Women

MÚSICAS is a short documentary that follows Leticia Gallardo, the visionary director of Viento Florido, an all-women Indigenous band hailing from the mountainous region of Tlahuitoltepec. The film captures the profound connection between the women, their music, and the landscapes that inspire...

Vilma, a young nurse dreams of a better place to raise her upcoming baby, along with her disabled husband Ivan. She tries to change their reality using her nursing skills and competing as a shooter, but nothing seems to work in their stuck society. Until, a tornado sweeps her away and she wakes up in a place where it seems her dream will come true. But appearances can be deceiving, and she will have to find determination to return to her life and...

In between prejudiced gazes, Margarita, a free spirited woman and salsa music lover, walks away from her marriage searching for her own identity. At night Margarita finds refuge in a seashore kiosk, where improvised salsa parties take place. Her path crosses with Liana’s, a deaf tourist who arrives at the peak of the party. Seeing in Liana a world foreign to her own, Margarita finds the perfect company to explore her true being, and decides to teach Liana how to dance, understanding her...

Marina, a young actress from Andalusia, discovers that her grandmother's Alzheimer's is already very advanced during a visit to her Catalan family. The situation worsens when she sees how lightly her mother and the rest of the family take the disease. Between the post-lunch coffee and Grandma's return to the residence, Marina will have to decide what role she plays within her estranged family and how close she wants her relationship with her mother to...

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected. Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on his weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for...

Since the outbreak of the war in Syria there are women refugees who have spent years working as day laborers in the Bekaa Valley under exploitative conditions. Her newborn daughters upon entering Lebanon also work in the fields to this day. Their future it's uncertain. They cannot prosper in Lebanon because it does not recognize them as nationals, nor their refugee status or protect their basic rights. They cannot return to Syria while there is war. "Aamelat. Day Laborers of War" exposes...

Malena, a survivor of domestic violence, fled to Mexico City to rebuild her life after losing custody of her children despite her fierce fight. Now with a new partner, she aspires to create the family she always dreamt of, despite challenges such as IVF treatment, societal judgment, and the resentment from her teenage children who feel abandoned. While patriarchal norms may seem daunting, her determination for a brighter future is stronger than...

Seven women, three generations, one family and countless secrets and lies. Meet Canada’s Gayest...

In a small public hospital, a midwifery led by midwives accompanies births with a humanised model: putting women at the centre and respecting their rights. "Birth" is a realistic portrait of childbirth, and a choral account of obstetric violence and its terrible consequences told by: its victims, the UN (United Nations) and the WHO (World Health...

In the late nineteenth century, Cileta and her family fall prey to Oleguer, a petty usurer, who, stripping them of their land, takes mastery over their lives. When he leaves the farm to marry the widow of a wealthy ex-notary, Cileta ponders her next steps – to infiltrate their house and apply the lesson learned: money above all...

Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and Harry Potter. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against...

The fortuitous meeting of three women in a hospital waiting room will mark their lives forever. They don't know each other and neither can believe what is about to...

Tula is the cleaning lady at a private school for girls. During her workday, she meets the headteacher's fourteen-year-old daughter in the toilet. The girl is going to tell Tula her secret. Tula will have to decide whether to help her or...

Three women of different generations live with an eating disorder. Three dark and hopeful realities marked by a childhood trauma that they will try to face in order to come back to...

Celia is 44 years old and she doesn't want to celebrate it to avoid thinking about what it means to have reached that age without a partner or children. She has invited her friends to dinner at her house, but she has told them that it is not a birthday party, but a Christmas dinner where she will offer them her famous eggnog for dessert, a recipe she learned when she lived in New York. The friends don't keep the deal and show up for the date with a strange birthday gift that will provoke a...

Menstruation remains a cultural stigma in Africa. In countries like Chad, during the period, women are prohibited from cooking and in rural areas, girls cannot go to school during those...

A visual symphony conducted by 8 elder women  who reflect on different topics concerning the conception of their own bodies inside a patriarchal system that constantly attempts to posses them. In between documentary and video arte, [B]ELLAS successfully breaks the stereotype that conceives ageing women as vulnerable, dependent and pleasing beings through a vindication of their experience, bodies, capacities, wrinkles and...

Chica Latina is a documentary that narrates the way of life of Alba Prieto. Alba is a 32-year-old woman who, despite her particular physique, works as a stripper and cheerleader at bachelor parties . She lives in El Palo, a popular and working class neighborhood of Málaga (Spain). Her origins are humble and comes from a broken family. Her mother abandoned her when she was 12 years old and her father barely took care of her. From the age of 16, Alba had to look for her own life doing various...

Farming fish in the desert is all about withstanding high temperatures and constant sandstorms. It's about adapting to a new and very different...

A bittersweet family dynamic and a strong sense all resilience mix into this thoughtful portrait of the most famous pastry shop in...

Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. This film documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern...

Guided by idealism and family tradition, Laura joins a squad of riot police, in her first outings she already notices her taste for adrenaline; but a big mistake exposes the corruption atmosphere of the institution, putting at risk her services and her...

Three women meet every Thursday for a morning walk before going to work. It is the occasion to tell each other what worries and happens to them. Despite their differences and disagreements, there is something that unites these protagonists: the age and the burden they feel knowing they are halfway through their lifes. They are united by the sad sensation, that the passing of the years has displaced them in a space where they feel out of place and almost...

This story examines how hundreds of women in El Salvador and four other countries end up getting imprisoned following an abortion. Maria Teresa managed to escape this nightmare; after nearly a decade of social and legal persecution, she fled to Sweden to become the first woman ever to get international protection for this...

A ballerina not very popular at her class practices dance exercises while imagining an idyllic world where she is happy dancing and floating through fantasies about love, movement and...

As every day at eight in the afternoon the mall closes its doors. With the tranquility of the night the dummies wake up from their daily lethargy and live their own lives. The perfect couple, the happy couple of the Home Section does not go through its best moment...

When a filmmaker is accused of sexual misconduct, he decides to make a documentary to condemn the senselessness of the new wave of feminism. However, as he tries to expose the arguments of those who defend it, he realizes that he has been on the wrong side of the...

Estíbaliz accepted her high-school friend Raquel's invitation to attend her village's festivities. What initially seems like a fun and exciting weekend turns nightmarish as Estíbaliz finds out these festivities involve the village men dressing up as wolves and hunting the women during the night. And what's even more terrifyng: nobody else seems to be alarmed or upset by this horrofic and twisted...

Clara and Luis have an argument. It's not the first and it's always over the same issue. Clara's job interferes with Luis' desire to have a...

In a summer mansion in the Costa Brava, a young domestic worker has to serve two rich kids while they enjoy their summer. Amongst cocktails, drugs and dishwashers, she will look for her own way of having...

Paloma Pujol, tired of being the only freestyler woman in Spain, challenges herself to open the female category in the Spanish Football Freestyle Championship, but she needs at least four more girls to achieve her...

Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of...

Four women's lives changed after the war in Syria. Strangers whose paths crossed in the midst of a dire situation: one marked by violence, neglect and death. They now live in Lebanon and Jordan, where together they are rebuilding their own...

After decades of oblivion, the life of Lélo Fiaux, a 20th century Swiss painter whose life and painting are definitively inseparable, will finally be brought to light in a film. A fiery personality, nomadic throughout the world, she lived without concession her passion for painting and her freedom in love. Fictional scenes punctuate the story, allowing us to grasp all the facets of this extraordinary...

Hearing that her teenage sister is planning to commit suicide, Toranj is in limbo not knowing how to...

Zahra is a middle-aged woman who visits a temporary marriage agency and signs up to have a young working girl. She picks her up to take her home but the girl (Negar) who has never had a female client before, becomes suspicious of Zahra’s intent and sexual...

A woman puts on her running shoes at the age of 28 and by the age of 30 becomes one of the first women to run a marathon in Europe while wearing a hijab and the first covered European to compete at the IronMan triathlon. Her name is Nudžejma which means Little Star in Arabic. Little Star Rising follows one woman's journey of overcoming social and political barriers by the sheer will to own her own life and choices. It is a compelling story about the power of inspiration, drive and will to...

Yeses portrays the life of a theater company formed by women in prison. Thirty years ago, in Madrid women's prison known as “Yeserías”, a prison officer called Elena Cánovas was encouraged to bring the theater to prison, creating a company with the inmates. “Teatro Yeses" was...

In 1998, Zoilamerica accused her adoptive father of rape and sexual abuse. Almost 20 years later, she lives in exile while caring for her 10-year-old son. Her adoptive father is Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista revolution and current president of...

Rare, medium rare, medium, medium well and well done. Through intimate and personal stories, five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old...