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IFFF Revisited presents films by Ula Stöckl

In this archive programme IFFF Revisited we dip into the Festival’s now 30-year-old-plus back catalogue and present ground-breaking films by women directors that are still highly topical today. In 2022, the film and media scientist Borjana Gaković joined the team and is presenting a program with two films by Ula Stöckl: Rede nur niemand vom Schicksal (Just don’t talk about fate) and Das alte Lied (The Old Song). Ula Stöckl was the first female film director from western Germany to go to Dresden immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall to shoot a somewhat different version of the national anthem, the »Lied der Deutschen«. The complexity or even impossibility of reunification is at the core of her ‘on-the-ground report’ – deep, insurmountable rifts, in people’s private lives as well as in the political sphere.

Both films of IFFF Revisited will be shown in the presence of the director on April 2 at 1 pm at Filmforum NRW.