Barbara Forever

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“Barbara Forever” is a documentary about queer cinema pioneer Barbara Hammer (1939–2019), who started making films at 27 and came out as a lesbian in her early thirties. Brydie O’Connor’s feature debut draws on the sheer abundance of film material from Hammer’s life to portray a trailblazer of lesbian-queer self-representation “in a world where we are invisible”, a seductive lover and an experimental, risk-taking filmmaker. Along her films such as Dyketactics, Audience and Nitrate Kisses, first-time-seen archival material, her narrative voice and her life partner Florrie Burke, mortality itself is queered. The film won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary Film at the Berlinale 2026.

Written by a model, sources: lichtblick-kino.org, fsk-kino.peripherfilm.de, indiekino.de

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