Referring to the socially established canons of beauty – Opening 12.5.2021
Ode to summer
Director: Celina Duprat
Country: Argentina
Ode to #Summer is all about #desire. It explores the delicious #taboo of female strength, that which triggers the most intimate spots until exploding in pleasure.
The protagonist goes through a feeling of uncomfortable and uncertain #loneliness, which puts her in a passive perspective, being a witness of her friends.
However, there is a sense of audacity, authenticity, a desire for herself that opens to a world of #fantasies of becoming the character of her
Ribbon lady
Director: Ludmila Cimbůrková
Country: Czech Republic
Ribbon lady’s job is to sit naked in front of a high school figure painting class. Her #old body is presented in all its #beauty covered with #wrinkles that let us know of her wisdom. Self proclaimed noble countess tells a story about her husbands which she loved and outlived. Her light-hearted life is full of happy little accidents, #stereotypical rituals, feminine love and her beauty.
Fromoso
Director: Zoé Gruni
Country: Italy
FROMOSO is a video-performance inspired by the concept of #anthropophagy. The action was carried out inside the allegorical floats dump of the #Carnival in the port area in Rio de Janeiro. The dancer Ana Kavalis @ana_kavalis concedes her body to an esoteric #ritual in which the #body is absorbed until it disappears.
Godmothers: vaginismus stories
Director: Laura Laplana
Country: Spain
#Vaginismus is a condition in which involuntary contractions of muscles in the #vagina makes penetration impossible. It has been considered a psychological problem without specific treatment but the protagonists of this #shortfilm prove these theories wrong with their stories of overcoming vaginismus with physiotherapy.
Diana, Iraida and Jacqueline begin to shape an artistic project that they want to exhibit soon. Montse began years ago to organize an association. All of them want vaginismus to stop being invisible, and for that they have to name it and tell it. Because as they well know, what has no name does
KLAÜD
Director: Aurélia Mengin
Country: Réunion
The stigma of your absence covers my skin…
What if this life of memories was just a strange and astounding carnival?
Myach
Director: Olga Karasöva
Country: Germany
A poetic #dance-dialogue between the dancer and her shadows, which personify her inner experiences. The project was made in the technique of frame-by-frame #animation to the music of the Ukrainian freak cabaret band Dakh Daughters @dakhdaughtersband.
Community Guidelines
Director: Marija Lucic
Country: Germany
The film Community Guidelines presents a naked model with covered eyes. The images are followed by a #robot voice-over stating the Social Media Community Guidelines about #nudity: what is adult nudity, which content is forbidden, and what are the consequences for violating the guidelines. Isn’t it weird that we are still living in a world where some parts of the human body are considered a #taboo?
This one weird trick
Director: Joanie Wind
Country: United States
A woman slogs through an identity mired with #gendered #stereotypes and consumer #capitalism to attempt to discover her true self. What is “natural” or “original” becomes inaccessible, forgotten, and nonexistent.
Just. Another. Month.
Director: Charlotte Weinreich, Rosa-Lena Lange
Country: Germany
In #Namibia, many women* suffer not only from a lack of adequate #menstrual hygiene products, but above all from the fact that menstruation is seen as something impure. The stigmatization of the period often prevents them from participating in community activities, going to school or isolates them completely during their period.
We have accompanied two Namibian #activists with the camera. Both women are working in different ways against period poverty in Namibia and are fighting for equal rights for women and girls. At the same time, the film sheds light on the various perceptions of Namibian schoolchildren, women and men of different ages and backgrounds on the topic. This collage of individual impressions reveals the difficulties women face with regard to #menstrualhealth and hygiene, as well as the critical social consequences that result from the widespread tabooing of menstruation in society.
OH SH*T!
Director: Elsa van Damke
Country: Germany
OH SH*T! follows 27 y/o Maggie on a date at her crush’s apartment. When she suddenly gets her #period, she rushes to the bathroom — where she finds herself confronted with a monster that’s been living in her head for far too long.
Pothos
Director: Aliza Brugger
Country: United States
During her First Communion, Ivy also gets her first period.