Female body, Queer body, a body and its (dis)ability – The main focus of the 2019 edition of Feminist Film Festival “From Rosa to Simone” is A BODY – not (only) as an anatomical phenomena, but rather as a subject with political, social, cultural, gender and other identities. This multidimensional subject has sexuality – one of the main fundaments for formation, self-perception and representation of one’s persona – which is constantly affected by internal and external contexts.
The Brave directors from our film program explore human bodies and (dis)abilities inside and outside of them – on the one hand, with empathy, sensitivity and carefulness, but on the other hand they lead us with a radical challenge and honestly to this fundamental journey.
Festival Program
8th of March
19:00 - "Heroines (3 stories)" | 3 min. | Georgia | 2019*
Director: Natia Nikolashvili | Studio Animatory
Drawings by: Anuk Beluga
Animated alternative history of 3 women with unusual power and bravery from XVIII century Georgia – Tamar Vashlovneli, Tina Tsavkiseli and Ana Baji.
*Followed by a lecture "The Amazons, Mothers, Women" of a philosopher and a gender researcher Lela Gaprindashvili
9th of March
16:00 - "Love & Sex & Rocknrollstuhl" | 45 min. | Germany | 2017 |
Director: Susanna Wüstneck*
The documentary tells about the life with disability and longing for love and sexuality. Nicola, Stefan, Wiebke and Emanuel live with a physical disability and in different life situations. They all longing for love and sexuality, so they meet one day at an erotic workshop in the Institute for Self-Determination of the Disabled in a little German village.
*Followed by Q&A session with the director Susanna Wüstneck.
*The director's visit has been financially supported by Women's Fund in Georgia.
18:00 - "Look at me like that" | 10 min. | UK | 2017
Director: Marika Kochiashvili & Tamsin Omond
The film asks how it would feel for a woman to free herself from the performance of her sexuality. How does it feel for her to enjoy her sexuality? To release herself from the sexual expectations of her society and her partners and instead to leap unbounded into the fire of her own sexual pleasure.
"We created this film after interviewing 30 women about their experience of their own sexuality. Look At Me Like That is inspired by the challenges and triumphs. The film shows the bliss of realising and releasing your own sexual power. It touches upon how female sexual experience is limited by patriarchy and how masturbation is one way that we might set ourselves free."
18:15 - "Kittens" | 8 min. | 2016 | & "Bond" | 30 min.| Ukraine | 2018
Director: Zhanna Ozirna
These autobiographical documentaries follow the development of the relationship between a lesbian couple. Camera is rolling when situation is funny or even when it gets tense. Every scene we see on the screen - whether main character tries to save the relationship, or when she goes back to her family and tries to find new bonds with its members, all are real life scenes, captured with the camera by the director herself.
10th of March
18:00 - "Touch Me Not" | Romania Germany, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, France | 2018
Director: Adina Pintilie
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives. Craving for intimacy yet also deeply afraid of it, they work to overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms and taboos, to cut the cord and finally be free.
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