“Intimately and with great empathy, the film depicts the significance of female community.”
- DOK.fest Munich
Awards
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Award for Best Doc on survival ofIndigenous peoples: XXXVII Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu, Estonia, 2023
Preis Best Film at XX Element Competition: Porto Femme, Porto, Portugal, 2023
Award for Best Editing at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (VIWFF), Canada, 2023
Award for Best First Time Filmmaker at the Women's Voices NowCalifornia, USA, 2023
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First Prize of the SIGNIS jury in the International Competition of FIDBA Buenos Aires International Documentary Festival, Argentina, 2022
Grand Prix Documentaire at Festival International du Film de Femmes de Salé, Morocco, 2022
Honorable Mention Filmpreis Globale Perspektiven, Germany, 2022
Award for best cinematography at Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 2022
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Honorable Mention at 64th DOK, Leipzig, Germany, 2021
Festivals
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HUMAN International Documentary Film Festival – Oslo, Norway, 04 -10 MARCH 2024
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XXXVII Pärnu Film Festival - Pärnu, Estonia - 03 - 09 JULY 2023
Through her eyes Film Festival - Stuttgart, Germany, 13 MAY 2023
Trento International Filmfestival - Trento, Italy, 28APRIL - 07 MAY 2023
Global Health Film Days - Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 APRIL 2023
Porto Femme, Competition XX Element - Porto, Portugal, 18 APRIL - 23 APRIL
International Filmfestival Assen - Assen, Netherlands, 10-12 MARCH, 2023
Women in motion Filmfestival - Accra, Ghana, March 09,2023
Vancouver International Women in Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 07-11 MARCH 2023
Beirut International Women Film Festival - Beirut, Lebanon, 05-10 MARCH 2023
Glasgow Film Festival 2023 - Glasgow, Scotland, 01-12 MARCH 2023
Kodex Documentary Film Festival - Berlin, Germany, 02-08 FEBRUARY, 2023
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival - Helsinki, Finland, JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 05, 2023
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This Human World Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, 10. DECEMBER 2022
frauenstark! Film Festival, Switzerland, Basel, 03 DECEMBER 2022
Human Rights Film Festival Zurich, Switzerland, 2.+3. DECEMBER 2022
FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 30 NOVEMBER - 4 DECEMBER 2022
Mashariki African Film Festival -Kigali, Rwanda, 27-29 NOVEMBER 2022
EQUIS Festival de Cine Feminista de Ecuador - Quito, Ecuador, 08-20 NOVEMBER 2022
Augenblicke Afrika Filmfestival -Hamburg, Germany, 03-13 NOVEMBER 2022
MOVE IT! Film Festival for Human Rights - Dresden, Germany, 03-09 NOVEMBER 2022
Afrika Film Festival Gent - Leuven, Belgium, 25-28 OCTOBER 2022
Portland Film Festival - Portland, Oregon, USA, 12-22 OCTOBER 2022
Festival International du Film de Femmes de Salé - Salé, Morocco, 26 SEPTEMBER - 01 OCTOBER 2022
Filmtage Globale Perspektiven - Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 15-18 SEPTEMBER 2022
NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival - Romania, 7-11 SEPTEMBER 2022
Film Festival della Lessinia - Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy, 19-28 AUGUST 2022
Kino am Meer - Rügen, Germany, 26 AUGUST 2022
Encounters, South African International Film Festival - South Africa, Africa, 23 JUNE - 03 JULY 2022 - including workshop on intercultural collaboration
Zanzibar International Film Festival - Stonetown, Tansania, 16-26 JUNE 2022
Mumbai International Film Festival - Mumbai, India, 25-29 MAY 2022
Addis Ababa International Film Festival - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Opening Film of the festival 25/05/2022
DOK.fest Munich - Germany, Screening and Atelier-Conversation 05/2022
Achtung Berlin - New Berlin Film Award - Berlin, Germany, 20-27 APRIL 2022
Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival - Potsdam, Germany, 20-24 APRIL 2022
Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos Donostia - San Sebastian Human Rights FF, Spain 04/2022
iRep International Documentary Film Festival - Lagos, Nigeria, 18-21 MARCH 2022
AFI Silver, New African Film Festival - Silver Springs, USA 03/2022
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival - Open Horizons, 03/2022
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Biberacher Filmfestspiele, Biberach, Germany, NOVEMBER 2021
Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, Screening, Case study and Workshop 11/2021 - including workshop on intercultural collaboration.
DOK Leipzig, International Competion, Leipzig, Germany, OCTOBER 2021
Nominations
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Nomination for African Studies Association Film Prize, 2023, African Studies Association
Nomination for Roman Brodmann Prize 2023
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Nomination for Deutscher Menschenrechtsfilmpreis 2022, Catergory: Hochschule
Nomination for the VFF Production Award at dok.fest Munich 2022
Nomination for Students Award at dok.fest Munich 2022
Nomination for German Documentary Film Music Award at dok.fest Munich 2022
Nomination for the Editing Award 2022 at “Deutscher Kamerapreis” 2022
Nomination for DEFA Sponsoring Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize, Prize of the Interreligious Jury at DOK Leipzig 2022
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World Premiere
DOK Leipzig International Competition
Leipzig, Germany