Film "Woman"

In the organizer's words:

WOMAN offers the women of the world a place for their voices: emotions, dreams, hopes.

The worldwide WOMAN project offers two thousand women from fifty countries a place for their voices. The result is an intimate portrait of those who make up half of humanity. All the injustices faced by women around the world are brought to light. But what WOMAN emphasizes most is the immense strength of women. This strength and their ability to change the world for the better despite all obstacles and injustices touches, inspires and encourages. In this new era where women's voices are becoming louder and louder, the aim of the film is not just to demand rights or focus on the problems, but to finally make women's voices heard, find solutions and ensure that women are never again seen as the "weaker sex".

In WOMAN, women tell their touching, remarkable and inspiring stories, talk about motherhood, education, sexuality, marriage or financial independence and about taboo subjects such as menstruation and domestic violence. Hundreds of stories come together, from heads of state and farmers, from beauty queens and bus drivers, stories of women from the most remote regions of the world and from the most modern metropolises. WOMAN has thus succeeded in painting a comprehensive picture of what it means to be a woman in today's world. Women have never been heard like this before.

Free admission - donation requested

Start 19:00, admission from 18:30

Director's statement

"It's a movie about education because nowadays 80% of illiterate people are women. It's a movie about poverty because 80% of the poorest people are women. It's a movie about justice because in many places a woman doesn't have the same rights as a man. And then it's also a movie about love, because in today's world, we need much more kindness and less skepticism and cynicism. I believe that love can change the world." - Yann Arthus-Bertrand

"When we shot our last film "Human" in 2012-2014, we were deeply moved by the testimonies of women. Although they were often shy or suspicious before each interview, they let everything go in front of the camera. Women needed to talk, but above all they needed to be heard. This is how the idea for the movie "Woman" was born. That was almost two years before the Weinstein affair and the rise of the #MeToo movement. What struck us most was the incredible resilience of women and their ability to defy all odds. It seems like it's in their DNA, as one of them so aptly put it. With the trust that women have given us, we have been given a great responsibility. We ensure that their voices are finally heard so that women are never again seen as the "weaker sex"." - Yann Arthus-Bertrand