About the special film programme:

And the afternoon at the MM Centre is quite unique. At 4 pm, a member of the jury of the Student and Croatian Film Competition, co-founder of the Vienna festival Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Waltraud Grausgruber prepared a special film programme under the title ‘Moms on Fire and Other Acts of Liberation’ that opens up space for female and gender non-conforming perspectives – images that irritate, challenge and transform, question social conventions and explore alternative ways of seeing, and whose focus is bodies, relationships and biographies in flux. The programme is named after the film by Joanne Rytel, but also includes works by other women masters of classical and contemporary animation such as Marta Pajek, Noémie Marsily and Carla Melo Gampert. Special mention should be made of Madame Potatoe by Emma Calder, who unfortunately left us forever last year. Personal, political and feminist, the film caused a sensation in 1983 with its uncompromising portrayal of women’s liberation and creativity in the context of questioning the media spectacle and representation of success. Grausgruber will personally present her programme and the festival.