Focus: the Future Is NOW
Overview of films
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The Trouble with Cinema
A female vision of cinema, its rewards and discontent, including portraits, summaries and critical reflections! -
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Women’s Work
A programme of women’s animation that transforms craftwork into art and subverts a harsh world with softness. -
B-Girl Rhapsody
Lillian Hunt, James R. Connell | 77' | USA | No premiere
A recreation of a typical 1950s burlesque show with energetic stripping and formidably corny comedy skits. -
Female Pleasures
These films insist on the fact that women’s pleasure is both a birthright and a political act. -
Life Lessons
From Sesame Street to teenage desires: Let’s enjoy the beauty of cinema as a force in education. -
believe in it
Yonesho Maya | 4' | Japan | No premiere
Buoyant animated images soar across the artist’s notebooks like joyous thoughts in flight. -
Blanca Putica. A Girl in Love
Miñuca Villaverde | 14' | USA | No premiere
Rites and rituals of desire acted out between plants and fairy lights, with a defiant air of camp. -
Button
Teresa Badzian | 7' | Poland | No premiere
Stop-motion brilliance transforms simple buttons, threads and cloth into playful patterns and games. -
Casting Tapes
Ulrike Putzer, Matthias van Baaren | 23' | Austria | No premiere
Actresses audition for the part of an actress. A mix of documentary and fiction about womanhood and acting as social practice. -
Challenge for Change: “… and They Lived Happily Ever After”
Kathleen Shannon, Irene Angelico, Anne Henderson | 13' | Canada | No premiere
A hard look at the realities of motherhood and married life, co-directed by seminal Canadian filmmaker Kathleen Shannon. -
Cinemartyrs
Sari Lluch Dalena | 104' | Philippines | International premiere
An essayistic film about tackling past injustices, from forgotten massacres to overlooked women filmmakers.
