By Monica Delgado

I grouped these two films together, one from the Encounters section and the other from the official competition of the 72nd edition of the Berlinale, since they address the topic of sexuality from different perspectives and modalities (one is a documentary, the other is fiction), and both they question or problematize -consciously or not- the director’s gaze on this object of study. In Mutzenbacher (2022) by the Austrian documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann…