NO MERCY / БЕЗ МИЛОСЕРДЯ

2025 / 105' / documentary / Germany, Austria

A radical cinematic manifesto through the voices of the fiercest women in filmmaking – unflinching, unapologetic, and with no mercy. 

In No Mercy, Isa Willinger will explore the thesis that it is actually women who make the tougher films. Cult director Kira Muratova shared this idea with Willinger in an interview a few years ago, and it has stuck with her ever since. Now, with No Mercy, Isa Willinger will embark on a journey to the great female directors of our time and raise the question whether the female gaze in film is indeed more ruthless. Last but not least, No Mercy will also look at where we truly stand today in terms of women, men, and power.

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Screenings schedule:

October 2, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Kinoman Hall

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DIRECTOR - ISA WILLINGER

Biography

Isa Willinger studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her debut feature film, Hi, AI was nominated for the German Film Award for best documentary in 2019 and won the Max Ophüls Award in the same category. In 2020, Isa was awarded the SI STAR film prize for outstanding female directors for Hi, AI.

Isa's other films include the international award-winning documentary Away From All Suns (2013, HFF/BR/ARTE), which received the Starter Film Prize of the City of Munich, among others; and the TV documentary Music And Power (2018, WDR/ARTE), for which she was awarded the Václav Havel Prize.

Selected filmography

• 2024: Plastic Fantastic

• 2019: Hi, AI

• 2018: Music And Power

• 2013: Away From All Suns

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Producer: Alex Tondowski, Sabine Gruber, Peter Drössler

Screenwriter: Isa Willinger

Cinematography: Bernadette Paaßen, Siri Klug, Doro Götz

Composer: Brii Bauer, Jeschka Oszilat

Main characters: Céline Sciamma, Ana Lily Amirpour, Nina Menkes, Virginie Despentes, Monika Treut, Joey Soloway, Apolline Traoré, Alice Diop, Catherine Breillat, Mouly Surya

Production: Dangerous Company

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