Welcome to the opening of the third Berlin Feminist Film Week! We get\u00a0our week rolling on March 8th at Babylon Kino with a double screening, a live set from DUBAIS and an art video installation at the Babylon cinema in Mitte.<\/p>\n
We are kicking off our festival by celebrating the International Women’s Day and paying tribute to feminists who have fought for their rights before us and feminists from whom we can still learn new things.\u00a0This year we will turn to the black feminist movement in the 60s and 70s in Nevline Nnaji’s documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights.<\/p>\n
DUBAIS<\/a> will start the second half of the evening with a live music set where she will take us into her arabfuturistic world of music performance with projections. The main film of the evening is Jennifer Phang’s feminist sci-fi dystopia Advantageous.<\/p>\n Next to the screenings an art exhibition with video projections and experimental short films will be open to everyone throughout the night.<\/p>\n 19:00\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights \/ 2013 \/ USA \/ Nevline Nnaji<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This year’s international women’s tribute is the documentary Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights by Nevline Nnaji. Reflections Unheard is a feature length documentary, and the first of its kind to focus exclusively on black women\u2019s contributions and experiences during the Civil Rights era.<\/p>\n The feature film documentary includes archival footage and in-depth interviews with former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), SNCC\u2019s Black Women\u2019s Liberation Committee, the Black Panther Party, Third World Women\u2019s Alliance, and the National Black Women\u2019s Feminist Organization in which it is revealed how black women mobilized, fought for recognition, and raised awareness of how sexism and class issues affected women of color within and outside The Black Power Movement and mainstream feminism. Prominently featured activists include Frances Beale, Angela Davis, Kola Boof, Nikki Giovanni, Rosemari Mealy, Judy Richardson, Gwendolyn Simmons, Deborah Singletary, and Eugenia Wiltshire.<\/p>\n