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Community screenings

The documentary is still open for community screening events through Kinema - find a screening near you or host your own!

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Festival & Cinema Screenings

OCTOBER 26

Cape Town Adventure Film Festival
Cape Town, South Africa

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NOVEMBER 1

Festival Internacional de Cine de Ensenada
Ensenada, Argentina

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NOVEMBER 22

La Rochelle International Adventure Film and Book Festival
La Rochelle, France

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Surf Film Nacht

We’re excited to announce that we will be part of SURF FILM NACHT, a traveling German film festival with multiple screenings taking place from August to October 2025.

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Hosting a screening of Women & the Wind is a unique opportunity to bring your community together and foster meaningful conversations about the themes explored in the film.

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LOGLINE - Three women ignite the flames of curiosity and adventure which lay dormant within so many of us, by deepening our understanding of the synergy between nature and humanity—and by doing so radically, through a voyage across the North Atlantic.

team

composer

Mia Garcia

music editor and additional compositions

Sebastian Sack

color-grading

Tim Wreyford

sound mixing

Jordan Power

sound designer

Luke Mathers

graphics

Lærke Heilmann

Waldo Lara

Caney Studio

Production

Women & the Wind

Director of Photography

Alizé Jireh

directors

Alizé Jireh

Kiana Weltzien

Lærke Heilmann

Producers

Angie Richard

Alizé Jireh

Lærke Heilmann

Kiana Weltzien

Editor

Eileen Vera

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plastic pollution

Motivated by Kiana’s first North Atlantic crossing in 2019, where she witnessed a plastic-littered ocean, Mara Noka and Kiana, joined by filmmaker Alizé Jireh and environmentalist Lærke Heilmann, set off across the North Atlantic again in 2022 to follow plastic pollution on its ride to Europe via the Gulf Stream. Throughout the entirety of the voyage, larger floating debris including fishing nets, buckets, bottles, plastic bags, and nylon ropes were constant companions. 

Though the initial intention of the film was to focus mainly on telling this story of plastic, the voyage took on a much more personal tone as the days progressed. The women were then faced with the reality of life at sea aboard a boat, for 30 days, with no space from each other or themselves. Calms and tempests reflected their own inner workings, and an entire moon’s cycle on the ocean brought their femininity to the forefront. They experienced their fragility and their strengths with an intensity that is unmatched, transforming this film into an intimate portrayal of woman and nature.


impact

A very special and honorable thanks to all of our Kickstarter and patreon donors, without you our voyage would have remained just a voyage.