lead free 95

For the film lead free 95, the directing duo Emma Hütt & Tina Muffler relocate the world-famous and self-proclaimed oldest lesbian bar in Germany, La Gata, by means of montage from Frankfurt am Main to the concrete desert of a motor court. The Autohof, as a microcosm of car parks, gas stations, motels, car washes, drive-ins and toilets classically dominated by men, is subverted in BLEIFREI-95 by the lesbian-queer community. As a non-place/place of passage, it becomes the starting point for an imagined queer space. In this fictional utopia in the midst of dreary reality, between the motorway and provincial villages, the friends Zuza, Toni and Lolly spent their youth. Somewhere in the homophobic nowhere, the three protagonists have had their first experiences and have become family to each other as friends.
Toni successfully establishes and practices lesbian cruising, a cultural practice for anyonymised sex previously reserved for gay men.
The three girlfriends demonstrate to each other in a late adolescent frenzy through the places of the Autohof that their friendship is not only the transition to the final station of bourgeois nuclear family happiness.
A film about the difficulty of having relationships that include fear of loss, belligerence, jealousy, falling in love and sexual attraction. And about the attempt to overcome the compulsion to always be the flawless alternative. It’s about women* who are always too: too pretty, too loud, too energetic, too sensitive, too ugly, too arrogant, too self-confident, too insecure, too offensive.