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Feature films


Boys who Like Girls
by Inka Achté

India/Finland/Norway 2018, 68 min., documentary, Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles

16-year-old Ved lives with his siblings and his mother, who suffers under the violent attacks of his father, in the slums of Mumbai. He’s invited by Harish to take part in MAVA, a project that aims to prevent violence against women based on toxic masculinity. In it’s workshops and theater groups it guides young men towards alternatives of an emancipated masculinity. Here, Ved discovers an unexpected new passion: dancing.

Kino Museum Mon 25.11. 6:00 p.m.

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Chichinette - How I Accidentally Became A Spy
by Nicola Alice Hens

Germany/USA/France 2019, 86 min., documentary, French, English with German subtitles

After almost 60 years of silence, the vivacious 99-year-old Marthe Cohn, alias “Chichinette” talks about her extraordinary life: she helped beat the Nazis as a spy behind enemy lines in WW2. Now she travels the world with seemingly boundless energy, captivating people of all generations, especially the young, with her story.
In cooperation with d.a.i.

Kino Museum Sun 24.11. 6:00 p.m. I Kino Waldhorn Tue 26.11. 6:00 p.m.

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Delband – Beloved
by Yaser Talebi

Iran 2018, 61 min., documentary, Persian with English subtitles

The strong-willed 82-year-old shepherdess Firouzeh enjoys her absolute independence with her cows in the crystal-clear, breathtaking landscape of Northern Iran. She loves doing the hard work all alone, including chopping wood and climbing trees. Widow of a forced marriage and having raised 11 kids, this is the least she deserves. Now she refuses to move to the comforts of village life in the valley…
Nominated audience award IDFA

Kino Museum Sat 23.11.2019., 3:30 p.m.
Double program, together with the documentary short film Mulherada

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In Search...
by Beryl Magoko & Jule Katinka Cramer

Germany/Kenya/Belgium 2018, 90 min., documentary, English, Kiswahili with German subtitles

As a young girl, Beryl thought that all women were circumcised. She also was put through the initiation ritual of genital mutilation. Many years later she learns about an operation that can recreate what she was deprived of. Will this solve her painful problems? Should she put herself through it? She travels across Europe and Africa, to other affected women, to find out. In the end, she will also face her mother…
8 international awards, a. o. DOK Leipzig and IDFA

Director present

Kino Museum Tue 26.11. 6:00 p.m.

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In the Name of Your Daughter
by Giselle Portenier

Tanzania/Canada 2018, 85 min., documentary, French, English, Kiswahili with German subtitles

It’s school holidays for Rosie, Zawadie and Flora. For other girls cause for cheer, but not for these young Tanzanians. At home, despite the ban, the threat of genital mutilation hangs over them. Rhobi Samwelli runs a safehouse that provides sanctuary for over 200 threatened girls. Together with the police, she uses everything in her power to protect them – and the girls show immeasurable bravery in standing up against this ancient tradition.
2 International awards

Expert Dr. Gisela Schneider, DIFÄM, present

Kino Museum Mon 25.11. 6:00 p.m.

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La Arrancada – On the Starting Line
by Aldemar Matias

Cuba/Brazil/France 63 min., documentary, Spanish with English subtitles

On your mark, get set, go! But where to? Jenniffer is in her early 20s and pursuing her dream of an athletics career in Havanna, supported by her tough and loving mother, Marbelis. Then she is injured and can no longer run. She’s back at the starting block, with her unresolved questions: should she give up sports altogether? Stay in Cuba or leave?
World Premiere Berlinale 2019

Kino Museum Sat 23.11. 4:00 p.m.

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Mulherada
by Ella Antoni

Brazil 2018, 20 min., documentary short film, Portuguese with German subtitles

Carmen and her friends, ordinary women of rural Brazil, are fed up with the brutality of their men and pursue the extraordinary: to build a community free of violence. Driven by female solidarity, empathy and intuition, gender roles are turned upside down and abusive men now respect if not fear the fierce women, their whistles, not to mention their impending sex strike!

Director present

Kino Museum Sat 23.11. 3:30 p.m.
Double program, along with the documentary Delband – Beloved

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Que sea ley - Let it Be Law
by Juan Diego Solanas

Argentina/France/Uruguay 86 min., documentary, Spanish with English subtitles

Thousands of women and men form an ocean of green in the streets of Buenos Aires, passionately demonstrating for the right to accessible, legal and safe abortion. This moving documentary highlights personal fates – among them deadly outcomes of illegal abortions – and accompanies the protests, the fierce outcry of the Argentinian women against the dominating catholic and fundamentalist-evangelical patriarchy.
Nominated in Cannes and San Sebastián 2019
In Cooperation with Amnesty International Tübingen

Expert Dr. Gabriele Halder present

Kino Museum Thu 21.11. 6:00 p.m.
Kino Waldhorn Sat 23.11. 6:00 p.m.

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Sands of Silence – Waves of Courage
by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle

USA/Spain 2016, 86 min., documentary, English, Spanish, Nepali with English subtitles

Journalist Chelo covers women’s improbable stories of survival from all over the globe. Her approach to the topic is personal, as a young girl she witnessed the sexual abuse of her own little sister. The documentary is intimate, switching from lively reflections within her own family in Spain to the tragic yet hopeful stories of women that escaped from brothels in Mumbai or human trafficking in Mexico.
11 International awards | In cooperation with d.a.i.

Director present

Kino Museum Wed 27.11. 6:00 p.m.

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Sembradoras de vida - Mothers of the Land
by Álvaro & Diego Sarmiento

Peru 74 min., documentary, Spanish, Quechua with English subtitles

High in the Peruvian Andes, indigenous women cultivate Quinoa, Amaranth a.o. using traditional, organic methods. In the Andean cosmovision women and the earth are closely linked, both being able to give and nourish life. Within the context of advancing climate changes and agricultural industrialization, they become protectors of nature, even traveling to the North Pole to deposit their local seeds into the “Global Seed Vault.”
World premiere at the Berlinale 2019

Kino Museum Sun 24.11. 4:00 p.m.

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Admission Free!
Verliebt, verführt, verkauft

by Diana Ahrabian

Germany 2018, 44 min., documentary, German Version

Nadja is deeply in love; her first boyfriend! But the enchantment turns into lies, threats and violence, as he manipulates her into prostitution to help him out of an invented “emergency”. Alarming interviews with affected young women, telephone recordings of boastful pimps, and the efforts of police and activists to combat the infamous method of these “Loverboys”.

Survivor of the „Loverboy-Method “ Sandra Norak present

Kino Museum Fri 22.11. 5:00 p.m.
Introductory film for the subsequent panel conversation „Stop Buying Sex – Now!“


Whispering Truth to Power
by Shameela Seedat

South Africa/Netherlands 2018, 87 min., documentary, English, Zulu, Sotho with English subtitles

As South Africa’s “public protector”, Thuli Madonsela defends the rights of disadvantaged people against the arbitrariness of governmental power. She helps farmwomen receive compensation payments, forces President Zuma to restitute misappropriated government funds. After that, all hell breaks loose – she receives death threats. Madonsela keeps her stoic calm and advances – towards the next and decisive corruption scandal…
3 awards, a.o. Audience award Minneapolis

Kino Museum Tue 26.11. 6:00 p.m.

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Women’s Voice - India’s Choice
by Shammi Singh

India, Germany 70 min., documentary, German Version

Filmmaker Shammi Singh travels through India meeting women from diverse jobs, social classes and religions. The women, who are so often described as victims, prove to be impressive, powerful personalities, as they tell of their struggles, challenges, reflections, hopes, and of their achievements.

Director present

Kino Museum Fri 22.11. 6:00 p.m.

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