Girls Don't Cry

Local title
Tüdrukud ei nuta
Original title
Mädchen weinen nicht
Director
Sigrid Klausmann
Country
Germany
Year
2025
Festival
25th Youth and Children's Film Festival
Programme
Doc@Just
Genre
Biographical, Youth film
Subject
LGBTQ, pregnancy, women, human rights, youth

Six girls, six countries, one fight for the right to decide for themselves.

What does it mean to be a girl in the world today? How do they fare in a restrictive world? The documentary “Girls Don’t Cry” is about the longing of six girls from six countries, longing for a self-determined life in freedom, their desire to fall in love, without paternalism, without others having power over their bodies, with equal rights. We see Nancy, Sheelan, Selenna, Nina, Paige and Sinai deal with the crisis of puberty, their self-confident decisions in difficult situations, their courageous fight against brutal traditions such as circumcision, against social constraints and pressure, against beauty mania and prejudice. Being young and cool, even in the face of trauma and loss.

Director
Sigrid Klausmann
Screenwriter
Sigrid Klausmann
Cast
Nina Aklapi, Sheelan Alomar, Paige Jordan, Sinai Oh, Selenna Pérez, Nancy Julias Sureli
Producer
Walter Sittler, Sigrid Klausmann
Cinematographer
Thorsten Harms, Lina Lužytė, Justyna Feicht, Gabriel Allende
Production Design
none
Editing
Gregory Schuchmann
Music
Lea Sittler
Sound
Andreas Mühlschlgel
Production
Schneegans Productions GbR
Distribution
Farbfilm Verleih, Berlin
Music
Lea Sittler, Extreme Music
Sound
sono2, Stuttgart
Editing
Gregory Schuchmann
Runtime
Language
German, Spanish, English, Serbian, Swahili, Korean
Subtitles
English
Director
Sigrid Klausmann

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Screenings

7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening010712 / Tüdrukud ei nuta
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening040813 / Tüdrukud ei nuta
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
7th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening160712 / Tüdrukud ei nuta
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer