Save the Date: Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days: 2-11 November 2018

On behalf of Kinothek Asta Nielsen:

We’re happy to announce that the inaugural edition of Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days, a new event presented by Kinothek Asta Nielsen, will take place in Frankfurt am Main from 2 -11 November 2018.
Curated by Gaby Babić, Karola Gramann, Heide Schlüpmann

Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days will be held regularly in the future. The event will provide a more extensive framework for the Kinothek’s work, increasing the visibility of past and present film work by women, and to encourage the screening of films in their original formats.

The Kinothek Asta Nielsen’s specific task is to make films which are relevant to awareness of, and reflection on, gender relations accessible to a wide audience. With this in mind, we are incorporating our previous work into a focussed event format. Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days will have a thematic focus and will unfold in a mixture of festival and symposium.

Remake 2018 will celebrate double anniversaries: “100 years of women’s suffrage” and “50 years of feminist film work.”  The 2018 festival takes place in conjunction with the exhibit and event series “Votes for Women – The 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in Germany” presented by the Historisches Museum Frankfurt. Our historically-structured programme, extending from the suffragette films of the early 20^th century to the present, will trace the legal system as it applies to women, the shift in female self-image that has gone along with it, and the ongoing debates about sexual politics in films. In the age of #MeToo and disputes over abortion rights these are topics that haven’t lost their relevance. In addition to this broad programme, Remake will launch a retrospective on the development of feminist film festivals. This year’s kick-off is an homage to the Women’s Event of the 1972 Edinburgh International Film Festival. A third element of our festival is a solo exhibition, dedicated to rediscovering and safeguarding the work of a woman filmmaker from the Rhein-Main region. This year, we feature the work of Recha Jungmann.

Remake. Frankfurt Women’s Film Days is supported by HessenFilm und Medien GmbH and the Women’s Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
Partners are the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen, the Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. / Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Historisches Museum Frankfurt, and Pupille – Kino in der Uni.

Further information on the festival concept, programme and venues will be published in early October 2018 on www.remake-festival.de where you can subscribe to our newsletter. 

Remake. Frankfurter Frauen Film Tage is funded by HessenFilm und Medien GmbH and the Frauenreferat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Women’s Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main).