This programme of short films complements the screening of The Long Road to the Director’s Chair by Vibeke Løkkeberg and provides an insight into the work of the female directors featured at the First Women’s Film Festival in West Berlin in 1973. The title references the concept of the »ligne de fuite«, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatarri, which is part of the process of deterritorialization – a form of resistance. In addition, the programme deals with escape in the truest sense of the word: in the films by Helke Sander and Claudia von Alemann, the main character has to escape from a situation in which she feels trapped; Susan Shapiro’s activist film is about resistance among female workers; and in Annabella Miscuglio’s lyrical short film, passing power lines create a pictorial line structure.

The Short Film Programme is part of the event First International Women’s Film Festival 1973.