She regularly presents historical film programmes at cinemas and film festivals, chairs film talks and panel discussions and gives lectures on film and cinema.įrom to, Borjana was media spokesperson for the German Association of Municipal and Cultural Cinemas, and editor of the cinema quarterly Kinema Kommunal. Her work focuses on representations of history and medialities of historiography, European cinema of the 1960s, women and film, and war and trauma in film. The 2021 programme features a group of students from Ruhr University in Bochum presenting the subject of Club culture.īorjana Gaković is a film and media scholar, curator and author as well as a lecturer in film and cinema culture. In 2020, Berlin scholar Kat Gorska curated a selection of experimental films from the 70s and 80s. The signature of the curators of this programme comes through in the films they select. She has the knack of putting documentary elements centre stage while incorporating a fictional dimension, in order to make a stand against the unbearable conditions and circumstances as they really are. The doyen of New German Cinema has had a key influence on feminist film history since the 1960s. 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. 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. 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). The long-term aim of this programme is to strengthen queer-feminist historical representation and memory culture. By our curators combing through the archive, different themes and aspects possibly overlooked in the past can be spotlighted, thus connecting links in the history of emancipation and film where none were previously present (or visible).
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In this archive programme 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.