilson’s good woman makes an outlaw change tack. -
Scum Manifesto 1967
Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig | 26' | France | None
Delphine Seyrig reads from Valerie Solanas’ furious text as disasters blare from a television set. -
Die süße Nummer: Ein friedliches Konsumerlebnis
VALIE EXPORT | 7' | Austria | None
A box of chocolates, the joys of sex, a critique of art and commercialism. -
Tapp und Tastkino (1968, 1969, 1989)
VALIE EXPORT | 2' | Austria | None
A feminist performance piece presented for the first time in 1968 restaged for Austrian TV. -
Ulysse
Agnès Varda | 22' | France | None
Varda revisits a photograph she took 30 years prior on a Calais beach. -
VALIE EXPORT – Portrait einer Filmregisseurin
Katja Raganelli | 44' | Germany | None
Austrian experimental film giant Valie Export seen at a moment of transition. -
Vielleicht bin ich wirklich eine Zauberin – Filmregisseurin Mai Zetterling und ihre Filme
Katja Raganelli | 46' | Germany | None
Raganelli here films Ingmar Bergman star Mai Zetterling at work and at home, tending to her garden. -
The War Game
Mai Zetterling | 15' | United Kingdom | None
Two boys’ play fight over a toy gun escalates into life-threatening violence, a study on war’s absurdity and how we are raised.