November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women: a day to remember, resist and demand justice. In Latin America, this struggle found its voice in the Ni Una Menos movement, which became known worldwide on June 3, 2015. Its name was inspired by the Mexican poet Susana Chávez and her phrase “ni una muerte más” (“not one more death”), which activist Vanina Escales adapted for the first public demonstration in Argentina.
At Vierte Welle Film Festival, we want to join this day by acknowledging the many ways in which violence against women shows up. That is why, during these dates, we put together a program of films and workshops that invites us to reflect on the issue, identify patterns and fight them.
It is not always a personal case, but every one of us knows someone it has happened to. VWFF joins the struggle.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Curated by Anahi Mou (@mouanahi)
Constanza becomes pregnant and shortly afterward loses her job.
Trapped at home, she does the one thing they can’t take from her, watching and filming.
As part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the film La Mutante will be screened. An intimate documentary that follows the metamorphosis of a woman whose pregnancy pushes her out of the workforce.
Violence against women sometimes arrives as a contract that isn’t renewed, a project they are no longer called in for or a silent suspicion “she won’t be as committed anymore.” From feminist economics to studies on the “maternal wall,” it has been documented how motherhood or even the mere possibility of it, functions as grounds for exclusion.
Employers avoid hiring women or pressure them until they are forced to resign. It is a form of economic violence, often legitimized by custom and rarely named as such.
La Mutante approaches this theme from lived experience. Its director turns confinement into method and the changing body into an archive. Rather than accepting isolation as destiny, she makes the camera an act of resistance and her own experience a question. Which structures measure women’s worth by their productive availability? What other ways of living, working and caring could be imagined for the future?
These barriers know no borders, even if they change form. We are here to say: Let no one be left behind, let no woman be seen as “less.”
PROGRAM
Film: Mutant
November 24th, 2026 | 20:00
Lichtblick Kino, Berlin
Workshop: Desarchivadxs
November 26th, 2026 | 18:00
Xochicuicatl e.V, Berlin
Ni una menos is a Side Event of Vierte Welle Film Festival. This event is organized by Sorora e.V. (@sorora_ev) in collaboration with Karne Kunst (@karnekunst) and Lichtblick Kino (@kinolichtblickberlin) and Xochicuicatl e.V. (@xochicuicatl.e.v). Funded by Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin – Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur, Senatsverwaltung für Arbeit, Soziales, Gleichstellung, Integration, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung, and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
