#InspireInclusion | IWD 2024

To inspire inclusion means to celebrate diversity and empowerment on International Women's Day 2024 and beyond. International Women's Day (IWD) is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a powerful reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done. In 2024, the campaign theme Inspire Inclusion emphasizes the importance of diversity and empowerment in all aspects of society. This year's campaign theme underscores the crucial role of inclusion in achieving gender equality. It calls for action to break down barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create environments where all women are valued and respected. Inspire Inclusion encourages everyone to recognize the unique perspectives and contributions of women from all walks of life, including those from marginalized communities.
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  • Respectable Girls

    Respectable Girls

    Drama, Comedy

    2019

    16+

    For Carys, the end of her relationship is also the end of the world. Single for the first time in ages. And now?


  • What the Fuck is Going On Between Us, Fuck?

    What the Fuck is Going On Between Us, Fuck?

    Shorts, Queer

    2022

    9min

    16+

    Lola's hidden love for teammate Zoe challenges her both on and off the soccer field. Will she score or lose her chance?


  • Bright Women

    Bright Women

    Comedy, Drama

    2023

    1h.42min

    16+

    Karine becomes the leader in the fight for her job, but the young woman is tetanized by an invisible handicap.


  • Fogaréu

    Fogaréu

    Drama, Queer

    2022

    1h.40min

    16+

    In her surreal and fantastic debut, Flávia Neves masterfully combines the search for her own origins with Brazil's colonial past.


  • My Emptiness and I

    My Emptiness and I

    Drama, Queer

    2022

    1h.44min

    16+

    Between everyday call center life and fairy tale fantasies, Raphi goes through her gender reassignment.


  • One in a Million

    One in a Million

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

    Two girls, a fan and an idol, struggle to balance their vulnerability and strength, and their outer image with their inner truth


  • Lucie Loses Her Horse

    Lucie Loses Her Horse

    Drama

    2021

    1h.22min

    16+

    From one moment to the next, actress Lucie is a knight, sword in hand, donned in armor and setting off on quixotic quests.


  • She Is a Good Boy

    She Is a Good Boy

    Drama

    2022

    26min

    16+

    When Ava's father Gunter, a classic macho dude, shows up at her door, worlds collide.


  • Féminin/Féminin

    Féminin/Féminin

    Independent, Queer

    2014

    16+

    A refreshingly realistic, contemporary, and self-ironic look at the lives of 10 lesbian women in Montreal, Canada.


  • The End of Wonderland

    The End of Wonderland

    Documentary, Queer

    2021

    1h.25min

    18

    Artist and sex-industry veteran Tara Emory tries to finish her video porn opus before her landlord kicks her out of her Wonderland studio.


  • Welcome to the Dollhouse

    Welcome to the Dollhouse

    Comedy, Drama

    1996

    1h.28min

    16+

    Todd Solondz's key film of the 90s and Sundance winner manages the balancing act between coming-of-age and social criticism with sublime radicalism.


  • RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words

    RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words

    Biography, Documentary

    2019

    1h.29min

    12

    An intimate look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her incredible rise to become a revered Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.


  • The Surrogate

    The Surrogate

    Drama, Queer

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate mother for her best friend and his husband, but a positive prenatal test threatens their young happiness.


  • Family in Transition

    Family in Transition

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

    An intensely intimate profile of a transgender woman and her wife and children, that refuses to sugarcoat the challenges faced by the family.


  • Cinema Sabaya

    Cinema Sabaya

    Drama

    2021

    1h.35min

    12

    Israel's Official Submission to the 95th Academy Awards is a heartwarming journey of unlikely friendships and empowering conversations.


  • Motorcity

    Motorcity

    Documentary, Independent

    2021

    1h.27min

    16+

    A compelling exploration of the complexities of American life, history, and society through the lens of the unique and fascinating sport drag racing.


  • Beatrix

    Beatrix

    Documentary, Drama

    2021

    1h.35min

    16+

    Milena Czernovsky and Lilith Kraxner's debut blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking, joining a recent trend in the film industry.


  • Stories from the Sea

    Stories from the Sea

    Documentary

    2021

    1h.26min

    16+

    This documentary portrays women who embark on a sea voyage thus challenging traditional gender roles just by being there.


  • Bambi: A French Woman

    Bambi: A French Woman

    Biography, Queer

    2021

    1h.23min

    16+

    The new Director's cut of Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate and portrait of one of the first French trans woman, Marie-Pierre Pruvot, called BAMBI.


  • Looking For Sunshine

    Looking For Sunshine

    Biography, Documentary

    2018

    1h.35min

    16+

    A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.


  • Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, a Queer X Show

    Too Much Pussy! Feminist Sluts, a Queer X Show

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2010

    1h.39min

    18 FSK

    An indulgent, feminist and quirky docu-road movie about post-pornography and the sex-positive women's movement.


  • A Good Man

    A Good Man

    Drama

    2020

    1h.47min

    16+

    Gender, identity and truth: A GOOD MAN explores the ultimate symbol of femininity and the taboo of male pregnancy.


  • My Body, My Rules

    My Body, My Rules

    Documentary, Love & Sex

    2017

    1h.11min

    16+

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


  • Nico

    Nico

    Drama

    2022

    1h.19min

    12 FSK

    Nico, who is both German and Persian, is attacked by racists and beaten to the point of hospitalization. She intends to never be a victim again.


  • Colors of Tobi

    Colors of Tobi

    Documentary, Queer

    2021

    1h.21min

    16+

    The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.


  • Aria le film

    Aria le film

    Documentary, Queer

    2017

    1h.0min

    16+

    How can you become a parent in France as a lesbian, gay or trans person if the laws forbid you to do so?


  • Madalena

    Madalena

    Crime, Drama

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    The body of a trans woman discovered in a soybean field is the start of a storytelling triptych that explores the darker side of Brazilian society.


  • The Forbidden Strings

    The Forbidden Strings

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2019

    1h.22min

    16+

    They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.


  • Freda

    Freda

    Drama

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.


  • Slalom

    Slalom

    Drama

    2021

    1h.32min

    16

    Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.


  • Ladies of the Wood

    Ladies of the Wood

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2021

    1h.32min

    16+

    This fairy tale-tinged documentary explores the urban forest of Paris where trans sex workers and their clients meet.


  • A Maid for Each

    A Maid for Each

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.7min

    16+

    This harrowing documentary exposes the inhumane working conditions of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon that resemble modern-day slavery.


  • To Kill the Beast

    To Kill the Beast

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2022

    1h.20min

    16+

    Queer meets Gothic meets Fantasy. On her journey to sexual awakening, Emilia must confront her past in order to slay a beast.


  • My Last Year as a Loser

    My Last Year as a Loser

    Comedy

    2019

    1h.25min

    16+

    Lighthearted comedy explores the disillusionment, shame and disconnect between well-educated, yet underemployed Millennials, and their fed-up parents.


  • Flesh Out

    Flesh Out

    Drama

    2019

    1h.34min

    16+

    A young woman in Mauritania, is forced to gain weight to meet traditional beauty standards before her upcoming wedding.


  • She's Lost Control

    She's Lost Control

    Drama, Love & Sex

    2014

    1h.30min

    16+

    Ronah is a sex worker and behavioral psychology student. As a surrogate partner, she sleeps with patients who have trouble allowing intimacy.


  • Madeline's Madeline

    Madeline's Madeline

    Drama, Independent

    2018

    1h.33min

    16+

    Madeline is teenager who loves to act on stage. She fights with her mother and suffers from a illness which makes her believe she's a cat.


  • Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three

    Mary Bauermeister - One and One is Three

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.42min

    16+

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


  • Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious

    Amorous, Antiquated, Audacious

    Documentary, Queer

    2009

    1h.4min

    16+

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


  • The Scarecrows

    The Scarecrows

    Drama

    2019

    1h.37min

    16+

    During the Syrian war, two young Tunisian women were held as sex slaves by jihadists. The try to mend their lives.


  • Delphine and Carole

    Delphine and Carole

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.10min

    12

    In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.


  • Boy

    Boy

    Documentary, Icons & Media Art

    2015

    30min

    0 FSK

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


  • People That Are Not Me

    People That Are Not Me

    Drama, Love & Sex

    2016

    1h.18min

    16+

    Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene.


  • Call Me Marianna

    Call Me Marianna

    Documentary, Queer

    2015

    1h.13min

    16+

    Marianna is an 40-year-old woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a gender reassignment.


  • The Longest Night

    The Longest Night

    Crime, Thriller

    2019

    1h.34min

    16+

    This Ecuadorian thriller takes on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and the opioid crisis in a unique visual style.


  • Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR

    Uferfrauen - Lesbian Life and Love in the GDR

    Documentary, Queer

    2020

    1h.56min

    12

    Six very different lesbian women talk about their lives and loves in the socialist system of the GDR.


  • The Rojava Experiment - A Society On The Move

    The Rojava Experiment - A Society On The Move

    Documentary, Independent

    2019

    58min

    16+

    In northern Syria, an anti-hierarchical, multi-ethnic model of democracy was launched in the Rojava region under the leadership of the Kurds.


  • Searching Eva

    Searching Eva

    Documentary, Queer

    2019

    1h.34min

    16 FSK

    Eva, 25, living in Berlin, leads a public life with all the consequences. At 14 she took a new name and declared privacy an outdated concept.


  • Virgins

    Virgins

    Drama

    2018

    1h.30min

    16+

    When a local fisherman claims to have seen a mermaid, tourists flock to the beach at Kiryat Yam, saving teenaged Lana from yet another boring summer.


  • Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

    Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

    Biography, Documentary

    2016

    1h.5min

    16+

    Bernadette Lafont embodied the unyielding desire for freedom and independence like hardly any other actress in her time.


  • Her Job

    Her Job

    Drama, Independent

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    Her work at the mall gives Panayiota a bit of freedom, but the thread of layoffs is looming on the horizon.


  • The Daughters of Fire

    The Daughters of Fire

    Drama, Love & Sex

    2018

    1h.55min

    18 FSK

    Three women set out on a polyamorous journey, in search for new kinds of relationships at the end of the world, far from possession and pain.


  • Femme Brutal

    Femme Brutal

    Music, Dance, Theater, Queer

    2015

    1h.10min

    18

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


  • FtWTF - Female to What The ...

    FtWTF - Female to What The ...

    Documentary, Queer

    2015

    1h.32min

    16+

    Six people talk about the absurd, the sad and above all the beautiful aspects of transitioning.


  • Dil Leyla

    Dil Leyla

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.11min

    12 FSK

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


  • She is the Other Gaze

    She is the Other Gaze

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.30min

    16+

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


  • God is not Working on Sunday!

    God is not Working on Sunday!

    Documentary, Independent

    2015

    1h.22min

    16+

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