“Girls Don’t Cry” is about six girls from six countries, longing for a self-determined life in freedom, their desire to fall in love, having power over their bodies, with equal rights.
We see Nancy, Sheelan, Selenna, Nina, Paige and Sinai deal with puberty, their decisions in difficult situations, their courageous fight against brutal traditions such as circumcision, against social constraints, against beauty mania and prejudice. Being young and cool, even in the face of trauma and loss.
Germany, 2025, 90 min, Germany, English, German, Korean, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Kurmandschi with English and Bulgarian subtitles
Director: Sigrid Klausmann, Lina Luzyte
Scriptwriter: Sigrid Klausmann
DOP: Thorsten Harms, Lina Luzyte, Justyna Feicht, Diego Alliende
Music: Lea-Marie Sittler
Production: Schneegans Productions GbR
Director’s Biography:
Sigrid Klausmann, born in Furtwangen in the Black Forest, grew up as the third of seven children. Her childhood, she says, has been the cornerstone for her activities as an adult and her great interest for art and children. At first, she worked as a sport teacher, she was a dancer and modern dance teacher and choreographed and staged several full-length plays with young people. She has received the cultural prize of the town of Ludwigsburg, has been working since 2003 as a documentary film maker and founded jointly with her husband Walter Sittler Schneegans Productions. Most themes of her films are the affairs of adolescence.