Film Screening of "Anima - My Father's Dresses" and conversation with filmmaker Uli Decker.

The Smith College Department of German & Italian is pleased to present a film screening of Anima – My Father’s Dresses (2022, animated feature documentary, German original with English subtitles) with filmmaker Uli Decker on Monday, September 23, Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. The film screening starts at 6:15p.m., followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

About the film: ANIMA – My Father’s Dresses is a film about family secrets, gender trouble, and a childhood in the Bavarian provinces. Little Uli wants to become a pirate or the pope, but in no way does she want to meet the social expectations of her Bavarian village. After her father’s death, her mother hands her his “secret” box as an inheritance. The content changes her view of her father, herself, and the family in which she grew up. ANIMA is anarchic, funny and contemplative, a creative exploration of identity and love told through a roller coaster ride of animated and documentary imagery.

About the filmmaker: Uli Decker was born in the mountains of South Bavaria in Germany. She studied film, theater, Spanish & Portuguese literature in several countries, traveled extensively, and spent a year in a farming community in the Amazon Forest. Decker worked in journalism, theater, and TV. In 2012, she founded ulises films and started creating her own films. Decker received an MA in Creative Documentary from Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and trained as a Camera Woman at Film Arche (Berlin).

Co-sponsored by Department of Film & Media Studies and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Smith College and the Amherst College Department of German.