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Tricky Women/Tricky Realities

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2024: First Highlights

The complete festival program of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2024 will be published on February 19, 2024 at online.trickywomen.at. In advance, we reveal the first highlights ...Read more

Festival Trailer Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2024

Our new festival trailer is out! It was designed by Mel Arranz. Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2024 takes place from March 6 to 10.

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TAKE, BREAK, REMAKE: Recent Animated Films by Austrian Artists

We happily introduce the 5th edition of our curated program of Austrian animation in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Festival Trailer Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2023

Diagrams are breaking free! We proudly present: The trailer for Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2023. The trailer was created by Maja Gehrig with music by Joy Frempong.Read more

Festival Trailer Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022

The women of this trailer, all very different, are oddly similar. What’s connecting them? -  Our new festival trailer was created by Héloïse Ferlay ...Read more

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022 - March 9-13

Sujet

The next festival edition of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities will take place March 9-13, 2022.Read more

Online Series of animated films: Klappe Auf! - November, 26 - December, 7, 2021

Togehter with Austrian organisations in the field of women's and development policy we present a series of animated films as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence.Read more

Now Online: Talks, Lectures and Spotlights of TW/TR 2021

The lectures, as well as the spotlights and live talks by and with Caroline Leaf and Signe Baumane can now be viewed online on our Vimeo channel.Read more

On Travelling, Matters of the Heart and Peripheries

In Her Boots, Kathrin Steinbacher, AT 2019

This year we are happy to introduce the fourth edition of the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities film program in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.Read more

TRAILER Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021

"But from our great tears has emerged a new way. So, come celebrate with us our 20th birthday!" - Our new festival trailer was created by Renee Zhan ...Read more

16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence

The online film series for "Klappe auf!" ran from November 26th to December 7th. We are looking forward to a continuation next year. Every year, "Klappe auf!" organizes a campaign to raise awareness of violence against women* and girls*. Read more

Preview: Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021 - Online Edition

Birthdays cannot be postponed, not even due to a global pandemic. From March 10 to 14 we celebrate twenty years of passionate commitment to the visibility of female* filmmakers ONLINE! With glitter and glory and love and passion! Stay tuned.

The program will be online in Mid-February.Read more

BRIGHT SPOTS & PUSHING BOUNDARIES

Recent animations by Austrian women artists

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solar mechanix 1.1, Martina Tritthart, AT 2018

With this program TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES we once again put the experimental animated film work of Austrian women artists at the center of attention. The films tour the world in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs.Read more

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES @ Int. Comic Salon Erlangen 2020

On July 10th the International Comic Salon Erlangen starts in a digital edition. On board is also a program curated by Tricky Women/Tricky Realities.Read more

TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020

The new festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020 was created by Rachel Gutgarts. Rachel won the 3-month-scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence program at Tricky Women 2018 for her film "A Love Letter To The One I Made Up". The trailer was made during her residency in Vienna in the spring of 2019.

Rachel Gutgarts about the trailer: A glimpse out of an imaginary nature TV show - A windy...Read more

Stay Tricky!

TW/TR goes Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund, 9. - 14.4.2019

The Man-Woman Case

The Man Woman Case, Anaïs Caura, FR 2017

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES films travel to the International Women's Filmfestival (Frauenfilmfestival) in Dortmund! In line with the festival focus 3 short films and the crime thriller The Man Woman Case - which will also open the festival - will be screened.Read more

Winners

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019

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III, Marta Pajek, PL 2018

The juries of the International and the Up & Coming competition picked this year's winners!Read more

Meet the filmmakers

Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2019

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019, Ulla Klopf

We asked our international guests: What makes you a Tricky Woman?Read more

Chinese Ink Painting & Animation Workshop

With Jin Yu and Susi Jirkuff

Chinese Ink Painting & Animation Workshop

Photo: Jin Yu

Register now and learn the fascinating technique!Read more

The future is female: Design Thinking

Workshop with Hilda Tellioglu and Marlene Wagner

Design Thinking Workshop

Photo: aspern.mobil LAB

Register now and conceptualise new approaches!Read more

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019

March 13 - 17 at METRO Kinokulturhaus

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019 Trailer von Marta Pajek

Stay tricky! What do the current social, political and digital changes mean and how can we react to them? TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES takes a closer look with independent animated films by women*, workshops, lectures and discussions.Read more

TRICKY WOMEN GOES WELS II

Sous tes doigts | Under your Fingers

Sous tes doigts | Under your Fingers, Marie-Christine Courtès, FR 2014

FIFTITU%, Programmkino Wels and TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES invite you to a second film screening in Wels on February 14, 19:00.Read more

TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019

Animation artist Marta Pajek, well known for her award winning surreal, multi-layered films, created the festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019. Marta won the 3-month scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the artist-in-residence program at Tricky Women 2017 for her film "Impossible Figures and Other Stories II". The trailer was made during her stay in Vienna last fall. The sound design is by Michał Jankowski.

Marta Pajek about the trailer: “For the TRICKY...Read more

Long Night Of Short Films In Wels

Rabbitland, Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak Jr., RS 2013

Tricky Women goes Wels! FIFTITU% invites you to a Long Night Of Short Films featuring Tricky Women audience favourites and award winning films.Read more

Tricky Women @ China Independent Animation Film Forum

My Milk Cup Cow, Yantong Zhu, JP 2014

My Milk Cup Cow, Yantong Zhu, JP 2014

Tricky Women audience favourites as well as international jury awarded animations of the last festival editions will be screened at the China Independent Animation Film Forum (15.-18.11.2018) in Beijing.Read more

Filmscreening and Artist Talk with animator Marta Pajek

Impossible Figures and Other Stories II, Marta Pajek, PL 2016

Tricky Women Artist-in-Residence Marta Pajek will personally present her film triptych Impossible Figures and Other Stories in Vienna on 5.11.2018.Read more

Tricky Women@IndieAnifest Seoul, 13.-18.9.2018

Abuelas, Afarin Eghbal

Tricky Women curated two programs for the Indie-AniFest - "Secret Desire - Issues of Gender and Sexuality" and "Awakening und Changing", which will be presented by Festival Directress Waltraud Grausgruber; moreover Waltraud will be a member of the jury as well.Read more

Tricky Women 2019: Call

Thank you for your submissions!

Submissions were possible until October 5th 2018. The 16th festival edition will take place from March 13th - 17th 2019.Read more

Workshop: Empowerment with Animation

Moїa Jobin-Paré (Tricky Women 2018 Trailer) | Photo: Christian Duval

Register now and learn the fascinating technique of Canadian based artist Moїa Jobin-Paré!Read more

TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN 2018

Festival Trailer Tricky Women 2018 (Regie: Moïa Jobin-Paré // Q21/MQ Artist in Residence 2017).

Captured in Vienna! Canadian filmmaker and artist Moïa Jobin-Paré created the festival trailer for Tricky Women 2018!Read more

TURBULENT TIMES, FAMILIAR PLACES

Princess Disaster Movie, Xenia Ostrovskaya (AT 2014)

With this program Tricky Women assembles contemporary positions of Austrian female animation filmmakers which tour the world with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs.Read more

KEPT IN THE PICTURE – ANIMATION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Part 4: Biographies

Filmstill aus Rocks in my Pockets (Signe Baumane, US 2014)

The last film program of the series "Kept in the Picture - Animation and the Unconscious" deals with biographies. Read more

KEPT IN THE PICTURE – ANIMATION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Part 3: Body & Sexuality

Filmstill from Snępowina / Sleepincord (Marta Pajek, PL 2011)

The third and forelast evening of the film series is dedicated to the complex of body and sexuality.Read more

Kept in the Picture – Animation and the Unconscious

Part 2: Self and External Perception

Filmstill Hezurbeltzak / A Common Grave (Izibene Oñederra, ES 2007)

Within the framework of the Vienna Art Week Tricky Women and the Sigmund Freud Museum are iniviting to the second film screening of the series "Kept in the Picture - Animation and the Unconscious".Read more

Kept in the Picture – Animation and the Unconscious

Part 1: The Classics

Filmstill Repete (Michaela Pavlátová, CZ 1995) 

Tricky Women and the Sigmund Freud Museum are inviting to a film series in which animation calls the tune. The ways in which animation takes the ineffable in its views should be the core of four film screenings. The first evening is dedicated to four classics of animation.Read more

Tricky Realities

Animationsfilmsammlung gegen Gewalt und Sexismus

In Kooperation mit der MA 57 - Frauenservice Wien und dem Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animation Festival ist eine Animationsfilm-Compilation entstanden, die sich mit den Themen Alltagssexismus, veraltete Rollenbilder und Gewalt gegen Frauen auseinandersetzt...Read more

Exhibition revisited: Marta Pajek at Bildraum 07

Vom 10. bis 24. März konnten die Ausstellungsbesucher:innen in die surreale Parallelwelt der polnischen Ausnahmekünstlerin Marta Pajek eintauchen.

Awarded Films Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022

DIVARE CHAHAROM / THE FOURTH WALL, Mahboobeh Kalaee, IR 2021

 

Awarded Films Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2023

 

Tricky Women - International Animation Filmfestival Vienna