Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Audre Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany.
Genre : Documentary
Contemporary Issues : Aging , Social Justice/Activism , Anti-Black Racism
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

Throughout the 70s and 80s, Audre Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States and abroad. AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.

Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while challenging white German women to acknowledge their white privilege. As Lorde wrote in her book Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” 

AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992, winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Barcelona G&L Film Festival, contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz’s personal archive, showing Lorde on and off stage. Special features include footage of Audre Lorde in Berlin, Audre reading her poems, Audre on her work, deleted scenes, trailer, interview with filmmaker Dagmar Schultz and English, Spanish, German and French subtitles.

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany. This documentary was released in 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing.

Directors : Dagmar Schultz
Markets : Documentary
Year Released : 2012
Running Time : 79
Color : Color
Country : Germany
Original Language : English/German
Translation available in : English
Streaming Partner : Alexander Street Press

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Awards

Festival Favorite Award, Palm Springs Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Documentary, Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival
Best Documentary Award, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series
Audience Award for Best Documentary, Barcelona G&L Film Festival

Screenings

World Premiere, Berlin International Film Festival, 2012
San Francisco Premiere, Frameline Film Festival, 2012
Philadelphia Q Fest, 2012
RINGE! Film Festival, London, 2012
BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, 2012
Congrès de Recherche Féministe Francophone, 2012
Audre Lorde Film and Cultural Festival, Spring and Fall 2012
Brüsseler Frauenfilmfestival, 2012
Some Prefer Cake LGBT Festival, Bologna, 2012
Black International Cinema, Berlin, 2012
Boston LGBT Film Festival, 2012
International Queer Film Festival, Hamburg, 2012
Cheries Cheris FF LGBT, Paris, 2012
Africa in the Picture FF, Amsterdam, 2012
London Feminist Film Festival, 2012
Image+Nation 25 Festival, Montreal, 2012
Bimovie 18 Frauenfilmfest, Munchen, 2012
Munster-Queerstreifen (Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Munster), 2012
Pink Life Juir Festival, Ankara, 2013
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2013
Immaginaria Film Festival, Milano, 2013
Leeds Queer Festival, 2013
Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, 2013
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, NYC, 2013
2013 International Black Women's Film Festival, San Francisco, 2013
Best Documentary Award, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series
Audience Award for Best Documentary, Barcelona G&L Film Festival
New York Premiere, The Brecht Forum, 2012
Los Angeles Premiere, Outfest, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2012
Torino GLBT Film Festival, 2012
West Coast Premiere, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, 2012
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, 2012
Festival de Films de Femmes de Bruxelles Elles Tournent, 2012
Berlin & Beyond Showcase, San Francisco, 2012
Barcelona International G&L Film Festival, 2012
Out on Film, 2012
Subversive Film Festival, Croatia, 2012
Queer Film Festival, Lisboa, 2012
Florence Queer Film Festival, 2012
PERLEN Queer Film Festival, Hannover Kustlerhaus , 2012
Free Zone Human Rights, Belgrade, 2012
Siren Nation Arts Film Festival, Portland, 2012
Queering Roma, 2012
Art for Action- Lesbian Activist Festival, Serbia, 2012
Trenton International Film Festival, 2012
Rainbow Reels Queer Festival, Ontario, 2013
Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festiva, Los Angeles, 2013
Identities, Vienna, 2013
Redmond Film Screening, Amsterdam, 2013
Palm Springs LGBT Film Festival, 2013
Zefestival, France, 2013
Uruguay International Film Festival on Sexual and Gender Diversity, 2013
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Throughout the 70s and 80s, Audre Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color, feminist and LGBT social justice movements in the United States and abroad. AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992 explores a little-known chapter of the writer’s prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.

Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while challenging white German women to acknowledge their white privilege. As Lorde wrote in her book Our Dead Behind Us: Poems, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” 

AUDRE LORDE - THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 TO 1992, winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Barcelona G&L Film Festival, contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz’s personal archive, showing Lorde on and off stage. Special features include footage of Audre Lorde in Berlin, Audre reading her poems, Audre on her work, deleted scenes, trailer, interview with filmmaker Dagmar Schultz and English, Spanish, German and French subtitles.

With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany. This documentary was released in 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing.

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