97 mins |
Rated
TBC
Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
It was supposed to be a trilogy about “women and work.” It began in 2010 with EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU (THE DRIFTER), followed in 2014 by TOP GIRL ODER LA DÉFORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE, but there was no third part. Director Tatjana Turanskyj passed away on September 18, 2021, and since then she has lived on in the minds, thoughts, projects and struggles of her allies. She was a filmmaker, author, feminist, activist and had a lot to say, like here, in her feature film debut.
Greta M. (Mira Partecke) is 40, in Berlin, unemployed, an architect, mother and drinker. She drifts between job centers, gated communities, call centers and bars through a life that either doesn’t provide for women like her or wants to put them into an efficiency scheme that women like Greta don’t fit into. Instead of an earnest film about women’s issues, wage labor and gentrification, Turanskyj’s protagonist Greta dances, drinks and talks with a levity and subtle wit that is just as atypical of German cinema as Tatjana Turanskyj always was. She co-founded ProQuote Film (originally: ProQuote Regie), an association that has been promoting gender parity and diversity in film in Germany since 2014.
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Playing as part of the NEW DIRECTIONS: FILM SERIES from 13-15 April 2023, brought to you by the Goethe Institut.
Entry to the series is free and tickets can be picked up on the day for screenings on that day only. First come, first served. Online bookings are available (a non-refundable booking fee of $1.50 per ticket applies, due to the ticketing system the ticket appears with a cost of $0.01 and a booking fee of $1.50) via the Academy Cinemas website, but tickets must be picked up at least 30 mins prior to the screening, otherwise tickets will be released again.
It was supposed to be a trilogy about “women and work.” It began in 2010 with EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU (THE DRIFTER), followed in 2014 by TOP GIRL ODER LA DÉFORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE, but there was no third part. Director Tatjana Turanskyj passed away on September 18, 2021, and since then she has lived on in the minds, thoughts, projects and struggles of her allies. She was a filmmaker, author, feminist, activist and had a lot to say, like here, in her feature film debut.
Greta M. (Mira Partecke) is 40, in Berlin, unemployed, an architect, mother and drinker. She drifts between job centers, gated communities, call centers and bars through a life that either doesn’t provide for women like her or wants to put them into an efficiency scheme that women like Greta don’t fit into. Instead of an earnest film about women’s issues, wage labor and gentrification, Turanskyj’s protagonist Greta dances, drinks and talks with a levity and subtle wit that is just as atypical of German cinema as Tatjana Turanskyj always was. She co-founded ProQuote Film (originally: ProQuote Regie), an association that has been promoting gender parity and diversity in film in Germany since 2014.