The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
An abandoned, crumbling kindergarten as a secret sanctuary – this is the dream of Mery, Rosy and Angelo, three eleven-year-olds growing up in Danisinni. In this deprived, crime-ridden neighbourhood in the heart of Palermo, Sicily, the children long for a safe place to call their own. With determination and...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
An abandoned, crumbling kindergarten as a secret sanctuary – this is the dream of Mery, Rosy and Angelo, three eleven-year-olds growing up in Danisinni. In this deprived, crime-ridden neighbourhood in the heart of Palermo, Sicily, the children long for a safe place to call their own. With determination and...
Karla grows up in the small mountain town of Tepoztlán in Mexico. The documentary follows her over a period of eight years, from childhood into adolescence, from the first tentative questions to the moment she understands exactly who she is. Karla is trans, and the film shows how identity...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The programme for age 16 and over explores family relationships, home and tradition – and the move away from stereotyped gender roles towards female self-determination. In Night Watchers, Nora rebels against the custom barring her, as a woman, from attending her grandmother’s funeral in Algeria. Nine Days in August...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
Karla grows up in the small mountain town of Tepoztlán in Mexico. The documentary follows her over a period of eight years, from childhood into adolescence, from the first tentative questions to the moment she understands exactly who she is. Karla is trans, and the film shows how identity...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
Inner and outer struggles define the line-up of films for ages 12 and up. In Ostrich, a sparrow chases a social media idol – humour and vivid imagination meet a sharp critique of beauty ideals and compulsion to compare. In Teen Angst, nine young Ukrainian girls document their everyday...
Mieke Murkes, a queer Korean adoptee, grew up in the Netherlands. In adulthood, she finds out that her Korean parents are looking for her and travels to South Korea. The film portrays the challenges of reuniting as a family after so many years, dealing with geographic distance, language barriers,...
Jelena Ilić’s father was convicted of aggravated assault and spent many years in a forensic psychiatric clinic. The director salvaged shovelfuls of debris from his apartment, including his artistically staged self-portraits. This image runs like a thread through the entire film, which, despite its very personal focus, is a...
»The film is a call for change, urging future generations to break the cycle of silence and oppression.« Semmalar Annam
Mayilaa is a young mother, caught in a cycle of domestic violence and crushing poverty. She works as a day labourer, sorting scrap metal from toxic sand. One crisis follows...
In collaboration with the Mediengründerzentrum NRW, we are presenting an evening packed with compelling questions on the topics of production and women-led businesses. We look forward to a discussion with two influential producers who are challenging stereotypes and redefining roles both artistically and entrepreneurially: the multi-award-winning film producer Melanie...
»I did not ›decide‹ to make this movie. It sort of happened on its own, sometimes despite myself and itself! Throughout the five years of its making, it ended up being more like a quilt, a patchwork of autobiographies, geographies and genres.« Athina Rachel Tsangari
Petra Going is a professional...
Agatha is 90 years old and lives alone on an old family farm in the Canadian province of Manitoba with virtually no modern technology, no car or mobile phone. Her life instead follows the cycles of nature – she sows, tends and harvests varieties of seeds and plants that...
Over the course of four years, Chão follows one of Latin America’s largest grassroots movements, the »Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra« (MST). For decades, the movement has challenged Brazil’s extreme concentration of land ownership, demanding agrarian reform, affordable housing and the right to a dignified life in the...
»There is an abyss between the mother and the child.« Julia Kristeva
Linda (Rose Byrne), mother and therapist, drifts through a feverish spiral of exhaustion, guilt and absurd obligations. Her husband (Christian Slater), a »captain at sea«, exists mostly as a disembodied voice on the phone; her chronically ill daughter...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
The 14+ programme features films that read norms on the body – and challenge them, too. In Hairy Legs, leg hair becomes the starting point for an autobiographical journey through shame, the experience of being watched and self-determination. The Mixed Curl Quarrel traces identity through Afro hair. SKRFF peels...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Slow, fast, soaring high – these movements run through the short film programme for ages four and up. Hymns of a Tiny World – The Birds of New Zealand celebrates New Zealand’s extraordinary birdlife in a picture-book aesthetic. In The Rumble-Bumble Rally, Mathilde’s tidy-up spirals into a wild adventure...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
Unlikely friendships are at the centre of the programme for ages six and up, bringing together creatures and worlds that were never supposed to meet. A tiny bottle opener makes peace through shared music with a group of mice in a magical, dreamlike stop-motion setting (Tin Tune). A human...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
The ages eight and up programme takes up the old, but never outdated dream of flying – as a longing for space and freedom. Nele in den Wolken captures a ten-year-old girl’s wish to touch the clouds, creating a striking image of her desire for independence, set against the...
Camera operator Naru (played by Sadat herself) has given up on the men of Afghanistan. An incompetent husband, physical abuse as a child and everyday aggression – these are not only her experiences but also those of her female colleagues at the TV station, her girlfriends and the market...
Making a film with your own family can sometimes be the only way to create an unbiased and less censored space for the stories of individual family members and yourself, and to make experiences open to discussion, precisely through the presence and witnessing by the camera and a team...
The legacies of the past are always our present, and the histories that we are not able to confront continue to play out. This is certainly true in Kenya, where the unfinished business of the Mau Mau war and the injustices of British colonial rule endure. Filmed over almost...
Female Gaze – CineOne & sPOTTlight National Award for Best Female Director of Photography in a Fiction Film
Jury’s statement (Greta Isabella Conte, Eva Maschke, Gisela Tuchtenhagen)
Lisa Jilg’s camera work in Vena is marked by a radical intensity that allows no distance. Bold, unflinching and documentary in quality, it draws...
Traces give rise to actions – a photograph among grains of rice, a faint silhouette over the field, and a dream. In this dream, Ángela hears her father calling her. A call that stirs the past and connects her to the present lives of two sisters. They decide to...
Welcome to the Herat International Women’s Film Festival, Afghanistan’s first international women’s film festival! After a decade of success, the festival was forced into exile following the Taliban takeover; from the US, festival founder Roya Sadat is trying to keep it going against all odds. By providing a platform...
Welcome to the Herat International Women’s Film Festival, Afghanistan’s first international women’s film festival! After a decade of success, the festival was forced into exile following the Taliban takeover; from the US, festival founder Roya Sadat is trying to keep it going against all odds. By providing a platform...
ÔRÍ (»head« in Yoruba) is an essayistic documentary film made in close collaboration with historian and activist Beatriz Nascimento, and is pioneering in bringing to an international audience the thought of historian
and activist Beatriz Nascimento on the historiography of the quilombos. The film traces the emergence and self-organisation of...
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens take us on an irresistibly humorous journey into their eco-sexual world of human/non-human collaborations and show us how the climate crisis should be considered in conjunction with social justice and the fight against racism and transphobia. Amusingly narrated by Albert, the mythical white peacock...
Set between London and Scotland’s northern coast, The Son and the Sea follows three young men on the edge of adulthood. Jonah and Lee escape the wild, listless drift of their everyday lives on a journey north, where they meet Charlie, a deaf local who bears the weight of many...
»When I get old, will I be this lonely too?« What starts with finding the first grey hairs in the mirror marks the beginning of a tender and quiet exploration of old age. Neighbour Friedel Miko, who is almost a hundred years old, describes her everyday life and the...
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
Digital frustration, analogue ghosts, creative crises, rifts, rewritten history, reversed gender roles, empowerment. A feminist short film programme that faces the absurdities and challenges of life with humour and insight.
»Are we telling the stories that we really want to tell, or is the funding dictating the stories we tell?« Vincho Nchogu
It’s a milestone moment: the members of the Kenyan village of Sayit receive official documents recognising, for the first time, their ownership of the land based on kinship...
A film women can enter like clear water: at its centre is Gina Rønning, a psychologist from Portland, Oregon, whose »mersona« – Una the Mermaid – guides, or rather swims through the film. Una searches for kindred spirits and finds them in the genuinely thriving merfolk subculture. The filmmakers...
An empty kitchen table, covered with a colourful tablecloth. Abandoned places. Photos in a family album. Faded memories. An exploration of the impossibility of describing how it feels to live in Tehran, or to be in exile with both heart and mind. Bani Khoshnoudi tells us stories from the...
Ecstatic, convulsing bodies – »St. Vitus’ dance«, a phenomenon dating back to the Middle Ages when people danced publicly to the point of collapse, is revived in 1988 by 13 men and women in Erfurt. Their bodies suggest that anyone can claim public spaces and move as freely and...
Ecstatic, convulsing bodies – »St. Vitus’ dance«, a phenomenon dating back to the Middle Ages when people danced publicly to the point of collapse, is revived in 1988 by 13 men and women in Erfurt. Their bodies suggest that anyone can claim public spaces and move as freely and...
An intensive networking event for all festival guests and industry professionals looking to make as many contacts as possible in a short space of time. Representatives from various sectors, filmmakers, producers, curators and many more will come together in the welcoming atmosphere of the Orangerie theater to kick off...
It all began with a flash of light: Sophie Maintigneux gained recognition in the 1980s for her sensitive cinematography in Éric Rohmer’s Le rayon vert. This was followed by some 70 films, including Ostkreuz (Michael Klier, 1991), Gotteszell (Helga Reidemeister, 2001), Die dünnen Mädchen (Maria Teresa Camoglio, 2008), Fräulein...
In 2023, the Republican-governed US state of Tennessee passed a law prohibiting gender-affirming medical care for under-18s. In 2024, the US Supreme Court is set to rule on whether this law should be subject to »heightened scrutiny«, i.e. whether it discriminates against certain groups of people.
The film centres on...
»If I forgot about myself, it wouldn’t be good for my daughter.« Alexandra Makarová
In 1980s Vienna, dissident artist Perla has built a successful, stable life with her daughter Julia, a talented young pianist, and her new partner Josef. The traumas of her youth in communist Czechoslovakia have faded or...
In times when everyone is constantly filming themselves and stories begin with the self, we meet filmmaker Sophie. Suffering from a broken heart, she tries to devote herself fully to her work. She wants to find a subject that truly interests her and seems meaningful. She goes looking around...
A village in Anatolia, Türkiye. The young Shirin is to be married against her will. She flees to Cologne. She tries to make a life for herself in Germany as one of the »guest workers« recruited by the government, juggling factory work, life in a hostel and dance bars...
»There can be no commons without community.« Silvia Federici
For Silvia Federici, current resistance to the destructive forces of turbo-capitalism is part of an ongoing revolt against the enclosure of communal land and social relations. In Europe, land privatisation began in the late 15th century, coinciding with colonial expansion. In...
Female Gaze – CineOne & sPOTTlight National Award for Best Female Director of Photography in a Documentary
Jury’s statement (Greta Isabella Conte, Eva Maschke, Gisela Tuchtenhagen)
With Where the Waves Took Her, Sophia Fenn delivers outstanding cinematography that approaches a deeply complex subject with sensitivity and clear purpose. Her camera stays...
Filmtonfrauen e. V. and toruspost invite you to a joyful sound experience. Dolby Atmos has become the new cinema standard. In toruspost’s spacious Cinema Mischatelier in Cologne’s Südstadt district, we want to immerse ourselves together in immersive film sound design, soundscapes and music.
Registration by email: info@filmtonfrauen.de
At the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, South African queer activist Beverley Palesa Ditsie delivered a historical speech arguing that »lesbian rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights«. In 2020, Ditsie rejoins fellow activists to commemorate and celebrate this significant event for...
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
»Nunkui is a story of resistance that emerges from the female practice of tending the garden and honouring the spirits of the Earth. I want to portray the beauty and the pain that comes with growing up in a hostile world and in the fight for territory.» Verenice...
Their hands trace the grooves in the wood of the fifty-year-old catamaran, grasp the ropes and embrace each other. Three women who have set out together to cross the Atlantic are gripped by a different perception of time and life’s possibilities whilst at sea. Women & the Wind is...
A quarter of Martinique is contaminated. Not by a natural disaster, but by colonial poisoning, with France as an accomplice. For decades, Chlordecone – a highly toxic pesticide – was dumped onto the fields to preserve the banana industry, a system directly descended from the plantation economy. Soil, water...
History can’t be thought of in linear terms. The overlapping events of historical change are always seeking new connections. Lana Daher understands this and states right away that her film is not meant as a chronological account of Lebanon. The result is a film unlike anything seen before –...
»Figures like Teresa and Milena could easily be among us today: women who unsettle the structures that seek to discipline them.« Hana Jušić
Wind lashes across the Croatian mountains. A mysterious figure emerges from the darkness. Teresa, at once an outsider and bound to the family she has married into,...
Manok, the owner of what used to be an iconic lesbian bar in Seoul, hits rock bottom when her mother dies and her bar gets squeezed out by a younger queer scene. Disappointed by her partner and the queer community she once helped build, she returns to her rural...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
They’ll break you down if you’re on your own. This short film program with live music celebrates communities that stand together joyfully, defiantly, and strongly.
The programme grew out of a spontaneous and joyful exchange between two film curators. Our resources are rich archives of feminist films we love, and...
Let’s put the fest back into festival! Whether it’s wild dancing or a relaxed chat with friends – come along, bring your favourite people and have a great time. Accordingly to the feminist motto: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” The feminist...
The word curate derives from »curare« – to care for. If we also understand curatorial intuition as something that takes responsibility for the work it presents, the question arises: what actually defines queer-feminist curating? This panel discusses the historical foundations of feminist film history and offers insights into festival...
A red thread stretches between the fingers of our protagonists, reminding us of the myth of Ariadne. In this sensuous and visually striking experimental film, Alice Dalgalarrondo weaves together the stories of six female characters. In doing so, she offers a guide to engaging with feminist storytelling. The narrators’...
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
Screening of Niñxs (Kani Lapuerta) and Genderf***kers (Majana Ellie Urban).
A family programme about gender identity and transition.
Guest: Majana Ellie Urban
»I was afraid of disturbing her while she was walking. I always lit a new candle because I thought that if it went out, Mum would be gone too. When Mum died, the candle just kept burning.« Jacqueline Jansen
One final breath, then her mother is gone – far too...
Screening of Un dessert pour Constance (Sarah Maldoror) and Ouverture du théâtre noir à Paris (Sarah Maldoror).
Screening of Un dessert pour Constance (Sarah Maldoror) and Ouverture du théâtre noir à Paris (Sarah Maldoror).
Screening of Un dessert pour Constance (Sarah Maldoror) and Ouverture du théâtre noir à Paris (Sarah Maldoror).
The four films in this programme explore queerness as something fragile, hard-earned and deeply connecting. Spanning generations, relationships and self-chosen families, they address the desire for community, the passing on of experiences, and the tension between closeness, silence and betrayal. Spaces emerge in bodies, gazes, memories and political realities...
The four films in this programme explore queerness as something fragile, hard-earned and deeply connecting. Spanning generations, relationships and self-chosen families, they address the desire for community, the passing on of experiences, and the tension between closeness, silence and betrayal. Spaces emerge in bodies, gazes, memories and political realities...
The four films in this programme explore queerness as something fragile, hard-earned and deeply connecting. Spanning generations, relationships and self-chosen families, they address the desire for community, the passing on of experiences, and the tension between closeness, silence and betrayal. Spaces emerge in bodies, gazes, memories and political realities...
The four films in this programme explore queerness as something fragile, hard-earned and deeply connecting. Spanning generations, relationships and self-chosen families, they address the desire for community, the passing on of experiences, and the tension between closeness, silence and betrayal. Spaces emerge in bodies, gazes, memories and political realities...
The four films in this programme explore queerness as something fragile, hard-earned and deeply connecting. Spanning generations, relationships and self-chosen families, they address the desire for community, the passing on of experiences, and the tension between closeness, silence and betrayal. Spaces emerge in bodies, gazes, memories and political realities...
Opening this film are the machines. The ceaseless, repetitive movements of rollers, levers and mechanical parts. Materials being mixed and shaped, eventually recognisable as lipsticks. Archival footage from the industrial production of what we call beauty products, later interspersed with dough being kneaded and needles being inserted into skin....
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