Women’s Film Days Tübingen

For International Women's Day, eleven award-winning documentary and feature films from 15 countries will be screened for five days, featuring fascinating guests, at the Kino Museum and d.a.i. Tübingen. From February 25 to March 1, 2026, the Tübingen/Reutlingen city group of TERRE DES FEMMES will present an intense cinematic spectrum that decodes global living realities and challenges in the fight for a world free from violence against women. Resilient, empowered, successful fighters for sexual, reproductive, and political-economic rights demonstrate that resistance against patriarchal structures, sexual violence, "honor" crimes, or exclusion is possible. As the opening film, we will show GIRLS DON’T CRY by director Sigrid Klausmann, along with producer and actor Walter Sittler, on Wednesday, February 25. This touching documentary follows six impressive girls in Tanzania, Chile, England, Serbia, South Korea, and Tübingen as they confront challenges such as early pregnancies, life in exile, racist, transphobic, and gender-stereotypical discrimination, or female genital mutilation, while finding more and more empowerment. Filmmaker Sigrid Klausmann and producer Walter Sittler will be present. The story in Tübingen follows Sheelan, a young Yazidi girl who found refuge in Baden-Württemberg after the massacres of Yazidis in Iraq, as part of the state government's protection program for 1,000 women and children. She is still waiting for the return of her older sister from the captivity of the "Islamic State," wondering if she will ever see her father and brothers again, and is trying to settle in Tübingen, in Germany, which she now considers to be the closest thing to home. Additional films from Iran, Afghanistan, Kenya, Sicily, Vietnam, the USA, and Brazil are planned, addressing topics such as sexual violence and forced marriage, discrimination against disabled women, surrogacy, patriarchal fundamentalism and violence, the rights of female workers, and empowerment in the face of patriarchal structures.