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Overview of films

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  Pussy Pumps Up

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  Antoinette Starkiewicz | 7' | Australia | No premiere

  The sensuous contours of the film’s animated lines fluidly morph between feminine, feline and masculine.
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  Pussy

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  Renata Gąsiorowska | 8' | Poland | No premiere

  A modern animation classic, Pussy is a rollicking romp about self-love.
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  Rødstrømper – en kavalkade af kvindefilm

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  Mette Knudsen | 35' | Denmark | No premiere

  A history of modern Danish women’s cinema, presented as a collage of excerpts from some twenty activist works.
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  She-Bop

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  Joanna Priestley | 8' | USA | No premiere

  An intriguing animated film about goddesses, power and directing one’s own destiny.
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  Skittish Brothers

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  Hermína Týrlová | 9' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere

  Hermína Týrlová crafts a tender, cheerful film with animated yarn and simple objects.
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  The Stitches Speak

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  Nina Sabnani | 12' | India | No premiere

  An animated documentary about a community of artists who use Suf embroidery to tell their tales.
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  Three Ways of Returning

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  Mania Akbari, Xiaolu Guo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman | 81' | China | World premiere

  A rich three-part essay film portraying attempts at reconnecting with often traumatic pasts, spanning China, Germany and Iran. 
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  The Trouble with Angels

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  Ida Lupino | 112' | USA | No premiere

  Feminist fun at an all-girls Catholic school, featuring naughty teenage girls and feistily wise nuns!
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  UNSERE NATUR

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  Marlene Denningmann | 29' | Germany | International premiere

  Performed documentary featuring pupils taking part in a sex education workshop.
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  Voices

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  Joanna Priestley | 4' | USA | No premiere

  A vivid depiction of the relationship between animation and the transformation of individual perception.
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  We Aim to Please

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  Margot Nash, Robin Laurie | 13' | Australia | No premiere

  A collage of moments, sweet and strange, on the female condition, fuelled by a disquieting surrealist energy.
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  Wellen Wende

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  Josephine Ahnelt | 73' | Austria | World premiere

  A gentle and curious documentary of sublime beauty about postpartum life, its joys and challenges.