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Nearly 50 years have passed since the introduction of women’s suffrage in Switzerland, and 25 years since the women’s strike, Switzerland largest demonstration ever. We would like to know the following: What motivated these women? Which wrongs were they fighting? Why has the journal «Lesbenfront» disappeared? What about the women’s conferences in the Paulus-Akademie and Boldern? What are current queerfemtransinterlesb* activities? What are the issues of the «Grossmütter-Revolution» (grandmother’s revolution)? Why do we still need exclusive women’s spaces such as the Frauen*Zentrum? How has the University of Zurich’s journal «Rosa-Rot» featuring feminist and gender issues survived for over 25 years? And: what do we still need to change?
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Preview Feature film
In 1971 France, a young girl from a rural family moves to Paris and begins a life-changing affair with a feminist activist. t's not long before Delphine is drawn to the dynamic Carole (Cécile de France), who heads up a feminist group. Carole has a boyfriend, but the two women quickly discover their mutual affection and become an inseparable couple. This bliss is interrupted, however, when Delphine's father falls sick and she must return to the farm — and to her mother — to assure its continued existence. The film kicks into high gear as Carole must choose whether to stay in Paris, or to follow Delphine…