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LANGUAGES: German, English, Spanish, French | SUBTITLES: English

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Year of production: 2022

SYNOPSIS

Using an intersectional approach, the film combines the questioning of the binary concept of gender with questions about the connection between the cis-hetero norm, colonialism and capitalism. Interviews with activists in Argentina and Switzerland are embedded in performances and actions of the art-activist project "die grosse um_ordnung" (the big re_ordering), which place the body as a political instrument at the center of the debate.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

Production Company: verein für um_ordnung, Zürich, Schweiz, Sabian Baumann, Diana Bärmann
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST

Interviewees:
Fermín Eloy Acosta
Karen Bennett
Serena O. Dankwa
Fernando Davis
Meloe Gennai
Soledad Pilar Gómez
Fernanda Guaglianone
Sushila Mesquita
Cecilia Palmeiro
Alecs Recher
Susy Shock
Kalym Soria

Performers:
Navild Acosta
Brandy Butler
Rahel El-Maawi
Meloe Gennai
Edwin Ramirez
Hermes Schneider
Simone Aughterlony
Effi Mer Delamaskis
Yael Gesù
Chris Gustafsson
Khadija Makki
Dominic Schibli
Oli Skyler

Doro Schürch
Malika Khatir
Jörg Köppl

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MAIN CREDITS

Director: Sabian Baumann
Screenwriter: Sabian Baumann
Producers: Sabian Baumann, Diana Bärmann
Production Management Argentina: La Olla Producciones, Daniel Henríquez
Cinematographers: Julia Zárate, Claudia Bach, Gitta Gsell, Carlotta Holy-Steinemann
Sound: Julia Zárate, Fender Schrade, Claudia Bach, Dieter Meyer
Editing: Diana Bärmann, Additional editing: Sarah Jäger
Sound design & sound mixing: Ernesto Coba Antequera
Music: Planningtorock, Karen Bennett and Susy Shock

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Genre: Documentary
Sub-genre: Artist film, LGBTQ
Languages: German, English, Spanish, French
Country of origin: Switzerland
Year of production: 2022
Total running time: 82 minutes
Shooting format: HD
Color type: color
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Sound format: 5.1 / stereo

AWARDS

Pink Apple, Zürich, Switzerland, Audience Award for Best Documentary Film
Orchid, Lesbian Filmfestival, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, Best Documentary Winner

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

2022
Premiere: Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Germany;
Orchid Lesbian Filmfestival, Buenos Aires, Argentinia (Best Documentary Winner)
Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, Buenos Aires, Argentinia

2023
Swiss Premiere: Pink Apple, Queer Film Festival Zurich (ZKB Audience Award, best documentary film)
Tampa Bay Transgender Film Festival, Florida USA
Festival Mix: Cine y Diversidad Sexual/ Film Sexual Diversity, Santa Maria La Ribera, Mexico
Madrid Indie Film Festival, MADRIFF, Spain
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, India
Korea Queer Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Filmfestival, India
Luststreifen Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland