At the opening the Cinema Museum is illuminated in magenta and the TERRE DES FEMMES flags are raised.

The Cinema‘s foyer is filling up with visitors.

Thilo and Pia-Lina welcome the many guests.

Our volunteers at the information desk are ready for all questions about the festival, it’s programm and inform about selected petitions and campaigns.

The Filmfestival team is looking forward to the evening.

Festival director Irene Jung opens the 19th Filmfest Women‘s Worlds for the last time in Tübingen. Together with her guests she is looking back on 18 intensive years, among other things with a short film!

Mayor Boris Palmer thanks Irene Jung for her work and talks about his film highlights at this edition of Women’s Worlds.

The Commissioner for Gender Equality of the town of Tübingen Luzia Köberlein thanks festival director Irene Jung for her commitment to women’s rights and for the beautiful cooperation in the past years.

Luzia Köberlein shares her thoughts about the feature film “The Perfect Candidate” by film director Haifaa Al Mansour, a feature she is especially looking forward to.

TERRE DES FEMMES-CEO Christa Stolle welcomes the audience and talks about the work of TERRE DES FEMMES directed at the topics of women trafficking and prostitution.

The future festival director for the Filmfestival Women’s Worlds in Berlin, Sabrina Kürzinger, is present at the opening ceremony.

Pola Hahn and Irene Jung present this year’s programme, the thematic focuses and the guests of the filmfest.

We thank our supporters, sponsors, donors and cooperation partners.

The smallest team since many years receives a resounding applause for their excessive work of the last months – a work crowned with success! Eva Hieber, Susanne Jahn, Thilo Brunk, Pia-Lina Multhaup, Pola Hahn and Irene Jung are looking forward to a wonderful festival week.

After the film we celebrate with a glass of sparkling wine.

Due to the farewell of the festival from Tübingen there is live music by Fauzia Maria Beg and the band Soul’ MaM!