Stina Werenfels, director of “Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents” #fce2016

April 22, 2016

Stina Werenfels, director of "Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents" #fce2016 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stina Werenfels, director of Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, from the 2016 Lecce European Film Festival.

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Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Stina Werenfels in Lecce at the European Film Festival – Festival del Cinema Europeo to present her new film Dora or the sexual neuroses of our parents. The film’s intent is to change people’s attitude and beliefs surrounding metal disabilities and idealized motherhood. Everything is up for a discussion in the film: what defines a good mother from a bad one, fertility and genetic tests, idealized motherhood.

It took Stina almost 7 years to make the film and the reason behind all these production difficulties lays mostly in the themes and topics Werenfels treats.

DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS: Dora is 18 and bursting with curiosity. Her mother Kristin has recently taken Dora off her sedating medication. The learning disabled young woman throws herself into all that life has to offer – this includes an infatuation with a man. To Kristin’s horror the two have a spontaneous sexual encounter that soon develops into a liaison: the morally dubious man is clearly drawn to Dora’s uninhibited sexuality. While Kristin tries in vain for another child, Dora finds herself pregnant…

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Chiara Nicoletti Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Stina Werenfels