»AS THE POPULARITY OF ANIMATION HAS GROWN, IT NOW REACHES AUDIENCES OF DIVERSE AGES, GENDERS, ETHNICITIES, AND CULTURES. AS THIS GROWTH CONTINUES, SO DOES THE NEED TO  ENSURE THAT ANIMATION CONTENT REPRESENTS THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD BE – A WORLD WHERE WOMEN ARE EQUALLY REPRESENTED, BOTH BEHIND THE SCENES AND ON THE SCREEN, TO MOVE
CULTURE FORWARD.«
– WOMEN IN ANIMATION (HTTP://WOMENINANIMATION.ORG/OUR-MISSION)

Stay tricky! What do social, political and digital changes mean, and how can we influence and control them? Tricky Women / Tricky Realities takes a closer look at these questions and invites guests to join in a discussion. This year’s IWFF Festival motto »Image Traps: Illusion, Camouflage, Masquerade« focuses on a complex of themes that define our socialisation and gender experiences like virtually no others.
The Man Woman Case is an historical thriller that takes us back to the beginning of the last century and traces the brutal persecution of a trans person. Camouflage and masquerade play a central role here, as they do in Tailor, a film in which five trans people in modern-day Brazil look at how they confront discrimination and conventional role expectations and master their everyday lives. How to Adapt and Me-LOG are also a critical reflection of social expectations and the pressures of self-optimisation in our image-obsessed, performance-oriented society.

Tricky Women / Tricky Realities

The now annual Tricky Women / Tricky Realities animated film festival has taken place in Vienna around International Women’s Day since 2001. The competition and international festival offer a unique overview of the animated film work of women artists from all over the world, in particular, from Austria, and showcase film rarities and historical treasures as well as the latest productions. Tricky Women is a meeting place and platform around the themes of animated film production, education and distribution. The aim of the festival is to make women’s artistic animated films available to a wider audience.
Apart from its entertainment value, we love the fact that animated film is a wonderful way of addressing complex, even earnest topics succinctly and without finger-wagging!
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