Five women built a revolution with no papers and zero chill.
Five women, members of the Sans Papiers, talk about the history and reasons for founding the organisation, as well as their most important demands, like getting permits of residence for refugee women so they don't depend on their husbands' status.
Direction
Collective authorship centers voices, not spectacle.
Writing
Oral history as radical political document.
Director
FrauenLesbenFilmCollectif Las Otras Berlin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Sans Papiers movement began with 300 Africans occupying a Paris church in 1996, sparking copycat occupations across Europe.
The film's herstory framing was deliberate—documenting specifically women's roles in a movement often remembered through male leadership.
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