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Written by Anami Tara
Shucart & Elizabeth E.
Schuch, Directed by
Elizabeth E. Schuch, UK,
2017
When a fragile,
imaginative teenager is
placed in a remote
convent, will her unusual
obsessions and
hallucinations become a
mark of sainthood or dark
heresy? Reserved teen Birdie is sequestered to a life of religious servitude by her
grandmother, in the hope that it will suppress the young girl‘s dark thoughts. Now far from
home, her interests remain far from pious, as she develops a fascination with blood and
sparks a romance with the groundkeeper's daughter. This haunting and aesthetically
arresting directorial debut of Elizabeth E. Schuch features an all-woman cast.
(German Premiere)
Feature: BOOK OF BIRDIE (1:31 :00) 20:30
Feature: LYLE + Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can’t Fix 22:30
(09:17 + 01:05:00)
Nothing a Little Soap and Water
Can’t Fix
Directed by Jennifer Proctor, US, 2017
In films, as in life, the bathtub
represents a private space for women -
a place not only to groom, but to relax,
to think, to be alone, to find sanctuary.
For Hollywood, though, it's also a place of naked vulnerability, where women narratively
placed in harm's way have no escape. Using appropriated movies, this experimental found
footage work deconstructs the representations of women in this domestic space as
historically framed in popular film.
(German Premiere)
LYLE
Written and Directed by Stewart Thorndike, US,
2014
A mother’s grief turns to paranoia when she begins
to suspect her eccentric neighbors are involved in a
satanic pact. Starring Gaby Hoffmann (Transparent,
Girls) and Ingrid Jungermann (Women Who Kill), and
paying homage to Rosemary’s Baby, this queer
psychological horror brings the viewer through a
nightmarish journey of gaslighting, loss, loneliness,
and mistrust.
(Berlin Premiere)