FEM FEST 2025: film: Bullets for Breakfast

<<<<Two films this evening! >>>>

First Cura Sana, then a talk with the maker, then Bullets for Breakfast.

Bullets for Breakfast
by Holly Fisher
USA, 1992, 77 min., 16MM, English, no subtitles

Combining stunning optical printing with a dense weaving of poetry, storytelling, and visual narrative, Fisher’s film explores the violent underside of women’s experiences.
Fisher juxtaposes a pulp-western writer with a feminist poet, as well as women working at a herring smokehouse with those depicted in paintings by European Masters. She reorders stories and images like musical motifs. A captivating hybrid of experimental and documentary technique, Bullets for Breakfast blurs the lines between myth and reality, fact and fiction.

Holly Fisher has been active since the mid-sixties as an independent filmmaker, printmaker, teacher, and film editor.
Her experimental short works and long-form essay films –– explorations in time,memory, trauma, and perception –– have been screened in museums and film festivals worldwide including the Whitney Museum Biennials; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Film Forum, Japan; and two world premieres in The Forum of the Berlinale, Germany. Bullets for Breakfast received “Best Experimental Film Award” at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1992.

A glorious color and optical sound experience on 16 mm, made in 1992, 77′ 00
Trailer Bullets for Breakfast

Cura Sana
by Lucia G. Romero
Spain, 2024, 18 min, Spanish, English subtitles

Spain during the Noche de San Juan festival. Two sisters, 14-year-old Jessica and 8-year-old Alma, are once again on their way to pick up food stamps from the Caritas charity. The violence they have both experienced over the years at the hands of their father has turned Jessica into an angry, self-destructive teenager with a thick protective skin. She even subjects her little sister to her harsh, hostile behaviour. But during the course of their journey together, Jessica realises that she does not want to turn out like her father. She must learn to treat Alma with love instead of violence.

We will have a short Q&A with the film maker right after we have seen Cura Sana!
Lucia G. Romero was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1999. She secured a full scholarship to the city’s ESCAC film school from which she graduated with a master’s degree in directing. Her graduation film Cura Sana tells an autobiographical story that is linked to her Cuban roots and rich in political consciousness.
Trailer Cura Sana

**Cineville valid at the door and on the day itself! **

FULL FEM FEST PROGRAMME – tickets and info
5th March
15:00 – 16:30 Self-defence workshop with Rosa Opstelten from Queer Gym – FREE
20:30 – 22:30 Feminist Film Night – Bullets for Breakfast Tickets 10,-

7th March
18:00 – 20:00 Pre-Women’s March Gathering: Making Banners & Props – FREE
20:30 – 23:30 Reflect, Regenerate: Music and dialogue event with social focus: Gender-Based Violence. Artist-in-focus: Jimena Maldonado (NL/MX) Tickets 5,-

8th March
12:30 – 17:00 Sunflowers Vinyl DJ Workshop with Operator – Sign up! Tickets 10,-
22:00 – 02:00 Step Up! and Celebrate: Fem Fest Party featuring Aja Ireland and more! Tickets 12,-