Catharina Göldner

It’s summer in Berlin and Miriam is waiting for the woman she loves to return. The wait is unbearable. Then an astrologer tells her that the two of them don’t fit together and she should instead be looking for some one born on 19th January 1985. Miriam decides to wait no longer and sets out on a road trip adventure to find the one person who she is meant to be with.

Without sex, none of us would be here. So why is it so difficult to talk about sex? And what do people with disabilities have to say about it? Based on a two-year collaboration between the director and seven artists from Thikwa Werkstatt, the film “Sexability” attempts to answer these questions, only to raise even more.

Salomea Genin was born in Berlin in 1932 to Polish-Russian Jewish parents. In 1939, the family fled and settled in Melbourne, Australia. As a teenager, Salomea found a home in Australia's Communist Youth League and, in 1951, attended the Third World Festival of Youth and Students in East Berlin as a member of the Australian delegation. She was so enthusiastic about the visit that from then on she wanted to live in the GDR. So Salomea returned to Berlin in 1954 to help build a better, anti-fascist Germany, but the GDR did not want her. The path to living and working in the workers' and farmers' state only became possible in 1963 and remained rocky...