A poetic reprocessing of experiences of sexual abuse in childhood.
Saturday, 20/10, 8pm in room 1
Mexico 2021
Carolina Meza
4:00 min
Short / Docu / Experimental / Student
Andrea has kept her diary since she is seven years old. Today, she is confronted with growing up and evanescence through the diary entries. At the same time, facing her younger self helps her to find herself and become reconciled with age.
Thursday, 20/10, 8pm in room 1
Peru 2021
Andrea Quiroz Linares
19:00 min
Short / Docu / Animation
The charismatic Dinho talks about his extraordinary life story and how he defied the conventions of his fishing village in southern Brazil by becoming a crossdresser and starting to weave lace – a task traditionally performed by women.
Can be watched in the film block: Identity and self-determination
Brazil 2019
Adriane Canan
25 min
A current look at the Brazilian film industry that opens up different perspectives: Experts counter the flimsy arguments of interviewed passers-by and young filmmakers show the production process of an independent study project. Under Bolsonaro, public funds have been cut and content censored since 2019. For example, when they do not fit into the evangelical-conservative worldview of the right-wing extremist president, like the film about the former sex worker Bruna Surfistinha.
Can be watched in the film block: State and violence
Brasil 2019
Nathalia Oliveira
14:34 min
Abortion in El Salvador is punished with 20-40 years in prison. Indebted to All Women wants to give voice to those women suffering and struggling to change one of the most restrictive law in the world for sexual and reproductive rights.
Can be watched in the film block: My body, my choice!
Spain 2019
María Lobo, Roi Guitián
1:17:00 min
Esguicho (squirt) is a documentary about “female ejaculation”. Moving away from the two main types of discourse on the subject, scientific and pornographic, the film is interested in the experience of women who ejaculate. Demystifying the idea that female ejaculation is something rare and eccentric, the interviewees speak freely and naturally about their squirts.
Can be watched in the film block: Lust and desire
Brazil 2019
Carla Miguelote
24:06 min
In a wooden shed on the east side of São Paulo, 16 women work sorting recycling material in Filadelphia Cooperative. “Men here can take two weeks. In a month, they won’t be here anymore”. A subject inevitably comes up: why do men give up so early to work in the cooperative?
Can be watched in the film block: Labor and consumption
Brazil 2018
Dani Drumond
7 min
Havana has been chosen as one of the most wonderful cities in the world. Al the residents of Havana are proud about that. But behind their pride, there is also grief. The pain of another Havana that is falling apart, people who lose their homes and frequently with it part of their identity. “Our daily Havana” lets us focus on the housing problems in two of the most populated districts of Havana: Old Havana and Central Havana.
Can be watched in the film block: Documentations of resistance
Cuba 2017
Andros Barroso
29:46 min