Best OFF FLINTA

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With our “Best OFF FLINTA” series, we want to create a space at OFF Broadway where FLINTA directors receive special attention. Over the course of three months, we’ll focus on a specific theme, screening a selected film for you on the second Monday of every month. 

We’re a team of eight staff members at OFF Broadway. Since in 2025 only about 20% of the films shown here at OFF were directed by FLINTA individuals, we believe there’s a need for a program that specifically focuses on these perspectives, puts marginalized people at the center, and counteracts gender imbalance in the film program.

We have deliberately chosen the acronym FLINTA—that is, women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender people— as our goal is not only to screen films by cisgender women but also to include diverse, including queer, perspectives in our program that are otherwise often overlooked.

Block II: Best OFF Breaking Rules

In their search for freedom, self-determination, happiness, expression, meaning, or conscious meaninglessness, FLINTA and queer people must constantly fight against rules, conventions, prohibitions, and gender roles. They are not supposed to be loud, colorful, cheeky, political, complex, or courageous. Breaking these rules can take many different forms. In the three films in this block, Věra Chytilová, Elene Naveriani, and Agniia Galdanova show how different people break a wide variety of rules in their own ways, offering a glimpse into worlds where the protagonists forge their own paths with self-determination.

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