GRANDMAMAUNTSISTERCAT
A film by Zuza Banasińska
2024 | 23 mins | Digital Video | Color | 25fps
Grandmamauntsistercat, created using found footage from the Polish Educational Archive, tells the story of a matriarchal family seen through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.
Awards
2024 Teddy Award for Best Short Film - The Queer Film Award at Berlinale (DE)
2024 Dutch Competition Winner - GoShort International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (NL)
2024 Best Short Film - Sicilia Queer Film Festival (IT)
2024 Special Mention - Hamburg Short Film Festival (DE)
2024 Night Award - Festival Signes de Nuit (TH)
2024 Experimental Region Winner - Blue Danube Film Festival (AT/HU)
2024 ExperimentalEAST Award - BEAST Film Festival (PT)
2024 Dada International Award - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (CA)
2024 Palmarès Competition - Festival des cinéma différents et expérimentaux de Paris (FR)
Screenings
2024 Revising The Text - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 Forum Expanded - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale), Berlin (DE)
2024 International Competition - IndieLisboa, Lisboa (PT)
2024 NL2. The Place I Belong - GoShort International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, Nijmegen (NL)
2024 DocAlliance Program - Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH)
2024 Block 1: A Different Narrative - Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw (PL)
2024 International Shorts: Future - Lichter Film Festival, Frankfurt (DE)
2024 ALT Shorts: See and Be Seen - Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle (US)
2024 From Women For Everyone - Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2024 Shorts 4: Intergenerational Bonds - XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2024 IC 3: Sounds Come By, Ruffling My Soul - Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg (DE)
2024 Tides in Ties - REACHING, Shenzhen (CN)
2024 Pirates, Fauns and Demons - Art Center La Paneira, Lleida (ES)
2024 Queer Short - Sicilia Queer Film Festival, Palermo (IT)
2024 Main program - Vox Feminae, Zagreb (HR)
2024 Shortlist set 1 -New Horizons, Wroclaw (PL)
2024 Doc Alliance Program - FIDMarseille, Marseille (FR)
2024 HER Docs x FilmPOLSKA: Good Girls No More - FilmPolska, Berlin (DE)
2024 Experimental Shorts - Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne (AU)
2024 EYE On Art - EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Lago20: In search of shot time - Lago Film Festival, Revine (IT)
2024 Official competition Experimental East - BEAST International Film Festival, Porto(PT)
2024 Docufiction - DMZ International Documentary Festival, Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
2024 International Shorts - Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (IS)
2024 Shorts Program 6 - Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago (US)
2024 Cinema in Transgression - Festival Signes de Nuit, Bangkok (TH)
2024 Queering the Archive - Queer Film Festival Utrecht, Utrecht (NL)
2024 Modes - Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver (CAN)
2024 Current Program 3: Signal to Noise - New York Film Festival, New York City (US)
2024 Les Nouveaux Alchemistes - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal (CAN)
2024 HER Docs Forum, Warsaw (PL)
2024 Transmutacion Festival de Cine Comtaporaneo - Black Canvas, Mexico City (MX)
2024 R&A Shorts: Rewriting History - Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (FI)
2024 Witches & Cowgirls (Viva La Vulva) - Queer Wave LGBTQIA+ Cyprus, Nicosia (LT)
2024 Funghi.Shorts - Vilnius Queer Festival Krievés, Vilnius (LT)
2024 Official Selection: Experimental Region - Blue Danube Film Festival, Vienna (AU) & Budapest (HU)
2024 Compétition #5 - Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris, Paris (FR)
2024 Video Power Now! - Transitions, Maastricht(NL)
2024 Future Distorted - Uppsala Short film Festival, Uppsala(SW)
2024 Experimental 2: Atomes Déviants - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne (CH)
2024 When We Encounter the World - Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria(CAN)
2024 Short Film Programme 4: Forms of Freedom - Viennale, Vienna(AT)
2024 The Youth Perspective - Spektrum Film Festival, Swidnica(PL)
2024 Female Tongues- Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel(DE)
2024 Herstory - Jakarta Film Week, Jakarta(ID)
2024 Future Campus - Festival dei Popoli, Florence(IT)