NO MERCY
Germany, Austria | 2025 | 104 min | col. | English, French, Russian, Persian
When Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova shared her belief that films made by women are characterized by a particular harshness in both topic and form, the German filmmaker Isa Willinger began to ponder about this. She then decided to start a dialogue with her peers on this theme, and make a film about it. The adjective “female” is conventionally associated with “empathic” and “sensitive;” what if women’s cinema were actually cruder and more explicit than films directed by men? Discussing works filmed in different periods to track the evolution of the cinema-power relationship, the debate involved a collective reflection resulting from a many-voiced intergenerational dialogue, featuring Ana Lily Amirpour, Catherine Breillat, Jackie Buet, Margit Czenki, Virginie Despentes, Alice Diop, Valie Export, Nina Menkes, Marzieh Meshkini, Mouly Surya, Céline Sciamma, Joey Soloway, Monika Treut, and Apolline Traoré. (A.S.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Time: 9:00
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Isa Willinger
Isa Willinger is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich, earning a master's degree in Slavic studies, American studies, and sociology. Her documentary Hi, AI – Love Stories from the Future was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Documentary and won the Max Ophüls Prize. In 2020, Isa received the SISTAR Film Award for outstanding female directors. Her next film, Plastic Fantastic, dedicated to the environmental crisis, received the German Documentary Award/Audience Award, the Graine d'Or at FIFES in Cannes and the Ocean Alliance Award.
