Director: Barbara Wallbraun
Year: 2019
Duration: 117 minutes
Category: Documentary Feature
Language: German with English subtitles

Uferfrauen accompanies six protagonists who lived in large and small towns in the north and south of the former socialist republic and have a lot to tell: Christiane from Berlin, Carola from Dresden, Pat from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as Elke and long-term couple Sabine and Gisela from Saxony-Anhalt. The women let the audience participate in their everyday life at that time, in their struggle for self-determination, first love, unconventional family planning and conflicts with the SED and the law. In this way, it is explored how lesbian life still has an effect today under the conditions of the socialist regime and its society. The portrayed women remained true to themselves, but were directed against the state dogmas and were therefore subjected to repression.