Tricky Women / Tricky Realities Animation Festival 2025
Festival Description
The festival is always held in Vienna in March around International Women´s Day. TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES is worldwide the only big recurring festival of animated films by female*/trans/inter creators
2025 Call for Entries
TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES is accepting entries for the 2025 festival edition, taking place in Vienna from the March 5-9, 2025. TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES focuses on animated films made by women and/or genderqueer artists and therefore fills a unique position within the international festival landscape.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The festival offers an international competition of animated short films finished after January 1st, 2023 and realised by female/queer-feminist artists (male co-directors are welcome). Each filmmaker, producer or distributor may submit as many films as they like.
NEW COMPETITION CATEGORY: VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) AND MIXED REALITY (MR)
We welcome projects with high artistic quality and unique experiences that thrive in the virtual realm, both linear and non-linear narratives. This program is a cooperation with XR Vienna.
SPECIAL CALLS: OUT OF COMPETITION
The special calls for our non-competitive categories are not limited to current works – feel free to send us as many of your films as you like, whether new or “old” (but not already submitted ones). We are very much looking forward to receiving your entries!
- Work / Work Affairs: This program positions labor as a lens through which we can view the world. This can include (but is not limited to) films about economic exploitation, emancipation, maternal/domestic/emotional labor and how we determine value. This program is supported by Arbeiterkammer Wien.
- Feminist Topics: This program explores asymmetrical power dynamics relative to gender. Relevant films could be about the body, motherhood, abortion, activists, objectification and subjective experiences of tricky realities.
- Fair Play: This program navigates the paths to justice in inherently unjust institutions. Topics could include identity politics (age, disability, race, gender, sexuality etc), equality of opportunity, climate change, ecofeminism and alternative visions of a just world. This program is supported by Arbeiterkammer Wien.
- Animated Documentaries
- Regulations and Entry via FilmFreeway
- Deadline: 6 October 2023
2023 Festival Coverage
Festival trailer by Maja Gehrig
Maja Gehrig: "In this trailer, the hidden beauty and sexuality of the statistical visualization is made visible. The diagrams are breaking free from the straitjacket of their coordinates."
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Event Dates
- From 05/03/2025 to 09/03/2025
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