Category: VWFF 2021
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Audience Award 2025
AND THE WINNERS ARE… For Mít, a gender fluid person, a life between two worlds is nothing new. Against the expectations of grandmother Roan and mother Mai, Mít is seeing Lara. But before Mít has the courage to separate from the family, Roan is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. For Mít, a part of the familiar world…
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VWFF 5 – Queer
The films in this section explore identity, sexuality, and gender across diverse stories, narratives, and places, finding and creating complex communities where we can be with each other. The concept of ‘Queer’ has multiple interpretations, and this is an approximation of the various meanings we can find for it. These seven short films range from…
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VWFF 5 – Me Too
The Me Too social movement was born in 2006 thanks to sexual assault survivor activist Tarana Burke. It emerged as a collective call against gender-based violence, making visible the experiences of those who have suffered abuse and harassment, and since its global expansion in 2017, due to the denunciation of Alyssa Milano, it has changed…
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VWFF 5 – Activism
At a time when the world seems closer to its end than to its beginning, we choose to once again ask ourselves about the body. What active bodies do we need on today’s screens? We propose an active pause to contemplate stories. A woman collecting bottles on the street to survive in the first world.…
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VWFF 5 – Berlin Migrant
We, the migrants, are not wanderers in foreign lands; we are the living archives of erased histories. Our presence disrupts the carefully constructed illusion that these lands were ever made for just one kind of person. In Germany, where the far right rises and hate speech poisons the air, we, the migrants, emphasize the urgency…
