Female virtues

Desire and sexuality are becoming the tools with which we may dismantle the rotten patriarchal world. It’s high time to remember emancipation and dignity, the right to self-determination and pleasure. Let’s not allow ourselves to be reduced to the “medieval” patterns of femininity, the duty to fulfil the expectations of others, and the dictatorship of a gender regime that continually controls and programmes our behaviours, desires, and fantasies.

In this section of the festival you will see, among others, the revolutionary visual manifesto “Cum as you are” (Hanna Schaich), the sister-siren étude about support and care “Offense against modesty” (Valentina Ximena & Catalina Sofia), and the Polish premiere of the uncompromising “Natural Pleasures” (Aga Szreder & Rafał Żwirek) about what it means to be a forty-something female-identifying person in a country like Poland. Let’s not be afraid to talk about ourselves. There are infinitely many of us, and we’re coming for you.