The Women’s Film Festival will take place in Tübingen from 25 February to 1 March 2026. It is organised by the Terre des Femmes association. Ten award-winning documentaries and feature films from eleven countries will be shown over five days. The selection highlights the lives and struggles of women fighting for a world without violence. The films will be shown at the Museum Cinema and the German-American Institute (d.a.i.). The programme can be found at
https://www.frauenfilmtagetuebingen.de/.
Women fighting against violence
The programme includes contributions from Germany, Italy, Georgia, Afghanistan and Iran, among others. The film The Last Ambassador, for example, is about the Afghan ambassador to Vienna, Manizha Bakhtari, who fights for the rights of Afghan women and girls. The directors and protagonists of some of the films will also be in attendance.
Women’s Film Festival with directors
Jihan Alomar, now 21, will attend the audience discussion of the opening film Girls Don’t Cry on 25 February at the Museum cinema, which shows how women from six cultures are fighting back against discrimination. On 3 August 2014, as a child, she was abducted by IS terrorists along with her mother and siblings and held captive for ten months under the worst conditions. In 2015, part of the Alomar family, including Jihan, was freed and able to travel to Germany. She lives in Tübingen.
Further information at:
https://www.frauenfilmtagetuebingen.de/
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