On 8 November, Rule 34 by Júlia Murat will be the last screening of our joint programme series “ifs-Begegnung” Gender & Diversity this year:

During the day, 23-year-old Black law student Simone rigorously discusses the role of women in Brazilian society in the lecture hall. She works at a center for victims of domestic violence and researches the causes of racism and femicide. At night, she performs in front of her webcam in a sex chat room and is incited to even more extreme practices. Her private life contrasts with her intellectual ambitions: a free-spirited mix of self-defense classes and safe space sexual experimentation with her university friends/lovers, along with video calls with a confidante and BDSM practitioner who steers her down this precarious path. As she seeks more radical forms of sexual gratification, the lines between body empowerment and self-harm, social responsibility and personal pleasure blur.

8.11.2023 • 7 pm • Filmforum NRW • Cologne
Rule 34

The film will be shown in the original language with English and German subtitles.

Guest: Alex Mello (Filmmaker, actor, writer)
Moderation: Maxa Zoller (Artistic Director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)

The discussion will be held in German, but there is the possibility of translation from and into English.

Admission free.

An event of ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln in cooperation with IFFF Dortmund+Köln in the framework of Filmforum NRW e.V.