Opening: Berlin Feminist Film Week 2019

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We’re opening the Berlin Feminist Film Week 2019 program with a double queer screening!

▼ RIOT NOT DIET / 2018 / Julia Fuhrmann / Germany / 17 min ▼

A golden summer dress in XXL, the ice-lolly drips slowly onto the hot ground. RIOT NOT DIET creates a queer feminist utopia far away from BMI norms and male gaze.
The fat women and queers in this movie are not ashamed of their expansive body dimensions, but confidently claim space for themselves. They use their bodies to blow up patriarchal structures and enjoy their corporeality beyond the neoliberal logic of exploitation. In times of self-optimization, your belly is a statement!

▼ The Miseducation of Cameron Post / 2018 / Desiree Akhavan / United States / 90 min ▼

A queer coming-of-age story set in the 90s – this is the premise of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a film that earned writer/director Desiree Akhavan the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival in 2018.

Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) as she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle) and her brother, Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.)—himself an example of how those in the program can be “cured”—the center is built upon repenting for “same sex attraction.” In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane (Sasha Lane), and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam (Forrest Goodluck). Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, is contrary to what one might think, less about the evils of conversion therapy and more about sexual awakening, friendship and the society’s need to label anything “devious” from the norm as dangerous.