APOLONIA, APOLONIA

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Director: Lea Glob

2022 / 116' / Denmark, Poland

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first met Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a storybook life. Over the years, Lea kept returning to film Apolonia as she sought her place in the art world, grappling with the agonies and joys of womanhood, the relationships with others and her own body and creation. 13 years on, the two women continue to reflect on each other's paths in this mesmerizing film about art, love, motherhood, sexuality, representation and how to succeed in a world dominated by patriarchy, capitalism, and war, without losing oneself.

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BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER

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Director: Nina Menkes

2022 / 107' / USA

Sub: GEO ENG

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"Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is a mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream that will forever change the way you see and make films. Director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike to confront how the visual language of cinema is used to disempower women at the most fundamental level. Using more than 175 film clips from canonical Hollywood favourites and cult classics as well as interviews with filmmakers and scholars, the film reveals a sinister framework of misogyny and paternalism that, from early cinema to the present day, infiltrates some of our favourite movies.

MUTZENBACHER

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Director: Ruth Beckermann

2022 / 101 / Austria

Sub: ქარ ENG

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For more than a hundred years, the novel, “Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore”, has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Though published anonymously, the novel has over the years been attributed to the Austrian writer, Felix Salten (the author of “Bambi”), and despite being banned for a period has also been celebrated as a world-renowned work of Viennese literature.

 

Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on the well-known pornographic novel: “Looking for men between the ages of 16 and 99.” Shot in a former coffin factory, the film, MUTZENBACHER, sees a hundred readers confronted with excerpts from the text. And just as in real life, reading these “offensive” passages on the set evokes not only personal memories and erotic fantasies, but also reactions of denial, rejection, self-distancing and strategies of justification. We live and love in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at the same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.

TO BOOKS AND WOMEN I SING

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Director: María Elorza

2022 / 71' / Spain

Sub: ქარ ENG

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Standing against fire, water, moths, dust, ignorance and fanaticism, an anonymous female army looks after books. An intimate resistance, lacking epic events, revolution or weapons. ​

LOVE HOTEL

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Directors: Philip Cox, Hikaru Toda

2014 / 80' / United Kingdom, Japan

Sub: ქარ ENG

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In Japan, long working hours, cramped living spaces and the need for privacy drive many people to establishments that discreetly cater to lovers and their needs.

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Preceded by a short

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AN ASIAN GHOST STORY

რეჟისორი: Director: Bo Wang

2023 /37' / Hong Kong, Netherlands 

Sub: ქარ ENG​

 

Wigs played a vital role in the rise of the Asian economy in the post-war era. In the heyday of the 1960s, it ranked as the fourth-largest export in Hong Kong's export-orientated industrialization.

This project examines the role of Hong Kong as a transient space that mediates and sanitizes the connection between different worlds.​​

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SEARCHING EVA

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Director: Pia Hellenthal

2019 / 84' / Germany

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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Eva, 25, drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist, model, declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, and challenging the definitions of what a woman should be.

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Preceded by a short

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EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN A CRIMINAL

 

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot

2006 / 10' / France

Sub: ქარ ENG​

 

Reflection on the archive images of the end of the Second World War in France.​​

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ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

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Director: Paul B. Preciado

2023 / 98'  / France

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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It is a debut essay film by the Spanish philosopher and writer Paul B. Preciado, a kind of collective autobiography narrated by the author through the gender transition stories of more than 20 characters in the film.

 

The film is a bold and cheerful reflection on Virginia Woolf's well-known satirical novel 'Orlando,' in which the main character undergoes a sex change and travels through time. Preciado references Woolf's writings through theatrical portrayals and challenges us to re-imagine them from a contemporary and critical lens and with festive lightness, aims to immortalize in history those characters whose stories have not been preserved in the writings of the past.

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WOMEN

Director: Vaja Zubashvili

1990 / 25' / Georgia   Sub: ქარ ENG​

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Documentary film director Vaja Zubashvili describes dreams and reality of Soviet women of various age groups, education and social backgrounds.

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WHY I NEVER BECAME THE DANCER

Director: Tracey Emin

1995 / 7' / United Kingdom  Sub: ქარ ENG

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Like the majority of Tracey Emin’s works, Why I Never Became a Dancer is autobiographical. Emin recalls her teenage bid to leave the seaside town of Margate, where she had grown up, by entering the British Dancing Championship.

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ASPARAGUS

Director: Suzann Pitt

1979 / 20' / USA Sub: ქარ ENG​

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Throwing open the doors of perception onto a shape-shifting vision of polymorphous sexuality and a mesmerizing exploration of the artist's inner world.

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LOVE IS ALL

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Director: Kim Longinotto

2014 / 70' / UK​

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A hundred years of love and courtship on the silver screen, with music created by celebrated Sheffield singer-songwriter-producer Richard Hawley​​​​​​.​​

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IN CALIFORNIA

 

Director: Charles Redon

2015 / 77' / France

Sub: GEO ENG

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Charles Redon immerses himself in his wife's environment, the ballet dancing, and starts documenting it. Slowly, he begins to understand that he can build a drama with his own life. ​​

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TRANSNISTRA

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Director: Anna Eborn

2019 / 95' / Sweden, Denmark

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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She loves me? She loves me not? Uncertainty dominates the lives of youngsters in the tiny, unrecognised state of Transnistria. ​

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THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE

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Director: Marie Losier

2011 / 72' / France, USA

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of groundbreaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project.

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Preceded by a short

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TOWARDS TENDERNESS

Director: Alice Diop

2016 / 38' / France

Sub: ქარ ENG​

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Four young men from the Paris suburbs talk about their own masculinity-both their macho facades and the fundamental desire for love that their posturing seeks to hide. The men act in a way society and their friends expect "men" to act.

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FETISHES

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Director: Nick Broomfield

1996 / 84'  / USA​

 

Fetishes is a 1996 documentary by Nick Broomfield filmed at Pandora's Box, one of New York City's most luxurious SM/fetish parlors.

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Preceded by a short

 

THE WAGES OF JOHN PERNIA

Director: Ben Yong

2023 / 8' / United Kingdom Sub: ქარ ENG​

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Charles Redon immerses himself in his wife's environment, the ballet dancing, and starts documenting it. Slowly, he begins to understand that he can build a drama with his own life.

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