The Film All-Nighter showcases contemporary feminist works by both emerging and established female filmmakers. Across fourteen films, the main characters sharpen their nails. They confront traumatic experiences, intolerable circumstances and normative role models through creative artistic means. In doing so, they refuse to remain stuck where they started, opting instead to take a critical look at the structural conditions. They use verbal wit and, at times, a sharp tongue; through shifts in perspective; through the ingenious interweaving of cinematic genres and documentary material with experimental practices. Ladies, Sharpen Your Nails!
Grew up in the Ruhr. Spent a year in the cinemas of Paris and discovered her love for film. Studied film, television and theatre, Romance languages & literature and social psychology at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Worked on the Ruhr University’s student-run International Video Festival, and subsequently has worked for various film festivals (incl. the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the Dok & Videofest Kassel) as well as a freelance curator and translator.
»At every IFFF Dortmund+Köln I get the chance to discover inspiring films that I would otherwise never get to see.«
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces […]