Cristina Perincioli was born in Bern , Switzerland , as third child of the renowned sculptor Marcel Perincioli and his wife Hélène Perincioli-Jörns , a Handweaving Artist . She is the granddaughter of the bernese Sculptor Etienne Perincioli . In 1968 , Cristina Perincioli moved to Berlin to study at the Deutsche Film - und Fernsehakademie Berlin ( dffb – German Film and Television Academy ) . This motivated her to documentary films ( '' Nixon in Berlin '' , '' Occupation of a Student Residence '' , '' Kreuzberg is Ours '' , '' Population Explosion '' ) and feature films . Her docufiction about a women 's strike , '' For Women : Chapter 1 '' , from 1971 is one of the first contributions to Women 's cinema in West Germany ; the film won the " Award of the Film Journalists " at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1972 . Harun Farocki writes : " You can see how much fun liberating knowledge can be . " In 1969 she was active in the anarchist journal agit 883 , co-founder of both the Lesbian movement in 1972 and 1973 of the first " Women 's Center " , and 1977 of the " Rape Crisis Center ” , all in ( West - ) Berlin . In 1975 she wrote with her partner Cäcilia Rentmeister the screenplay for the first feature film about a lesbian relationship produced for German television ( " Anna and Edith " , ZDF/Second German TV Channel )
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Cristina Perincioli