Women

Johanna Dohnal, icon of the Austrian women's movement and first Minister for Women's Affairs, shaped the Alpine Republic like hardly any other.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

A transgressive and political film about female nudity and how it is depicted.

Elza lives in a small town on the Caspian Sea. While her husband catches fish illegally, she dreams of breaking out of her small world.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

In the formerly male-dominated world of wrestling, a courageous woman struggles to be taken seriously as an athlete and performer.

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.

Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.

This film immerses us directly into the daily lives of three women who are trapped in violent, abusive relationships.

Germany's only trans* pastor.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

This ambitious directorial debut chronicles lesbian lifestyles and social networking in Vienna in the 1950s and 60s.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.

Filmmaker Erik Lemke (BERLIN EXCELSIOR) portrays his great-aunt Evelin: she was born a man, in a country that no longer exists.

Susan is a glamorous train wreck: a delusional drug-addict and psychotic who compares herself to the likes of Maria Callas and Romy Schneider.

After playing a sexually charged game with her best friend, below the cliffs of Dubrovnik, a teenage girl doesn't return home.

Mara jumps from a bridge to her death - and wakes up in the hospital. But something's wrong. No one recognizes her.

A film about the absurdities of being a mom today.

WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the Internet.

The farewell show of queer performers at the Burlesque Brutal club in Vienna.

Ivette Löcker accompanies two addicted St. Petersburgers in her documentary chamber play.

Two bored teenage girls go on a rampage through their home village. Will their friendship survive this day?

An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.

The love and life suffering of young people between Cologne and Berlin, with Woody Allenesque lightness.

A monument for one of New Yorks most singular theater enthusiast.

Birgit Gohlke has stuttered since early childhood. She deals well with it, but after watching "The King's Speech", Birgit decides to take action.

At the age of 17, the Gambian woman Sadi fled from the genital mutilation. Through the Sahara, Libya and across the Mediterranean to Sicily.

Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.

Portrait of five female Viennese artists, who in their pioneering role have left their mark on contemporary art.

Stuck in her everyday life, Antonia oversleeps, procrastinates, and surfs the internet. Until she decides to asks her fling for a steady relationship.

After an assault, Maya tries to find her way back into life.

Settle into the tranquility of a Benedictine monastery.

As a child, Veronika Raila was certified with an IQ of zero. Today she studies literature and theology and publishes poetry and prose.

Only armed with a phone number and a blurry profile picture, Lene searches the streets of Berlin an online acquaintance.

A dystopian matriarchy, the Sisterhood of Metacontrol, rules Europe. A male slave violates the law by watching rebellious porn movies.

Hobo Beate lives with her disabled child in a tent. One day, law enforcement turns their lives upside down. And so the journey begins.

A German Mumblecore movie, an ode to the city of Berlin, a romantic comedy, father-daughter drama, and a portrait of a woman all rolled into one.

In the distant country of ABSURDISTAN, the men are lazy, whereupon the women go on a sex strike.

Berlin, summer 2016: Nola, Katja and Martina live near Hauptbahnhof. Time is running out - they are going to lose their flat. "What now?" they ask.

Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.

A reclusive man must break out of his self-imposed prison. But neither he nor the outside world is ready for it.

Philippe, who has just been released from prison, meets Avdal, a Kurd who is looking for an Iraqi war criminal.

In, part one of this sci-fi triology, a vertical solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been found.

Seven female criminals have to work off their community service hours in a cursed forest.

When Mareks cousin comes to live with him and his family, his life is uprooted.

After the bloody genocide 20 years ago, Rwanda made a remarkable turnaround, which was primarily made possible by the country's women.

The walk through the financially battered city of Athens, destination unknown, is a bittersweet confrontation with the Greek economic crisis.

Carine Roy's documentary is dedicated to one of the world's most famous architects and the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

A personal documentary and biography about the history of a royal family in the unusual African country of Botswana.

A glass van with a mounted camera drives through the streets of Beirut and explores the city from behind the glass.

This documentary accompanies the artist Vera Lossau for a year in her creative process with a focus on Vera's visual observations.

These self-assured ladies have everything under control, but in a world dominated by high tech communications and competition even they get the blues.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

Documentary about an age-old Albanian custom that lets women change their social gender by taking the oath of a “sworn virgin”.

Militarization and prostitution: When peacekeeping troops moved into Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, trafficking in women quickly followed suit.

This documentary accompanies a woman on her erotic expeditions through clubs and barracks of the US Army in Frankfurt am Main.

A playful romanticist has been waiting for the love of her life to return – when suddenly her newly separated mother moves in.

Two lonely people meet in opposing phases of life. On a busy summer day, they happen to be in the same taxi at the same time.

LOTTE, with her snappy, big city attitude, is impulsive and rough around the edges. No wonder she's constantly clashing with everybody.

In elegant CinemaScope images, this film tells the story of the housekeeper Nadja in times of economic crisis as a tender melodrama.

ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.

This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.

What's reality and what's art? What happens when the tables are turned, and art no longer imitates nature but things go the other way round?

A doc about four extraordinary women pursuing the same dream: composing, producing and living from their own music, without compromising their ideals

This is the story of a 14 year old girl and her mobile phone. The content Elise posts on social media gets out of hand, and out of her control.

The stories of two women, who only through acts of violence, could claim visibility.

A life crisis and an encounter make Roman question everything.

German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.

Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker Tali Tiller embarks on an emotional search for traces of her grandmother in Lodz, Poland.

How could the nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann lead such an inconspicuous life in Argentina? A search for traces among his former Jewish neighbors.

In this celebration of childhood, a 10-year-old girl struggles to find her place in a 'boys' world.

This captivating film shows the less-knon sides of the Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, aka Empress Sissi on her travels to Egypt in 1885 and 1891.

Although they have lost everything through their flight, the Jesidesses Hedil and Naam fight for a dignified life for their families.

Lucie is waiting at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere. But instead of a bus, only strange people turn up.

This fakedocumentary tells of Jasper's search for truthfulness, which is doomed to failure when he turns from observer to participant.

When a young man enters the idyllic but secluded life of the mother Lilli and her daughter Ilvy, the bond between mother and child is threatened.

During WWI the war reaches a small village and changes the fate of an older woman and her 12 year old friend.

When Mika enters 15-year-old Alicia life, she is confused by their appearance.

LIKE A SUMMER SONATA consists of four parts named after the classical structure of a sonata. In timeless black and white, it's a surreal, modern-day morality ...

Celebrated in the world of fashion for her eccentric outfits, Anna Piaggi was living testimony to the fusion of art, society and culture.

BOLINGO, THE FOREST OF LOVE is a documentary about women fighting for survival for themselves and their children.

Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.

The 'Arctic Circle Spirit Ice Queens' from a town in the Arctic Circle are probably the saddest and weakest cheerleading team in Finland.

The Finnish short comedy by Miia Tervo portrays an anything but typical relationship between a loving father and his skeptical daughter.

Who would have thought that a second Angie might be hiding behind a Lübeck housewife? An examination of the phenomenon of the double.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

Gwen makes herself invisible to search for her own life form and to be able to study those of the others secretly. With an unpredictable outcome...