12th discussion organised by the IFFF Dortmund+Köln on gender equity and the status of women in the film industry on the occasion of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Women have been working in front of and behind the camera since 1896, many have disappeared from film history. The film archive is essential for film festivals – it has the power to change the past, present and future of women’s cinema. However, a critical approach to the feminist archive is absolutely vital. How to deal with absence in the archive: with women, LGBTIQ+, People of Color? How do we frame historical films with sexist and racist images, scripts, ideologies? And in what way do we take responsibility for our own entanglements in unbalanced power relations, in particular when working in institutional and national archives? What role do accidental archivism and private collections play? How do we narrate the archive so that the past leads to us?
• GABY BABIĆ Director Kinothek Asta Nielsen, Frankfurt / M.
• JIHAN EL-TAHRI Filmmaker, visual artist and producer
• DR. ELISA JOCHUM Department Head – Film Heritage, Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
• ELIF RONGEN-KAYNAKÇI Curator Silent Film, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
• DR. MAXA ZOLLER Artistic Director IFFF Dortmund+Köln (Moderator)
Tue, 20th February 2024, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. (CET)
Vertretung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen beim Bund • Hiroshimastraße 12–16 • 10785 Berlin