This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Luisa is an architect, but in her spare time also teaches art classes to children and teenagers. One day she finds 17-year-old...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Three young musicians from an Iranian province want to enter a competition in Tehran. It could be just the chance the band...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At Ndewa’s suggestion, four childhood friends meet up after the funeral of their former orphanage director. At 39, Ndewa is the oldest...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At the age of 48, Canela comes out as a trans woman. She overcomes the challenges of everyday life and consults friends...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism. In this entertaining conversation, she shares her stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. Ulysses felt...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Finding Sally is the awe-inspiring culmination of the director’s quest to piece together fragments of a diasporan trail. Dawit grew up in...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
After the death of her husband, 70-year-old Claudina has to start over and she moves in with her daughter and grandson. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
From 1962 to 1991, one country alone provided the winner of the women’s world chess championship every single year: Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili...
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A homosexual teenager from Syria, an artist with Afghan roots and an Iranian-born beer brewer »in a mixture of socially relevant narrative...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Crying was a powerful reason for making a political film.«
Milan as quoted by Ana in Landscapes of Resistance
Crickets chirping, a playful kitten,...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A documentary film accompanying a film-maker couple biking through France one summer, retracing the steps of Polish author Andrzej Bobkowski who wrote...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Baghdad is a 17-year-old skater who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»What was our sin?«
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno in Nothing but the Sun
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno is a member of the Ayoreo people. Like many...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Iris is 17 years old. Expelled from school, she spends her days in the streets of the »Las Mil« social housing project....
Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as being ›beyond integration‹, Kevin, David and Dominik are sent away to live and work on farms in Romania. It's hoped that the monotony of everyday life in the country...
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Quo Vadis, Aida? runs only on June 16 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets online for...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Souad, a young student from the city of Mansoura in the northern Nile Delta between Alexandria and Cairo, is looking for ways...
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film are huge, colourful plastic tarpaulins which are used by exterminators to control termites. Buildings are wrapped up and unwrapped and presented in the film like gigantic, temporary works of...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Man Who Sold His Skin runs only on June 20 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»We never talked, we’re not going to start now.«
Aïcha in Their Algeria
An old video recording: Zinedine films his daughter Lina and mother...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
This is an autobiographical film told from the perspective of a mother who follows the gender transitioning process of her son. In...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»You ain’t gonna be able to see no shit like this in L.A. man.«
Lashay T. Warren in Victoria
California City, a phantom-like planned...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»For whom are we doing this?«
The activist in WTC A Love Story
In the 1970s, more than 10,000 people in the north part...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski's film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker...
During the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 we will broadcast encounters with filmmakers from the festival studio every day at 7.30 p.m. You can stream the talks live via our Vimeo channel and access them later. You can meet us here every day – even without a ticket or accreditation. After...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Luisa is an architect, but in her spare time also teaches art classes to children and teenagers. One day she finds 17-year-old...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Three young musicians from an Iranian province want to enter a competition in Tehran. It could be just the chance the band...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At Ndewa’s suggestion, four childhood friends meet up after the funeral of their former orphanage director. At 39, Ndewa is the oldest...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At the age of 48, Canela comes out as a trans woman. She overcomes the challenges of everyday life and consults friends...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism. In this entertaining conversation, she shares her stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. Ulysses felt...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Finding Sally is the awe-inspiring culmination of the director’s quest to piece together fragments of a diasporan trail. Dawit grew up in...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
After the death of her husband, 70-year-old Claudina has to start over and she moves in with her daughter and grandson. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
From 1962 to 1991, one country alone provided the winner of the women’s world chess championship every single year: Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili...
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A homosexual teenager from Syria, an artist with Afghan roots and an Iranian-born beer brewer »in a mixture of socially relevant narrative...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Crying was a powerful reason for making a political film.«
Milan as quoted by Ana in Landscapes of Resistance
Crickets chirping, a playful kitten,...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A documentary film accompanying a film-maker couple biking through France one summer, retracing the steps of Polish author Andrzej Bobkowski who wrote...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Baghdad is a 17-year-old skater who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»What was our sin?«
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno in Nothing but the Sun
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno is a member of the Ayoreo people. Like many...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Iris is 17 years old. Expelled from school, she spends her days in the streets of the »Las Mil« social housing project....
Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as being ›beyond integration‹, Kevin, David and Dominik are sent away to live and work on farms in Romania. It's hoped that the monotony of everyday life in the country...
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Quo Vadis, Aida? runs only on June 16 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets online for...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Souad, a young student from the city of Mansoura in the northern Nile Delta between Alexandria and Cairo, is looking for ways...
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film are huge, colourful plastic tarpaulins which are used by exterminators to control termites. Buildings are wrapped up and unwrapped and presented in the film like gigantic, temporary works of...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Man Who Sold His Skin runs only on June 20 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»We never talked, we’re not going to start now.«
Aïcha in Their Algeria
An old video recording: Zinedine films his daughter Lina and mother...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
This is an autobiographical film told from the perspective of a mother who follows the gender transitioning process of her son. In...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»You ain’t gonna be able to see no shit like this in L.A. man.«
Lashay T. Warren in Victoria
California City, a phantom-like planned...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»For whom are we doing this?«
The activist in WTC A Love Story
In the 1970s, more than 10,000 people in the north part...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski's film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker...
During the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 we will broadcast encounters with filmmakers from the festival studio every day at 7.30 p.m. You can stream the talks live via our Vimeo channel and access them later. You can meet us here every day – even without a ticket or accreditation. After...
Dagie Brundert is processing Super 8 material in her kitchen.
»I have been making Super 8 films for decades and now I’m also a recognised organic alchemist. Organic film processing using eco-friendly ingredients is something I’m passionate about. First, it prevents further polluting of our planet. And it also helps...
PLEASE NOTE: Petite Maman runs only on June 18 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact form or the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Luisa is an architect, but in her spare time also teaches art classes to children and teenagers. One day she finds 17-year-old...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Three young musicians from an Iranian province want to enter a competition in Tehran. It could be just the chance the band...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At Ndewa’s suggestion, four childhood friends meet up after the funeral of their former orphanage director. At 39, Ndewa is the oldest...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At the age of 48, Canela comes out as a trans woman. She overcomes the challenges of everyday life and consults friends...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism. In this entertaining conversation, she shares her stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. Ulysses felt...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Finding Sally is the awe-inspiring culmination of the director’s quest to piece together fragments of a diasporan trail. Dawit grew up in...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
After the death of her husband, 70-year-old Claudina has to start over and she moves in with her daughter and grandson. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
From 1962 to 1991, one country alone provided the winner of the women’s world chess championship every single year: Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili...
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A homosexual teenager from Syria, an artist with Afghan roots and an Iranian-born beer brewer »in a mixture of socially relevant narrative...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Crying was a powerful reason for making a political film.«
Milan as quoted by Ana in Landscapes of Resistance
Crickets chirping, a playful kitten,...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A documentary film accompanying a film-maker couple biking through France one summer, retracing the steps of Polish author Andrzej Bobkowski who wrote...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Baghdad is a 17-year-old skater who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»What was our sin?«
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno in Nothing but the Sun
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno is a member of the Ayoreo people. Like many...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Iris is 17 years old. Expelled from school, she spends her days in the streets of the »Las Mil« social housing project....
Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as being ›beyond integration‹, Kevin, David and Dominik are sent away to live and work on farms in Romania. It's hoped that the monotony of everyday life in the country...
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Quo Vadis, Aida? runs only on June 16 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets online for...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Souad, a young student from the city of Mansoura in the northern Nile Delta between Alexandria and Cairo, is looking for ways...
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film are huge, colourful plastic tarpaulins which are used by exterminators to control termites. Buildings are wrapped up and unwrapped and presented in the film like gigantic, temporary works of...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Man Who Sold His Skin runs only on June 20 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»We never talked, we’re not going to start now.«
Aïcha in Their Algeria
An old video recording: Zinedine films his daughter Lina and mother...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
This is an autobiographical film told from the perspective of a mother who follows the gender transitioning process of her son. In...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»You ain’t gonna be able to see no shit like this in L.A. man.«
Lashay T. Warren in Victoria
California City, a phantom-like planned...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»For whom are we doing this?«
The activist in WTC A Love Story
In the 1970s, more than 10,000 people in the north part...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski's film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
During the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 we will broadcast encounters with filmmakers from the festival studio every day at 7.30 p.m. You can stream the talks live via our Vimeo channel and access them later. You can meet us here every day – even without a ticket or accreditation. After...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Luisa is an architect, but in her spare time also teaches art classes to children and teenagers. One day she finds 17-year-old...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Three young musicians from an Iranian province want to enter a competition in Tehran. It could be just the chance the band...
PLEASE NOTE: Becoming Animal runs only on June 17 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets for this particular screening online. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At Ndewa’s suggestion, four childhood friends meet up after the funeral of their former orphanage director. At 39, Ndewa is the oldest...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
At the age of 48, Canela comes out as a trans woman. She overcomes the challenges of everyday life and consults friends...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Film / Violence / Memory
Film captures moments in time and preserves them after they have passed. But what exactly can the medium capture, and what is beyond the technical scope of recording, a process that promises to preserve? Traumas are based on experiences that are so painful they are...
Donna Haraway is a biologist, scientific historian and an accomplished storyteller. She has inspired people all over the world with her life-affirming cyborg and trans-species feminism. In this entertaining conversation, she shares her stories and invites us to rediscover octopuses, spiders, dogs and their relationship to each other and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»He was happy on his isle of Ithaca. His sandals knew every path. He could walk with his eyes closed. Ulysses felt...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
The Connection. A Multi-Media Show
The festival steps out into the public arena and brings to life the empty spaces. We are showing international video art from a variety of our festival sections in Dortmund’s shop windows. We want people passing by to stop, and take a moment to just...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Finding Sally is the awe-inspiring culmination of the director’s quest to piece together fragments of a diasporan trail. Dawit grew up in...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Exercises for Being Close to You
Plants, humans and other animals only have a chance of surviving if resources are distributed equally between all beings. Highlighting and practising this equality in artistic attitudes is inspiring film-makers to adopt new approaches in their art, and we have brought together some exciting...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Reviewing nature film
Which formal and aesthetic approaches can be helpful for encounters with otherness in a more-than-human sense? Experimental short films seem especially suited, literally unhinging the visual axes with abstract, yet directly emotional styles. The film-makers make witty use of the whole gamut of artistic tricks they possess...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
Critter aesthetic
Critter is what feminist biologist and theorist Donna Haraway calls all living creatures. In this programme’s experimental short films, the directors allow plants, stones and animals to run riot, make noises and form swarms: they interlink all of this with music and sounds in novel combinations. From this...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
After the death of her husband, 70-year-old Claudina has to start over and she moves in with her daughter and grandson. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Genderation runs only on June 19 at 8.15 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular...
PLEASE NOTE: Gendernauts runs only on June 19 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy tickets online for this particular screening. Reservations can be made by Email to lindner@frauenfilmfestival.eu until 10 a.m. on the day of the screening. You receive a reservation confirmation by sending the contact...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
From 1962 to 1991, one country alone provided the winner of the women’s world chess championship every single year: Georgia. Nona Gaprindashvili...
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
The short-film programme IFFF Revisited: Rhythm in Chaos – the Archive in Motion delves into the festival’s archive. The focus of this film programme is on archive material that can be re-read and interpreted in a new and different way in light of our current reality.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A homosexual teenager from Syria, an artist with Afghan roots and an Iranian-born beer brewer »in a mixture of socially relevant narrative...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Crying was a powerful reason for making a political film.«
Milan as quoted by Ana in Landscapes of Resistance
Crickets chirping, a playful kitten,...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
A documentary film accompanying a film-maker couple biking through France one summer, retracing the steps of Polish author Andrzej Bobkowski who wrote...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Baghdad is a 17-year-old skater who lives in Freguesia do Ó, a working-class district in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. She...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»What was our sin?«
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno in Nothing but the Sun
›Mateo‹ Sobode Chiqueno is a member of the Ayoreo people. Like many...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Iris is 17 years old. Expelled from school, she spends her days in the streets of the »Las Mil« social housing project....
Weed, alcohol, speed, coke: this is how street-wise yet naïve teenager Kevin sums up his life in Germany. Classed as being ›beyond integration‹, Kevin, David and Dominik are sent away to live and work on farms in Romania. It's hoped that the monotony of everyday life in the country...
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
Inside out (side)
Using astuteness coupled with bitterhumour the film-maker and protagonists analyse the balancing of their own needs in relation to the outside world. Coming to terms with traumatic events or social norms, this programme gives us a positive shot in the arm.
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: Quo Vadis, Aida? runs only on June 16 at 8 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can't buy tickets online for...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Souad, a young student from the city of Mansoura in the northern Nile Delta between Alexandria and Cairo, is looking for ways...
Termites offer Lisa Truttmann an unusual way of approaching the city of Los Angeles. The visual framework for this film are huge, colourful plastic tarpaulins which are used by exterminators to control termites. Buildings are wrapped up and unwrapped and presented in the film like gigantic, temporary works of...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Man Who Sold His Skin runs only on June 20 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»We never talked, we’re not going to start now.«
Aïcha in Their Algeria
An old video recording: Zinedine films his daughter Lina and mother...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
This is an autobiographical film told from the perspective of a mother who follows the gender transitioning process of her son. In...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
Janaé and Bella are the two protagonists of the film. They want to investigate the shootings of Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»You ain’t gonna be able to see no shit like this in L.A. man.«
Lashay T. Warren in Victoria
California City, a phantom-like planned...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
»For whom are we doing this?«
The activist in WTC A Love Story
In the 1970s, more than 10,000 people in the north part...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski's film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker...
Since October 2020, Princela Biyaa and Marny Garcia Mommertz have been examining the life of singer-songwriter and peace activist Fasia Jansen as part of the open-ended artistic research residency on Jansen. The research duo set out to identify the extent to which Fasia Jansen’s life can be understood and...
This film has been nominated for the Audience Award endowed with 1,000 euro. Please vote after watching the movie.
You can find an overview of all nominated films here.
PLEASE NOTE: The Man Who Sold His Skin runs only on June 20 at 6 p.m. at Schauburg Dortmund. You can’t buy...
During the IFFF Dortmund+Köln 2021 we will broadcast encounters with filmmakers from the festival studio every day at 7.30 p.m. You can stream the talks live via our Vimeo channel and access them later. You can meet us here every day – even without a ticket or accreditation. After...
15.–20.6. ONLINE Fest 2021 15.–20.6. ONLINE Fest 2021 15.–20.6. ONLINE Fest 2021
