CALL FOR ENTRIES: SUBMIT NOW FOR TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES 2026
We are accepting animated films and/or Virtual/Mixed-Reality works for our anniversary edition. Submission via >> FILMFREEWAY is open until October 6, 2025. Read more
TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES
MOVING LINES – Artist Talk with Heta Jäälinoja – May 20, 2025
Finnish animation artist Heta Jäälinoja will take us on a personal journey through her creative work in an artist talk at Vienna's MuseumsQuartier.Read more
Spaces of Resonance: Recent Animated Films by Austrian Artists
We introduce the 6th edition of our curated program of Austrian animation in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.Read more
Festival Trailer TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES 2025
The festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES 2025 is out! It was created by Noémie Marsily. The sound comes from Atonal Circuits.Read more
Call For Entries: Submit now for TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES 2025
Animated films and/or animated VR works can be submitted for TRICKY WOMEN TRICKY REALITIES 2025 from now until October 6, 2024.Read more
TAKE, BREAK, REMAKE: Recent Animated Films by Austrian Artists
We happily introduce the 5th edition of our curated program of Austrian animation in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.
On Travelling, Matters of the Heart and Peripheries
This year we are happy to introduce the fourth edition of the Tricky Women/Tricky Realities film program in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.Read more
TRAILER Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021
"But from our great tears has emerged a new way. So, come celebrate with us our 20th birthday!" - Our new festival trailer was created by Renee Zhan ...Read more
16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
The online film series for "Klappe auf!" ran from November 26th to December 7th. We are looking forward to a continuation next year. Every year, "Klappe auf!" organizes a campaign to raise awareness of violence against women* and girls*. Read more
Preview: Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2021 - Online Edition
Birthdays cannot be postponed, not even due to a global pandemic. From March 10 to 14 we celebrate twenty years of passionate commitment to the visibility of female* filmmakers ONLINE! With glitter and glory and love and passion! Stay tuned.
The program will be online in Mid-February.Read more
BRIGHT SPOTS & PUSHING BOUNDARIES
Recent animations by Austrian women artists
solar mechanix 1.1, Martina Tritthart, AT 2018
With this program TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES we once again put the experimental animated film work of Austrian women artists at the center of attention. The films tour the world in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs.Read more
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES @ Int. Comic Salon Erlangen 2020
On July 10th the International Comic Salon Erlangen starts in a digital edition. On board is also a program curated by Tricky Women/Tricky Realities.Read more
TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020
The new festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020 was created by Rachel Gutgarts. Rachel won the 3-month-scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence program at Tricky Women 2018 for her film "A Love Letter To The One I Made Up". The trailer was made during her residency in Vienna in the spring of 2019.
Rachel Gutgarts about the trailer: A glimpse out of an imaginary nature TV show - A windy...Read more
Stay Tricky!
TW/TR goes Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund, 9. - 14.4.2019
The Man Woman Case, Anaïs Caura, FR 2017
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES films travel to the International Women's Filmfestival (Frauenfilmfestival) in Dortmund! In line with the festival focus 3 short films and the crime thriller The Man Woman Case - which will also open the festival - will be screened.Read more
Winners
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019
III, Marta Pajek, PL 2018
The juries of the International and the Up & Coming competition picked this year's winners!Read more
Meet the filmmakers
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2019
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019, Ulla Klopf
We asked our international guests: What makes you a Tricky Woman?Read more
Chinese Ink Painting & Animation Workshop
With Jin Yu and Susi Jirkuff
Photo: Jin Yu
Register now and learn the fascinating technique!Read more
The future is female: Design Thinking
Workshop with Hilda Tellioglu and Marlene Wagner
Photo: aspern.mobil LAB
Register now and conceptualise new approaches!Read more
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019
March 13 - 17 at METRO Kinokulturhaus
TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019 Trailer von Marta Pajek
Stay tricky! What do the current social, political and digital changes mean and how can we react to them? TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES takes a closer look with independent animated films by women*, workshops, lectures and discussions.Read more
TRICKY WOMEN GOES WELS II
Sous tes doigts | Under your Fingers, Marie-Christine Courtès, FR 2014
FIFTITU%, Programmkino Wels and TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES invite you to a second film screening in Wels on February 14, 19:00.Read more
TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019
Animation artist Marta Pajek, well known for her award winning surreal, multi-layered films, created the festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2019. Marta won the 3-month scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the artist-in-residence program at Tricky Women 2017 for her film "Impossible Figures and Other Stories II". The trailer was made during her stay in Vienna last fall. The sound design is by Michał Jankowski.
Marta Pajek about the trailer: “For the TRICKY...Read more
Long Night Of Short Films In Wels
Rabbitland, Ana Nedeljković & Nikola Majdak Jr., RS 2013
Filmscreening: Cinemarkt Special - Klappe auf!
Untamed, Juliette Viger, DK 2015
Within the frame of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence women's political organizations and Tricky Women invite you to a film screening on 29 November 2018.Read more
Tricky Women @ China Independent Animation Film Forum
My Milk Cup Cow, Yantong Zhu, JP 2014
Tricky Women audience favourites as well as international jury awarded animations of the last festival editions will be screened at the China Independent Animation Film Forum (15.-18.11.2018) in Beijing.Read more
Filmscreening and Artist Talk with animator Marta Pajek
Impossible Figures and Other Stories II, Marta Pajek, PL 2016
Tricky Women Artist-in-Residence Marta Pajek will personally present her film triptych Impossible Figures and Other Stories in Vienna on 5.11.2018.Read more
Tricky Women@IndieAnifest Seoul, 13.-18.9.2018
Abuelas, Afarin Eghbal
Tricky Women curated two programs for the Indie-AniFest - "Secret Desire - Issues of Gender and Sexuality" and "Awakening und Changing", which will be presented by Festival Directress Waltraud Grausgruber; moreover Waltraud will be a member of the jury as well.Read more
Workshop: Empowerment with Animation
Moїa Jobin-Paré (Tricky Women 2018 Trailer) | Photo: Christian Duval
Register now and learn the fascinating technique of Canadian based artist Moїa Jobin-Paré!Read more
TRAILER TRICKY WOMEN 2018
Festival Trailer Tricky Women 2018 (Regie: Moïa Jobin-Paré // Q21/MQ Artist in Residence 2017).
Captured in Vienna! Canadian filmmaker and artist Moïa Jobin-Paré created the festival trailer for Tricky Women 2018!Read more
TURBULENT TIMES, FAMILIAR PLACES
Princess Disaster Movie, Xenia Ostrovskaya (AT 2014)
With this program Tricky Women assembles contemporary positions of Austrian female animation filmmakers which tour the world with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs.Read more
KEPT IN THE PICTURE – ANIMATION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Part 4: Biographies
Filmstill aus Rocks in my Pockets (Signe Baumane, US 2014)
The last film program of the series "Kept in the Picture - Animation and the Unconscious" deals with biographies. Read more
KEPT IN THE PICTURE – ANIMATION AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Part 3: Body & Sexuality
Filmstill from Snępowina / Sleepincord (Marta Pajek, PL 2011)
The third and forelast evening of the film series is dedicated to the complex of body and sexuality.Read more
Kept in the Picture – Animation and the Unconscious
Part 2: Self and External Perception
Filmstill Hezurbeltzak / A Common Grave (Izibene Oñederra, ES 2007)
Within the framework of the Vienna Art Week Tricky Women and the Sigmund Freud Museum are iniviting to the second film screening of the series "Kept in the Picture - Animation and the Unconscious".Read more
Kept in the Picture – Animation and the Unconscious
Part 1: The Classics
Filmstill Repete (Michaela Pavlátová, CZ 1995)
Tricky Women and the Sigmund Freud Museum are inviting to a film series in which animation calls the tune. The ways in which animation takes the ineffable in its views should be the core of four film screenings. The first evening is dedicated to four classics of animation.Read more
Tricky Realities
Animationsfilmsammlung gegen Gewalt und Sexismus
In Kooperation mit der MA 57 - Frauenservice Wien und dem Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animation Festival ist eine Animationsfilm-Compilation entstanden, die sich mit den Themen Alltagssexismus, veraltete Rollenbilder und Gewalt gegen Frauen auseinandersetzt...Read more
Exhibition revisited: Marta Pajek at Bildraum 07
Vom 10. bis 24. März konnten die Ausstellungsbesucher:innen in die surreale Parallelwelt der polnischen Ausnahmekünstlerin Marta Pajek eintauchen.
Awarded Films Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2022
DIVARE CHAHAROM / THE FOURTH WALL, Mahboobeh Kalaee, IR 2021
Awarded Films Tricky Women/Tricky Realities 2023
Awarded Films Tricky Women Tricky Realities 2025
