A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
An old woman from Mong Htet, in northern Shan State in Myanmar, looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her …
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
Elena works as an erotic photographer, Luz and Nerea as prostitutes. They met at a photo shoot and Elena wanted to know…
Daughter and mother arrive at a Buddhist monastery in a land very far from their own. Both are victims of a complicated…
Filmmaker Aljona Surzikova films the arrival of her new baby in the privacy of her family. But the joyful atmosphere is…
How artistic and feminine can the world of pipe making be? Famous for making these historically masculine objects, Anne…
Due to an autoimmune disease, Julika has lived without hair since the age of 9. Now, at 25, we experience with her what…
A comfortable sofa, nail polish and strange gloves. You are about to witness a conversation as fleeting as it is reveal…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
A theater group composed of peasant women from rural Turkey embarks on a journey to a remote town in the mountains of t…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
Bhanu and Bhuntu, two young Indian women leave their villages to live and work in a suburban textile center. Through th…
In this documentary filmed inside a motel in Santiago, Chile, the women who do room service have a lot to say about lov…
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