Berlin Feminist Film Week 2016: OPENING (International Women's Day + Feminist Sci-Fi)

▼Welcome to the opening of the third Berlin Feminist Film Week! ▼

OPENING TIME TABLE

19:00
▼ International Women's Day screening: Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights / 2013 / USA / Nevline Nnaji / 81 min

Tickets: 7 euro

21:00
▼ DUBAIS (live)
▼ Feminist Sci-Fi:
Discussion: What is queer anti-racist sci-fi? With Maude from Swarms of Selenium.
Feature Presentation: Advantageous / 2015 / Jennifer Phang / USA / 91 min

Tickets: 9 euro
All-night-ticket: 14 euro (only at Babylon Kino)

Tickets via Babylon's website and at the door.

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▼ Giveaway x Lunette
▼ Video Installation/Experimental Art Screening and Exhibition

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▼19:00: International Women's Day Screening

Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights / 2013 / USA / Nevline Nnaji

We are kicking off our festival by celebrating the International Women's Day and paying tribute to feminists who have fought for their rights before us and feminists from whom we can still learn new things. A little tradition as of last year, when we screened the documentary about Grace Lee.

This year's international women's tribute is the documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights by Nevline Nnaji. Reflections Unheard is a feature length documentary, and the first of its kind to focus exclusively on black women’s contributions and experiences during the Civil Rights era.

The feature film documentary includes archival footage and in-depth interviews with former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), SNCC’s Black Women’s Liberation Committee, the Black Panther Party, Third World Women’s Alliance, and the National Black Women’s Feminist Organization in which it is revealed how black women mobilized, fought for recognition, and raised awareness of how sexism and class issues affected women of color within and outside The Black Power Movement and mainstream feminism. Prominently featured activists include Frances Beale, Angela Davis, Kola Boof, Nikki Giovanni, Rosemari Mealy, Judy Richardson, Gwendolyn Simmons, Deborah Singletary, and Eugenia Wiltshire.

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▼21:00 : OPENING

▼DUBAIS (live music)▼

Lo Fi Dark Disco. Dubais is the Arabfuturist multimedia music project of visual artist, cultural activist, and musician Nadia Buyse.

Nadia Buyse is a trans-disciplinary artist and musician living in Portland. She has been in at least 30 bands she can remember. She has toured the United States and Europe, playing in a range of spaces from music festivals, punk clubs, house shows, and discotheques. She has also exhibited work internationally and nationally, including the MDW Art Fair in Chicago, Beta Spaces in New York, and dOCUMENTA (13). She has recently received an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and shortly after participated at the ART STAYS residency program in Slovenia, went on a European tour with her multimedia music project DUBAIS, and performed in the Republic of Georgia.

More information: http://dubaispdx.tumblr.com

▼Feminist&Queer sci-fi▼

Advantageous / 2015 / Jennifer Phang / USA

Advantageous is set in a pre-dystopian not too distant future, 2041. The issues facing the population are not far-fetched from contemporary time either, economic crisis, elites ruling society, ageism against women and fertility issues. This is feminist sci-fi at its best and Phang does a good job imagining what future issues we might have to deal with. Whoever is looking for special effect sci-fi and big names will have to look further, this film has a lot more intellectual qualities, an excellent cast and is a subtle critique of current society.

Women are in minority in the film industry; even more so in genre film such as sci-fi, hence the film is feels fresh and adds a new perspective to the feminist film discourse. The film premiered at Sundance and won several awards at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Queer Sci-Fi: Swarms of Selenium

Before the film we will have a little chat with filmmaker Maude from the Swarm of Selenium collective about their upcoming quer sci-fi short film project which has an anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-imperalist focus. We will speak a little bit about the importance of anti-oppression behind and front of the camera as well as why these projects are important.

More about the project here: https://swarmofselenium.tumblr.com

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▼Contributing artists & filmmakers▼

VIDEO

Almaliza / 2015 / France / Mademoiselle L.

Hairy / 2013 / Belgium/Canada / Kimura Byol-Nathalie Lemoine

ISTO (This) / 2014 / Brazil / Mariana Collares

Witch Hunt / 2015 / USA / Liz Cambron and Sheila Azadi

And it shall not stand / 2015 / Belgium/Canada / Nicky Miller

Do I feel happy? / 2015 / USA / Kim Shively

Ghost Syndrome / 2013 / USA / Rita Pfeiffer

Scream Queens / 2015 / UK / Melodie Roulaud

Romantic Period / 2015 / Victoria Ruhe

Arrangement / 2014 / Canada / Coral Short

Jutta Mind / 2015 / Netherlands / Marit Shalem

Mint Faces feat. Kate Miller / 2015 / Germany / Christin Mino

The First Woman / 2015 France / Daniela Zorrozua

PHOTO

Jessica Polar

Mar Martin

VIDEO ART

Alex Martinis Roe

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More information about the films here:
www.berlinfeministfilmweek.com/films