desired! – film lust & queer

Dr Natascha Frankenberg is a film and media scholar. She currently works as a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies at Ruhr Universität Bochum. Her academic work also focuses on queer-feminist topics. Her dissertation was published in 2021 under the title »Queere Zeitlichkeiten in dokumentarischen Filmen« by transcript Verlag and is available Open Access.
At the IFFF she is responsible for the section for queer film: begehrt!

Atlanta Ina Beyer studied cultural work in Potsdam. She lectures in the Gender and Diversity degree programme at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kleve. She is also currently finishing her dissertation on queer utopias in the aesthetic strategies of queer, audio/visual punk productions. She previously spent many years as editor of a daily newspaper and also as artistic co-director of the queer/feminist spoken-word show »Shut Up and (Sign_)Speak« in Berlin. For IFFF Dortmund+Köln, she has co-screened films for the »desired« section.

Leah Gerfelmeyer returned to the Ruhr to take a Master’s degree in Media and Gender Studies, and is now a firm fan of her adopted home of Gelsenkirchen and a member of the [kuʃ]kollektiv, which is based in the city. She will soon be moving to Bayreuth to research Germany’s colonial past in West Africa. Since 2022, together with Natascha Frankenberg, she views the submissions for the section begehrt! – filmlust queer.