Womb+

Mariana Petřáková / Czech Republic / 2025 / World Premiere / 10 min.

synopsis

Why don’t we tell stories about pain? Are they too intimate, chaotic, “feminine”? Womb+ is a collective testimony of living with endometriosis and chronic pain that resists reproduction rhetoric and patriarchal concepts of the body.

This film was made during the 2025 My Street Films workshop under the guidance of Tereza Reichová.

biography

Mariana Petrakova (1998) studied journalism at Charles University, where she is currently completing her studies in Gender Studies. She works as an editor and contributor to Nový Prostor magazine and is involved in various feminist initiatives. She currently lives in Vienna.