{"id":877,"count":1,"description":"<em>IFFF Revisited<\/em> unearths treasures from the festival archive and presents them to a transgenerational audience. The aim is to bring the feminist film heritage to the fore and to carry its significance into the here and now. For our guest curator, the filmmaker, author and curator <strong>Biene Pilavci<\/strong>, the boundaries between personal and political resistance are fluid. Whether in her documentaries or in her curatorial work \u2013 her keen eye for the subtle power plays of patriarchal violence in relation to female sexuality does not miss even the smallest detail. She turned this gaze to the festival film collection for several days before finally settling on a milestone in German film history:\r\n\r\n<strong>Shirin\u2019s Wedding<\/strong> is one of the better known films by Helma Sanders-Brahms, whose film-making covered issues including the women\u2019s movement, work and migration. 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