{"id":16206,"date":"2025-04-24T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:15:56","slug":"achtung-berlin-film-festival-women-reshaping-german-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/16206\/achtung-berlin-film-festival-women-reshaping-german-filmmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Achtung Berlin Film Festival \u2013 Women reshaping German filmmaking\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
While women have long contributed both in front of and behind the camera, only recently have their voices begun to gain visibility in national cinema. This progress, however, seems to have encountered a more complex turn with the 2025 reform of the German Film Funding Act (FFG) which removed a key paragraph promoting diversity. This article explores the impact of this new law through four distinct women\u2019s perspectives, showing how far we have come and how much further we need to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the\u00a0small Wolf Kino at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival, laughter broke out as the audience, largely women, saw their own experiences reflected on screen. I was there to watch \u201cSpielerinnen\u201d (Game Changers), a documentary by Aysun Bademsoy that reunites a Turkish women\u2019s soccer team in Berlin, 30 years after their first game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n She mostly focuses on telling women’s stories about identity, culture and more, which is why she said: \u201cThe really important thing for me was to work with girls, I make films about women, so you can’t go with a man in their private room.\u201d<\/strong> Her choice to work with all-female crews speaks to a deeper need for trust, intimacy, and safe storytelling spaces. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n