FEMALE FRAME REDISCOVERED

Starting on March 8th (International Women’s Day) we continue our Female Frame series on the representation of women in film with an inspiring selection of four ‘rediscovered’ films by female directors and about female characters. Female Frame Rediscovered will celebrate a far too often overlooked archive of highly influential cinema.

On International Women’s Day, the world focuses on gender inequality. The film industry faces gender inequalities ubiquitously as well; the celluloid ceiling still largely determines women’s positions in the industry. Both female directors and leading actresses are structurally underrepresented. A pervasive excuse is the supposed lack of talented female directors. With Female Frame we are proving the sceptics wrong. From the 8th of March on we will screen a varied selection of overlooked directors such as Julie Dash (Daughters Of The Dust), Barbara Loden (Wanda), The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye) and Claudia Weill (Girlfriends).