{"id":657,"date":"2025-08-15T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/?page_id=657"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:32:28","slug":"the-watermelon-woman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/en\/programm\/the-watermelon-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watermelon Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"657\" class=\"elementor elementor-657\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6640403 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6640403\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0290a63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0290a63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-1024x636.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-897\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-1024x636.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-1536x955.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-2048x1273.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thewatermelonwoman_04-1320x820.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac89648 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ac89648\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95bbbb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"95bbbb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">USA,<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> 1996, 85 min,<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Cheryl Dunye, English<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">A landmark of Black Queer Cinema, <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Watermelon Woma<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">n follows Cheryl, a young black lesbian, as she investigates a forgotten actress from 1930s Hollywood. Her search exposes how black queer women have been erased from film history. Cheryl\u2019s journey becomes a film within a film \u2013 a powerful, self-reflexive act of reclamation. Dunye blurs fact and fiction to challenge archival silences, asking: what if history must be imagined? This is a radical act of resistance, asserting black lesbian presence in a canon that has long refused to see it.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Ein Meilenstein des Black Queer Cinema: <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Watermelon Woman<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"> begleitet Cheryl, eine junge schwarze Lesbe, bei ihrer Suche nach einer vergessenen Schauspielerin aus dem Hollywood der 1930er Jahre. Ihre Recherchen enth\u00fcllen das systematische Ausl\u00f6schen schwarzer queerer Frauen aus der Filmgeschichte. Cheryl erschafft einen Film im Film \u2013 ein selbstreflexiver Akt der R\u00fcckeroberung. Dunye verwischt die Grenzen zwischen Fakt und Fiktion und fragt: Muss Geschichte manchmal imaginiert werden? 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