Women

Five elite female athletes fight for acceptance and recognition in the sport they love - that continues to exclude girls and women. This is the story of women in baseball, fighting for a "league of their...

A lonely beautician suffering from the onset of menopause is encouraged by her young client to pursue a love interest. The two women, youthful and aging, find unexpected insight in the advice of the...

Told through deeply personal stories in the trenches of the healthcare sector, “Birth Wars” chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision of childbirth should prevail. The film takes viewers on a journey into two worlds riven by prejudices and antagonism and explores how building bridges between these worlds could help save...

There is a law gap for French single women going to Belgium to get an artificial insemination with donor. No Man’s Land explores the unspoken territory of independent women making the choice of emancipation and...

Wounded by the death of her mother, Yasmine, an introverted teenager, takes refuge in silence and depression. Her aunt, who suddenly takes on the role of the new mother for her and her little sister Sonia, can’t channel her...

The empowering story of 9 Indian girls who are chosen by Karunalaya Social Service Society to represent their country at the Street Child World Cup 2018 in Moscow, Russia. The girls who all had a rough start living on the streets, where they faced abuse and violence on a daily basis, are an inspiration to everyone who meets them because of their positive and uplifting spirit. They see the event as an opportunity to share to the world their plight. They hope to become a role model for other...

Ubicada en una remota isla portuguesa, "La cabeza y la mano" es un retrato contemplativo de dos señoras con discapacidades que pasaron décadas viviendo juntas y, a pesar de los desafíos que enfrentaron, encontraron alegría en su independencia y...

Bellatrix is the name of a constellation star of Orion and means Warrior. Laura (Elisa Heidrich) begins to wonder about the political positions she has seen on TV. From there, she goes to researchers and people working the gender issue to discuss and better understand where the social differences between the sexes we observe daily. Inside her mind, Laura finds her Bellatrix...

With only a 5th grade education, Jabulile Ndaba, a tall black woman with a contagious sense of humor, never thought of herself as a manager. Now she is a leader-in-training at a women’s project near Johannesburg. The project, Kopanang, enables women to earn money through embroidery -- and enables Jabulile to learn management skills. Jabulile is the sole provider for her large family. Her husband drinks away his earnings at the local bar. When Jabulile discovers that their teenage son has...

A unique expedition composed by five indigenous women: their goal is to climb the Aconcagua. Their adventure will show an inspiring way of being a woman and relating to...

Everything is born with a riddle. A riddle with a very simple answer, but for many people the answer is not so obvious....

In a remote village nestled in the foggy hills of northern Bangladesh, Rupa fights against a predetermined destiny. With only a bike, a camera and her knowledge, she defies traditions and tries to make a place for herself in her community. When a twist of fate hits her family, Rupa’s freedom is threatened. Will she be able to maintain the fragile balance between the expectations of her loved ones and her own...

At the gates of the peace in Colombia, the young Camila, a FARC`s member, face to a painful memory of her childhood, the day in which her father tried to rape her, in an internal struggle from where she will come out...

A unique look inside the South African prison Drakenstein Correctional Center and the impressive work of Dutch boxing coach Sharita van der Hulst in the rehabilitation program for prisoners that are serving heavy...

An intimate and multi-faceted portrait of the female orgasm. Women from various ages, experiences and sexual preferences talk about their orgasms in all sincerity. Poetical, abstract and metaphorical images take us into the heart of their sensations. Speaking about orgasm, the protagonists talk about their desires, their sexuality. With sensibility, poetry and humor, the film takes us in the intimacy of women. Far away from pornography, performance’s cult or excessive erotic. The film is a...

Societies violence and judgements against women are a heavy burden that Melissa must lift everyday. But when she gets on the ring, she’s the one answering...

Narges, a public toilet cleaner, has to wait for 5 minutes to see what the result of her pregnancy test is. In this 5 minutes, she dives in her dream. The dream that makes her separate from...

Eva and Candela meet two years after their relationship ends because Eva needs something from Candela. Although they seem to have remade their lives, they still have outstanding issues between...

In a remote town where gypsies come and go, Roberta receives a call about her husband’s sudden death. She becomes consumed with the uncertainty of her...

Nimble fingers belong to the Vietnamese women who work in factories owned by some of the most popular electronic brands. Bay is one of the thousands of young migrant workers. She comes from a remote Muong village on the highlands of Northern Vietnam.Now she lives, with the other workers, in a Hanoi suburb, a district developed around one of the biggest industrial production sites in the world. These workers’ life strictly follows the rules of the great Industrial Park of Than Long. Every...

A powerful, stylized portrait of the 80 year old Dorotchka, an archetypal babushka who philosophizes about life, love, regret and...

In a hidden basement of one of the best film schools in the world, female students gather to break their silence and share their testimonies. With the promise of anonymity, a dark reality previously unspoken about starts to emerge and the real truth about being a woman in film is finally brought to...

Mariam fled her country, she is pregnant, and she is looking for a safe home for his baby. This travel led them to cross the sea in a small boat that carried only women until they arrived at the border city of Melilla. Due to the hazards along the way, women prefer to keep their stories secret. Nevertheless, Mariam has decided to tell her story to her child Treasure before giving birth in...

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower´s color in the...

Jennifer Rockwell, a profesional sports woman trained with the strictest of discipline, willpower and sacrifice, has a plan, a plan to reach the pinnacle of her career, the most difficult that you could possibly...

Iana runs a women‘s shelter and helps girls like Ionela to escape from forced prostitution. This time by risking her own...

Six Middle-Aged women are learning to live with chronic pain and the associated symptoms of Fibromyalgia (FMS), but nothing compares to living with the shame that comes with this gender specific illness. In a general context of suspicion they live misdiagnosed, overmedicated and accused of exaggerating and faking their disease, but when they meet Dr. Palop and his team of humanist doctors things start to change. Shedding light over the patriarchal structures still operating within spanish...

Veronica and Lucia have known each other since childhood, have stayed for dinner tonight. They drink, they eat, they laugh, they speak and they confess intimate secrets. But sometimes sincerity can be too dangerous a game that does not always end...

Mina (8), a Kurdish girl raised in Norway, has indirectly become a victim of the war on terror. She knows more about the situation than the adults...

There’re some pains that aches in your body and no eyes can see...

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...

Life can be complicated and hard, but the attitude of each one can change...

While Bollywood films feed the imagination of young people in India, projecting wonderful and passionate love stories, the reality for many of these young people is very different. Their parents will decide their fate with the Sagai: a ceremony, a contract in which they will commit their children to a future spouse that their children probably don’t even know and who they will marry once they reach the age of majority, or even before. Where is the love, beyond the...

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,...

Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the story of the journey madeby several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “european...

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...

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

Sophie is aiming to the surface after her fall, having to face her entourage. She's unable to trust them anymore: she knows their intentions and stays cautious because behind their nice gestures lie darker motives. (Adapted from the graphic novel by...

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...

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