Two panel discussions will take place as part of the 25th Women’s Worlds Film Festival. The Social Impact Filming panel will focus on the question of how artistic creation and activist engagement can be linked and what responsibility filmmakers have to initiate social change. In the panel discussion on the topic #Cinema Against Forgetting – Focus on Afghanistan, three Afghan women will discuss how women and girls in Afghanistan are systematically excluded from education, work, and public life, and what external support is possible to make their rights visible and strengthen them.
Panel discussion: „Social Impact Filming“
Friday, October 31, 2025
4:45 p.m. NAWI – DEAR FUTURE ME
6:45 p.m. IMPURE
8:15 p.m. Panel discussion
on the podium:
Rico Herre, director of IMPURE
Naisula Lepariyo, social impact consultant for IMPURE
Tobias Schmutzler, director of NAWI – DEAR FUTURE ME
Moderated by Dafne Maria Fiedler, the guests will discuss the campaigns accompanying their films IMPURE and NAWI – DEAR FUTURE ME, both of which are set in Kenya and based on true stories. The panel will explore how film can be more than just a medium of entertainment and contribute to social change.
Panel discussion: “Cinema against forgetting – Focus on Afghanistan”
Saturday, November 1, 2025
4:45 p.m. WRITING HAWA
6:45 p.m. THE LAST AMBASSADOR
8:05 p.m. Panel discussion
on the podium:
Manizha Bakhtari, protagonist of the film THE LAST AMBASSADOR and Afghan ambassador to Austria
Shikiba Babori, journalist and author, founder of the KALIMA-NEWS network
Najiba Noori, director of WRITING HAWA