Dominating systems, their norms, values, and actors delimit order, normalcy, and interests. In so doing, they forcefully alienate those who transgress these boundaries. Through crystalizing directors’ feminist and queer gaze, the festival renders systemic violence and determinism visible. Its screen is a mirror of our feelings of anger and disgust in asking ── Whom are we afraid of and why? whom do we despise? Mediation of these questions through animation, body-horror, glittercore, installation, photography, and musical, birth fictions that expose and subvert repressed societal fears, desires, and rage. In their footsteps, our transformations into vampires, werewolves, and cyborgs are both horrifying and liberating; the enlivening of forgotten goddesses, also, and femmes ── pronounced acts of resistance.
The festival as a process engenders the multiplicity of our entanglements and possible futures. In imagining, this year’s ‘From Rosa to Simone’ is dedicated to the sadness, questioning, discoveries, and joys of othering.
Who documents and how represents women's experiences is one of the principal issues for feminist ethics. In this context, the politics of experience is a resistance aimed at rethinking and dismantling hegemonic forms of thought.
Filmmaking as a means of feminist resistance - is the main theme of the 2023 edition of the feminist film festival From Rosa to Simone.
This year's film program focuses on the works of female and non-binary directors, where the authors offer a unique representation of their own experiences and those of the protagonists.
During the festival, together with the participating directors and the audience, we will discuss filmmaking as a practice of documenting experiences, of producing alternative memory and of holding a dialogue between women separated in time and space.
These contents become particularly resistant to the given dominant order, which offers linear, ahistorical and empty meanings of progress, development and freedom.
This year's program is presented by the Women's Initiatives Support Group as part of the campaign Touchpoints - Why We Need Intersectional Feminism?
Screenings will be held at Amirani cinema, Hall 3, on March 3, 4 and 5. Screenings start at 17:00.