Tricky Women – guest festival, films & talk

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES focuses on animated films made by women* and therefore fills a unique position within the international festival landscape.

It is no coincidence that the festival is held every March around the date of International Women's Day. We present films that open up our eyes, make the invisible visible, communicate the unspeakable and help us understand unfamiliar points of view. It is our mission to make animated films by women from all over the world available to a broader audience.

This compilation of animated documentaries covers a wide variety of topics. Some films are opening eyes, like Tailor, a heartwarming film about the experiences of transgender people, or You’re Overreacting and If I Were a Man, films about stereotypes of masculinity and femininity we share and the opposition against them. Others are quite abstract, like Average Happiness, that artfully plays with statistic and diagrams, or Measuring the Distance, a project that explores space and social segregation. Some of the films might make you even shed some tears, like The Outlander, that follows the tracks of a lonely elephant shipped to Europe in the 16th century, or Girl in the Hallway, the gruesome story about a vanished little girl, a statement about femicides.

Selection and presentation made by Waltraud Grausgruber, festival director and co-founder.