City Cinema & Curiosity and Co. Present: Women & the Wind

Documentary. PG partial nudity, brief coarse language.
Dir: Alizé Jireh, US. 2025, 90 min.
Lærke Heilmann, Alizé Jireh, Kiana Weltzien.

“Women & the Wind is a thought-provoking voyage of discovery as three women sail from North America to Europe in 30 days, following plastic pollution on a renovated catamaran. It’s a story of adventure and reconnecting with nature. The three women are Alizé Jireh, director and cinematographer, Kiana Weltzien, captain and frequent solo sailor, and Lærke Heilmann, first mate and ocean conservationist… It’s a sharp, poignant and well edited account of their perspective on life, each other, and nature – and it might just be one of my favourite films of the year… It’s all captured by Jireh’s phenomenal cinematography… What the film does most brilliantly is balance the heaviest of subjects with the charm, laughter and love shared by these women. Each tells her story, and we learn what drives them… Exploring the subjects of life and our relationship with nature, it could easily stray into the pretentious, instead it tells a story of reflection, how it feels to be so far from land, what life means to them with total disconnection. Remaining poignant, poetic, and honest.” —Oliver Hackett-Watson, Filmbuffer