Cristina Perincioli

Cristina Perincioli is a Swiss-German lesbian filmmaker and activist known for The Power of Men Is the Patience of Women (Die Macht der Männer ist die Geduld der Frauen, 1978), one of the earliest films to directly address domestic violence from a feminist perspective, and for Anna and Agnes (1975), an early film depicting lesbian love. She was a pioneering figure in queer feminist filmmaking in Germany and her work predates the mainstream visibility of both lesbian cinema and domestic violence narratives by decades.