We are pleased to announce the date for our upcoming fifth festival: Remake will once again take place at Goethe University's Studierendenhaus from 2 to 7 December 2025.
The anniversary edition of Remake. Frankfurt Women*s Film Days will focus on generational relationships in film. The programme will examine multigenerational friendships, conflicts with the parent generation and transgenerational trauma, as well as films on the topics of decolonial filmmaking (VOICES OF THE SILENCED, Japan/South Korea 2023, dir: Park Soo-nam, Park Maeui), AIDS activism (LLOYD WONG, UNFINISHED, Canada 2025, dir: Lesley Loksi Chan) and the Sinti civil rights movement (DAS FALSCHE WORT, newly restored version, FRG 1987, dir: Katrin Seybold/Melanie Spitta). The festival itself will once again be a meeting place for different generations: protagonists of feminist filmmaking in the 1970s and 1980s, some of whom are still active in film today, will meet the middle and younger generations.
The festival’s solo retrospective pays tribute to one of the first female film and television camerawomen in the Federal Republic of Germany and, at the same time, a director who has had a significant influence on documentary filmmaking in this country: Gisela Tuchtenhagen. Born in 1943 in Köslin (Koszalin, now Poland), Gisela Tuchtenhagen belongs to the first generation of female students at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Tuchtenhagen also directed her own documentary films, often in collaboration with others. She is a multiple Grimme Award winner and has taught at the dffb, the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) and the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. Her works have already been shown in previous editions of the festival, such as EKMEK PARASI – GELD FÜRS BROT (D 1994, dir: Serap Berrakkarasu) and FÜR FRAUEN. 1. KAPITEL (BRD 1971, dir: Christina Perincioli). The intergenerational solidarity that runs like a thread through Tuchtenhagen's work is in productive dialogue with the festival's focus.
Part of Remake's concept is to honour significant women's film festivals and initiatives. This year's tribute is dedicated to Studio Tatyana, Minsk. In 1991, cinematographer Tatyana Loginova and screenwriters and directors Ella Milova and Iryna Pismennaya founded this first and only independent ‘women's film and video studio’ in the former USSR. Studio Tatyana's best-known project was the first International Women's Film Festival in Eastern Europe, which took place for the first time in Minsk in 1991. The founding of the studio was a remarkable act in many ways; it was not only dedicated to the marginalised film work of women at a time when independent Belarus was struggling with an economic crisis and state film production structures had collapsed. The studio was also part of the opposition movement. The collective's film-cultural-political work came to an end in 2003 when Aljaksandr Lukashenko, who had been in power since 1994, closed the studio. The studio's research-intensive film work is a unique source of unofficial Belarusian historiography. The Kinothek preserves extensive materials on the work of the studio/festival in its archive. These are part of the collection of Hildegard Westbeld, who was a member of the Minsk festival team. A selection of films from the studio will be shown at Remake, accompanied by discussions with former festival visitors.
Remake audiences can also look forward to a special CineConcert: pianist and composer Maud Nelissen will perform her music for King Vidor's comedy THE PATSY (USA 1928) – starring Marion Davis – in a duo with Daphne Balvers on soprano/alto saxophone.
With Remake On Location, we are expanding the programme to include film screenings and talks before and after the festival days, at different locations.
From 10 November, the festival programme will be available online and the Remake programme booklet will be available at the usual display locations throughout the city.
