The Woman Who Poked the Leopard is an intimate portrait of Ugandan poet-academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi, who defies state repression with bold acts of resistance. Through performance and protest, Stella confronts dictatorship and patriarchy. She navigates threats, imprisonment, and exile to reclaim autonomy both for her nation and her own family.
Patience Nitumwesiga makes her feature-length debut with a sharp portrait of a figure as radical as she is fascinating: Stella. Through her story, the film reveals the urgency of activism and feminism within a suffocating regime, while showing how a life shaped by militancy, politics, prison, and poetry inevitably reverberates in the most intimate sphere: the family.
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Tuesday
12/05
20:30 h
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Renoir | Sala 6
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Thursday
14/05
18:45 h
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Renoir | Sala 6
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DOK Leipzig 2025 / ver.di Prize
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2025
The Beauty of Errors explores the evolving bond between a father and son. As years pass, their closeness grows. But when Henri chooses a life with his girlfriend, Tero must learn to face his world alone. Loneliness is just around the corner, and he has to stand by himself, while facing the universal fear of losing love.
Kärkkäinen takes us to rural Finland to explore masculinity, family, and alcoholism. More than fifteen years after The Living Room of a Nation, where he portrayed the characters for the first time, he reintroduces them now through everyday scenes full of humor and melancholy, revealing the small details that weave this father-son relationship at a time of change, when we witness that time does not stop.
In 1996, a Brazilian official and a Swedish journalist ventured into the Amazon to document the isolated Korubo tribe caught in escalating land conflicts. Initially hailed as a heroic breakthrough, the footage now demands to be re-examined. Uncovering the hidden costs of “discovery,” the film confronts the colonial legacy and exposes the long-term repercussions for the Korubo.
The screening on Sunday the 10th will be followed by the Conversation on ‘Amazomania’activity
More than a century ago, Flosi Björnsson and his brothers isolated themselves at the foot of Iceland’s largest glacier. None married or had children; they devoted their lives to the glacier before anyone spoke of its melting. Their farm remained sealed until now. Photographer Ragnar Axelsson returns and invokes Flosi’s voice, which draws pilgrims. The glacier sings a requiem beneath a white shroud.
The screening on Saturaday the 9th will include a complimentary beer after the session, courtesy of Moritz.
Dimitri loves photographing friends, strangers, and lovers, but over time images have been slipping from his sight. He knows that one day he will no longer see. Unable to shoot as before, the film follows him as he captures the world through the streets of Paris and New York, and is captured in return through encounters, gazes, and memories, inviting us to discover the hidden face of the Earth.
While telling her daughter a bedtime story, Mailin pieces together her memories. What could have been a fairy tale turns out to be the story of a girl who suffered abuse by a priest for fifteen years. It is a long journey toward healing and justice, but also an opportunity to give her daughter the childhood she never had.
After winning the Pardino d’Oro for Best Short Film at Locarno in 2021 with Criatura, and premiering the short film The Spiral at the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2022, María Silvia Esteve returns with a powerful story filmed over eight years that, through archival footage, home movies, and spectral animations, immerses us in the memories of an abuse that slowly emerge and endure.
After years of silence about the abortion she experienced as a teenager, Marta receives a hundred anonymous testimonies from women who have gone through the same experience. Bringing these stories to the screen, along with six girls who give a voice and a face to these silenced accounts, she creates a shared space where what was once silenced becomes collective.
After its premiere at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, we are honoured to present Marta Duran Lozano’s debut feature, a work that acts as a catharsis—for the protagonists, the testimonies, and the director. A film which is courageous and generous with its audience and that opens the doors to a taboo subject: adolescent abortion.
The screening on Friday the 8th will include a complimentary beer after the session, courtesy of Moritz.
The Wednesday 13 session will include subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Catalan (SDH).
In 2020, Hungary’s largest independent newsroom collapses under political pressure. More than 80 journalists resign together. War correspondent András Földes films the breakup from inside the newsroom as the team builds a new outlet from scratch, revealing how solidarity holds—and fractures—when independent media comes under sustained attack.
Delving into woodlands where lynxes, bears, deer, owls, capercaillies, and other river creatures roam, Munier seeks to capture not only nature’s visual splendour but also the forest’s poetic sounds. The whispers of the woods echo lessons passed from his father to him, and now to his own son, intertwining familial love with the untamed beauty of the wild.
Barbara Forever is an expansive, immersive exploration of filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s life, work, and enduring cultural impact. She reshaped cinema with a sensual, experimental, unapologetically lesbian vision rooted in connection and self-expression. With over eighty films, unreleased archives, and audio interviews, Brydie O’Connor’s portrait lets Hammer’s voice shine and extends her legacy.
Following its world premiere at Sundance 2026 and its celebrated run at the Berlinale 2026, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay Film, the film comes back to our festival after its presentation in our Public Pitch, part of DocsBarcelona Pro 2023.
🗣️ The Q&A on Sunday the 10th with the film’s director will be held with the collaboration of the team from the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival (MIFDB).
Soraya, a sixteen-year-old Afghan artist, documents using only her mobile phone, her attempts to escape from Iran over a five-year period in the hope of joining her mother in Austria. Blending personal footage, animation and sculpture, the film lays bare Soraya’s determination to carve out her own path.
Winner of the Best Film Award in the International Competition at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2025, A Fox Under a Pink Moon presents, in the first person, the difficult journey to reach Europe from Iran. Through a unique collaboration between the director, working remotely, and the protagonist and co-director Soraya, the film builds an intimate narrative in which art becomes a central element of the journey.
In contemporary China, three women turn to AI lovers to fill emotional gaps shaped by family, marriage, and independence. As their virtual relationships deepen, Replica reveals the fragile boundary between emotional freedom and reliance on AI, and explores how AI reshapes love, intimacy, and gender in modern China.
The screening on Monday the 11th will be followed by a DJ set by gavina.mp3.
