International Documentary Film Festival
April 19 to 26, 2026
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

The Visual Feminist Manifesto (مانيفستو)

Farida Baqi

The Visual Feminist Manifesto

Like all things in the vastness of the universe, women are a creation. But what does it mean and feel like to be a woman – when understood from a woman’s experience and perspective? We follow the journey of a woman in different stages, from her creation, over her childhood, adolescence and into her early adulthood. We experience how she is shaped and defined by the changes in her mind and in her body, and as well by how her surroundings in words and deeds, exactly like a mold, are shaping or trying to shape her. It is a journey of hope, aspiration, and struggle to find one’s own dignity, purpose, and joy in becoming a person in full – that is: a woman true to herself, with agency, and with strong solidarity towards other women – her sisters in life.

Syria, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden 2025, '74

DIRECTOR: Farida Baqi

SCENARIO: Farida Baqi

CAMERA: Janne Ebel

MONTAGE: Anne Kristine Kliem

MUSIC: Mad Kate | the Tide, HYENAZ, Nareg Abajian

PRODUCERS: Sadiq al-Shamali, Farida Baqi

PRODUCTION: Estayqazat

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

IFF Rotterdam(2025): Youth Jury Award
Nuremberg International Human Rights FF
Ji.hlava 
IFFF of India
REC Tarragona IFF

Farida Baqi

Farida Baqi

Farida Baqi is a director born in Damascus. She is the director of The Visual Feminist Manifesto, which premiered at IFFR 2025 and won the Youth Jury Award. She is the executive producer together with Sadiq al Shamali of the short doc-fiction Salam (2017), which won Best International Short Film at Fribourg International Film Festival as well as Suleima (2014), a short animation film shortlisted at Annecy Film Festival among others.

 

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