Freja Film

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Freja Film was a radical screening forum held at the Stockholm Women's House (Kvinnohuset) during the 1980s. [See Moira Sullivan.]

The original core group was composed of Moira Sullivan, Yvonne Eriksson, and Anna Kindgren. Guests to the women's house included filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Regular screenings of films made by women were held with discussions afterwards. The icon on the poster head for the monthly screenings was a picture of Dorothy Arzner, the only woman working in Hollywood as a director during the 1930s. Freja Film was the contact organization of women's film established during a special conference of the UN in the 1980s.

The Stockholm house opened in 1980 on Snickarbacken 10 and closed in 2003. Active groups at Kvinnohuset included Kvinnobulletinen (published by Group 8 (Sweden), self defense groups, and Lesbisk Front. Facilities for battered women were located in undisclosed shelters to keep perpetrators from harassing or harming the women. During the 1990s the house moved to a separate location in Stockholm on Blekingegatan, the street Greta Garbo was born on. The battered women's shelter groups left because of an internal conflict over whether or not the house would be open to MTF transgenders.

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