The founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) 60 years ago signaled a new era for feminism, and therewith filmmaking by women. What has changed in the decades since? What are the new problems that women who want to make films face? What different kinds of stories do they tell, if indeed they really are unlike those of their predecessors? And which artistic potentials and political agendas lie still dormant –from the ongoing disregard for animation and its subversive potentials to an interest in ordinariness?
A panel featuring, among others, Renata Gąsiorowska (Pussy, IFFR 2026), Laura Laabs (Enkel der Geschichte, IFFR 2026), Andrea Luka Zimmerman (Three Ways of Returning, IFFR 2026) and Mary Stephen (Ombres de Soie, IFFR 2026) will dive into these questions as well as many others.
