Women in film

Wanja was diagnosed with ALS nine years ago. While she’s busy making plans for what’s left of life, she meets someone and everything changes. It turns out that having a fatal illness doesn’t mean that life is...

Lori, a Syrian-Armenian girl living in Armenia, believes her father is taking her on a summer trip. When she learns that her family is really leaving Armenia after already fleeing the war in Syria, she tries whatever she can to stay in a place that has great meaning for...

Jeanne Clairsen, “Golden Ear” in the Navy, is called by the Commissioner Delattre in order tocatch all the sounds that may be the proof that a new victim is kept captive in the suspect'shome they put under...

Every year in Calpe which is located in the south of Spain some of the streets are closed for the week. The street area changes its normal appearance and becomes a cage. All the residents of Calpe and other towns nearby wait for this event to happen all year round. The bull arrives and hundreds of people end up in the cages. But is it really what makes the celebration of “Bous al carrer” that...

St. Agatha’s Eve is a deep-rooted Basque tradition in which people walk from house to house, accompanied by improvised verse-makers (bertsolaris), singing verses to the beating of long sticks. Building on this celebration, bertsolari Maialen Lujanbio composes a stark denunciation of gender violence. In verse after verse, she condemns the different manifestations of sexist violence and our inability to combat it. Based on these couplets, twenty young artists direct a collective-created piece,...

Rosa tries to recall her mother by cooking the pestiños recipe she always prepared, with no success. She has invited her sisters, Beatriz and Isabel, to help her, even though they don’t speak to each other. Neither one knows that the other one is going to be there, and they can’t imagine how much Rosa wants to eat those pestiños...

Carles travels by car with his teenage son, Pol. An unexpected incident will change the course of their...

Victoria and Paula speak to a wedding on the outskirt of Bogotá. A pending conversation will make them unleash feelings they believed...

After the death of two of her classmates, Julia is incapable of feeling any sort of sadness. Chocked by the suffocating mourning, and by a deep resentment, she will write something that will have dire...

A documentary that approaches polyamory from the intimate point of view of an Afro-American family who decided to live an authentic life without denying the option of diversity in their love and...

Love in Porn is an insider's look into the romantic lifes of those that succeed in the world of adult...

Creative proccess of the actress Blanca Portillo to prepare the perform as María of Nathareth in the theatre play " María´s...

A businessman experiences a therapeutic catharsis while attending aSpanish lesson on...

Ex-miner Les Moore cannot let go of the past. The bitter defeat of the Miners’ Strike 30 years ago hangs over his life and the bleak landscape of a village in the North of England. Beneath his feet the mine struggles on but employs only a few local men. Fearful that their struggle will be forgotten, that their voices won’t be heard, Les joins the fight to preserve the legacy of the mine and calls for the chance of a decent life for his sons in a hurt and forgotten...

Sexual harassment is a growing problem in Egypt, especially in Cairo. Through a series of interviews and social experiments, The People’s Girls takes a closer look at who is to blame, as well as how women are fighting...

Hava’s brothers decide to divide their paternal property. According to traditional customs, the right to inheritance belongs to male descendants only whereas Hava has no right to inherit. The eldest brother is obligated to find a husband for his sister. Hava must be married and live at her husband’s...

Ainoha and Yon meet in a deserted beach. Both have paused their lives and have escaped to an island far from everything they know. A film like love will grew between them with its own introduction, core and denouement; a summer love they do not want to forget once autumn comes and they return home by their own. To keep the memories of their story alive, Ainhoa and Yon decide to send each other a postcard for a whole year in order to find out if what they have felt in the island lasts or...

The story of Raymond, a American lawyer that runs from justice way to Mexico, through a narco-tunel, and who is forced to face his worst fears when he realise that he can´t escape from...

A man tries to leave his mistress, only to find that he's wrapped around her magical little...

Aida; the oldest flower vendor in Alexandria has been roaming the city streets for the past 50 years. Aida is a familiar face for the city residents, yet they don't know much about her, a face that holds within a long history of untold...

The Brazilian girls' football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams...

A stopover in Madrid. A pending...

Laura starts a playful game with her husband Charlie. He has to resist the temptation of making love to an actress played by her. But Laura's playfulness masks a deeper motivation: a test of her husband's fidelity. Who will...

Those deprived of freedom are classified into being first, second or third degree. There are people who spend all their free time, for nothing material in exchange, visiting and helping prisoners return to freedom, return to the society they belong...

It's a starry night when Oscar sees from his window... a little goldfish jumping on a dirty puddle! Two cats are watching from the shadows. Oscar will help the goldfish through a rampant adventure in a nighty Latin American, with the lack os water as a...

Naomi Ducuara Bucurú, is an indigenous woman in southern Tolima, displaced by the armed conflict in Colombia. Like her, dozens of indigenous men and women victims of violence come to big cities to establish in suburbian areas, until they become invisible. This is how the Cutumay Rio de Oro community is born in the Martinica village of Ibagué, formed by others displaced indigenous who fight for a place in the city where they can recreate their customs and practices permanently so the...

Wayward is a teen drama, about exploring and challenging boundaries in search for identity. Alex's identity as a tomboy is challenged from within and by her peers. She is 14 years old and her body is undergoing changes, yet she continues to insist on the tomboy...

Two strangers cross their paths one evening in Hong Kong. A woman intrigued by a man, she follows him around the streets of the city throughout a night and eventually tempts him into a single conversation that would refine his life’s next decision. Untitled Night is a simple and poetic story about re-discovering where you are and where you...

Every day, from 6month-babies to 80 years-elders, come together to receive swimming lessons o to simply enjoy of the benefits of being in the water. But this space, the gathering and the swimming lessons are only the means to allow us to get access to people´s culture, latent in the thought of the bathers. Isn´t the swimming pool the ideal space for the mind to unburden itself, once the body is domesticated by the repetition of kicks and strokes, and to travel unbridled between past, present...

Nina is only seventeen. On her last day of her trip in Berlin she falls in love with a street musician. Coming back home, where she has stable relationship, she needs to deal with what happened in Berlin. Her first reaction is extreme self-judgment. Finding the way back to self-acceptance is preceded by one long day and many tears...

A couple's anniversary dinner takes an unexpected turn when a series revelations derail their happy...

In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Pájaro Azul Foundation, represented by Mama Adèle, trains a group of women who live surrounded by poverty, misery and misfortunes, but who do not lack in intelligence, spirit and the will to fight their way out of that...

A bride calls her best friend so scared few hours before her...

This is animated story about primal desires, which are present in the human...

Roberto is a “calesitero” - a merry-go-round owner. Every day he starts a machine that rotates, defining the movement of the children on its platform, but at the same time inviting them to fly with their imagination. The merry-go-round integrates the lives of many generations of parents and grandparents who have seen their children grow and...

Weekend Warrior explores the passion of a man who transforms from an average council employee to the Earl of Galloway, a 12th century warrior. The protagonist moves from taking dull chores to leading his troops to the battle, guide them and keep all his men alive. This is a film about time travelling and question what is normality, framed in a society where oddity is often penalised. As we live turning our back on fantasy, embracing rational existence, this is a film about reconnection with the...

In a little village in the heart of Serbia Mirko takes care of the old and small Serbian Orthodox church of the community. Every day he opens the church and with strong dedication prepares all details for the service that the priest will give. When everything is ready, Mirko rings the bells. Only an old and devoted woman enters the church: she is the only person attending the service. But one day not even the old lady...

MAMIS is the story of four women who are tired of being treated as second-class citizens. It is a story about two generations of Cuban mothers who have decided to live their lives how they want to, despite the prejudices of the society. It is about personal rebellion, but also of...

For Oscar, the days go by with a coffee, a short black, a tea… Until one rainy night he sees a girl through the window. All he thinks is: “come in”. And she comes...

The four lovable and sweet main characters of Creamen capture our hearts as they gradually have to confront an unexpected challenge to their very...