Sunday, March 8, 2020 - 14:30
Feminist Love Talks – Shorts: Questioning traditional relationships
Screening and talk by Marilia Moschkovich
Location & Time: Berliner Union Film Ateliers - 14:30
Tickets available online here
Event Information
Feminist love talks is a curated program by Brazilian activist and sociologist Marilia Moschkovich. The program looks at the intersection of violence and love and questions traditional and normative relationship structures.
What is love? How do we learn to love, and why is it sometimes so similar to violence and control? What is the relationship between domestic violence and romance? What can we learn from non-traditional relationship models in order to end gender violence in relationships?
These questions have been approached by the Brazilian sociologist Marilia Moschkovich as a German Chancellor Fellow, funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in partnership with the Berlin Feminist Film Week. These issues shaped this short film program and will be discussed right after the screening together with Marilia Moschkovich.
Films
A mulher que eu era (The woman I was)/ Brazil, 12 min – Fiction by Karen Suzane Silva
A black woman struggles to get rid of colonial standards of love and marriage.
Viva, Maria, Viva! (Long live Mary!)/ Brazil, 27 min – Documentary by Caroline Araújo
Different straight and LGBT older women reflect on the role of marriage, divorce, widowhood and time in their lives.
Tamagotchi (Tamagotchi)/ Brazil, 23 min, Fiction by Fernanda Barcellos
In a dystopic near future, Laura meets Agatha who is too perfect for her.
Dublê (Proxy), Brazil, 12 min – Fiction by Fernanda Barcellos
Proxy is an app that allows anyone to rent a person to show up for them in events they can’t attend – a hardcore discussion of a tense relationship, for instance.
Sweet Heart (Sweet Heart)/ Brazil, 21 min – Fiction by Amina Jorge
A Chinese-Brazilian teenager’s journey discovering the city and her own sexuality intensifies when she becomes interested in her parent’s restaurant’s new employee
Speaker
Marilia Moschkovich is a Brazilian sociologist with a PhD in Social Sciences and Education. She’s been a feminist activist for the past decade and experienced non-monogamous relationships since 2014, recently making it into her research object.