Film: Hysterical bands

With 'Bandes d’Hystériques' Brussels director Kita Bauchet dives into the forgotten history of feminist emancipation movements in the 1970s in Belgium. Unseen archive footage is alternated with touching testimonies and literary manifestos in a vibrant documentary collage. While images of street protests, playful actions and historical moments evoke an era of radical change, the film breathes the spirit of a generation that refused to be silenced. 'Bandes d’Hystériques' is more than a chronicle, it is an invitation to rediscover the forgotten stories of these ‘female pirates’ and to find a way forward with the same creativity, freedom and intransigence as back then. Screening (at 8:30 PM) preceded by an author conversation with Uschi Cop, driving force behind the intersectional feminist writers collective Hyster-x, about the power of literature to denounce social injustice. Within the framework of Human Rights Day.