SECTION: Don't Call me Vintage!

The four films in this program all emerged in the 1980s, a decade marked by both political upheavals and the gradual crumbling of old certainties. Each film brings a distinct female perspective, highlighting heroines who confront history, ideology, and personal struggles with resilience and depth. Whether it is Mészáros’s semi-autobiographical portrait of postwar Hungary, Gogoberidze’s poetic chronicle of a woman’s life across Georgia’s turbulent 20th century, Laius’s unflinching drama of motherhood set against perestroika-era Estonia, or Enyedi’s magical meditation on cinema and modernity, these works demonstrate the richness and complexity of women’s voices in European cinema. Collectively, they remind us of the power of film to intertwine the personal and the political, the intimate and the historical.

Curation & texts: Lenka Tyrpáková