Since 2001 TERRE DES FEMMES has been organizing the film festival Women’s Worlds anually. The festival focuses on the state of human rights of women worldwide.

Originally founded in Tübingen, the festival has been taking place in Berlin since 2020, where the head office of TERRE DES FEMMES is located.


Every year the festival includes more than 30 current short, feature and documentary films from more than 20 countries. They all focus on women’s rights in different cultures and open up new perspectives to approximately 4,000 spectators. The festival is accompanied by activities like discussion rounds, exhibitions and workshops.

In contrast to other women’s film festivals that exclusively show films by female filmmakers, Women’s Worlds is a thematic festival on human rights for women. Thus, films by women as well as by wen are shown. 

Numerous filmmakers, human rights activists and TERRE DES FEMMES experts are invited to take part in audience and panel discussions after the screenings. This way, the topic of “human rights for women” is further anchored in international filmmaking. 

Every year, renowned filmmakers and people working in the field of human rights and women’s rights are invited as guests. In recent years the festival has had the honor of hosting guests such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee from Liberia, the Nobel Prize nominated lawyer and president of the Supreme Court of Ethiopia Meaza Ashenafi, Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and actress Nina Hoss.