TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES '24
FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT
WED 6 MARCH, 19:30
presented by YASMO
We start our hybrid festival adventure in the beautiful cinema auditorium of the Gartenbaukino. The artist YASMO will guide us through the evening, as we present film highlights to give a first glimpse of what's to come.
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© Photo by Caroline Frank
FILMS
LE MAL DES ARDENTS | ARDENT OTHER
Alice Brygo, 2022, FR, 16 minutes
A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.
MOKOSH
Anna Dudko, 2023, AT and UA, 5 minutes
The Sun is breaking into pieces, hard times are coming. In the devastating chaos, Mother Earth gives birth to a new cycle of life. Mokosh was created during a one year artist-in-residence program as a reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
CHICKEN*
Anna Benner, 2023, DE, 8 minutes
What do we burn when our world is already on fire? A woman in a violent relationship encounters a chicken. They share a moment, a cigarette and a desire to set this world ablaze to reflect their wounds. A painted flight of fancy about the elation that comes with breaking out of a cycle of pain.
*contains depiction of gender-based violence and images some viewers may find disturbing
间歇 | A NAP IN FLUOROSCOPY BUSES
Lei Lei, 2022, CN, 7 minutes
Fluoroscopy uses X-rays to see movement inside the body. The microscope becomes a narrative device that brings surveillance and alienation into focus. The film oscillates between microcosm and macrocosm to highlight the irony of loneliness in an overcrowded environment.
LA MUJER ILUSTRADA | ILLUSTRATED WOMAN
Isabel Herguera, 2023, ES, 8 minutes
In Ahmedabad, Isabel gives an animation workshop on Mehndi design to a group of henna tattoo artists. She asks them about their dreams: Ramia would love to fly, Saadiya dreams of an all-woman parliament, Shubhashree longs to travel to Switzerland, and Samira voices her independence through rap.
LA PERRA
Carla Melo Gampert, 2023, CO and FR, 14 minutes
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman. In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves the family home, her domineering mother and her faithful dog behind to go and explore her sexuality.
SWIM!
Isabel Santos, 2022, US-alt-short, 5 minutes
At swim practice, a girl is confronted with her changing body while being bombarded by the whistling of her eccentric coach, the burden of God’s watchful eye, the majesty of the older swimmers and naughty recordings on her teammate’s mobile phone.
TAKO TSUBO
Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza, 2024, AT and DE, 6 minutes
Mr. Ham decides to heal a broken heart by having it removed, as this is the socially acceptable treatment of pain. Holding onto the organ after the surgery, maybe he can begin to understand it better. The film takes its name from a medical condition known as “broken heart syndrome”.