Film Screening: Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR
When:
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 8:15p -
10:00p
Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025 8:15p -
10:00p
Where:
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$General Admission $15.00/ Member/Senior/Student $13
Hosted by:
Categories:
LGBTQ+, Movies
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=26537979
Six lesbians who created a private world for themselves despite state repression speak out about life behind the Wall in East Germany. Through intimate romances and lives as mothers and workers, these women, from both rural and metropolitan areas, found a way to exist.
Uferfrauen conveys the omnipresent feeling of loneliness as an outsider, the social taboo of homosexuality, the compulsion to conform and adapt in a repressive state - a life on the (private) fringes of society, always in personal conflict, risking the jump into the deep end or staying on the safe shore.
Despite their differences, the protagonists were all pursuing the same goal: the search for personal (love) happiness.
Barbara Wallbraun is an East German, Leipzig-based filmmaker, media teacher and moderator of film events and workshops. She worked on her debut feature-length documentary „Uferfrauen - Lesbian life and love in the GDR” for seven years. It premiered in 2019 and travelled the world. Due to COVID-restrictions this is her first in person visit to the USA.
Director: Barbara Wallbraun
Documentary, Germany · 2020
DCP, 1h 55 min.
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