Discussions of gender identities and the right to them are still active in the media. Joan Rowling's transphobic posts, denial of access to women's restrooms, and the aggression of trans-exclusive radical feminists towards transgender people repeatedly raise questions about the concept of "femininity" and its limits.
How inclusive are feminist spaces for transgender people? Is "femininity" being undermined by queer theory and practice? And, in fact, what is a "woman" - the topic of conversation in the film of the same name and the core issue of the whole program.
Self-injurious behavior, Violence
WHAT IS A WOMAN? | HVA ER EN KVINNE?
Marin Håskjold
Norway | 2020, 14 min
A discussion occurs in a women's locker room when someone asks a transgender woman to leave. One in the locker room means that woman is something that you are born as and not something you can become. The discussion escalates continuously as more people interfere. Everyone with different thoughts about what a woman is.
QUEER CARRIERS: DOUBLE AND REPETITION | PORTADORAS QUEER: EL DOBLE Y LA REPETICIÓN
Ana Laura Aláez
USA, Spain, Japan | 2020, 15 min
With Queer Carriers, Aláez explores the degrees of rebelliousness in a given representation of plural femaleness via the use of image repetition in parallel with musical repetition. The video is based on a specific track produced in partnership with the electronic music project of the German musician Daniel Holc / Ascii.Disko.
POISON
Louve Dubuc Babinet
Belgium | 2020, 19 min
The world of work is increasingly uncertain because of technological disruption and labour reforms. The labour system is running out of steam. Poison is a queer BDSM porn actress. Far removed from the world of work, the monetary system and the lifestyle of an employee, she uses her stage performances to champion her causes, vent her anger and claim the right to decide what happens to her own body.
CAUSE OF DEATH
Jyoti Mistry
South Africa | 2020, 19 min
Women’s bodies are always at risk. An autopsy report describes the physical impact on the body that results in death but hides the structural and recurrent violence on women’s bodies that leads to femicide. Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.
CENTAURESS
Deniz Şimşek
Germany, Turkey | 2020, 8 min
Year 2003, footage from TV archives, the future president of Turkey speaks to his folk. An everlasting catchy tune from a juice commercial. In an instant of remembrance your memory gets you to fall through its own time and space.