Cristina Perincioli

Cristina Perincioli, born in Bern, Switzerland in 1946, is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor. She has lived in Berlin since 1968. She began her studies at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in 1968. Her feature films "For Women – Chapter I" (a strike of female sales clerks), "Anna & Edith" (a lesbian relationship in the workplace) and "The Power of Men is the Patience of Women" (the battered women’s shelter movement) got international attention. She co-founded the Lesbian Movement in 1972, the first "Women's Center" in 1973, and in 1977 the "Rape Crisis Center”, the first rape emergency call.