Women

A young woman deals with the strange disappearance of her traveling companions ... on a freeway rest...

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...

The amazing story of how Benidorm became a major tourist resort thanks to Pedro Zaragoza, the legendary mayor with a Vespa. This unique man was able to create a modern city out of nothing, turn it into a leisure playground for the middle class, and then pitch it from London to Lapland with marketing strategies that still seem incredible even today. Did it all really...

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...

Version built for the actress Rosa Novell a macabre tale of the brothers Grimm, like all stories, appeals to our collective...

A young woman struggles to set herself free from the mental and physical harm of an abusive...

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...

One night, three friends, untold...

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...

After a mysterious synaptic connection beyond scientific explanation, two women, Clara and Gio establish a dreamlike relationship that leads them to share their deepest dreams and hidden desires during a coma. Two strangers who have never met in reality are finally given the opportunity that they, subconsciously, have always craved: to love another woman. A journey through their extraordinary dates, scattered throughout the dream world, will end in one final and significant encounter, where the...

Four friends meet to walk their dogs together everyday on London’s Hampstead Heath. They reveal their hopes, dreams and fears in some unusual ways. They are all looking for love but perhaps the perfect man does not exist.... or maybe he goes running on the...

Najat Aziz is part of the very limited 15% of women who are economically active population in rural areas of Morocco. She has crossed the threshold of her house, has gone out to work to generate resources and streamline her environment. Her daily struggle for autonomy is an act of self-empowerment within a traditional Islamic Society that predominantly confines women roles and activities to the domestic sphere. Najat and other women are facing with dignity, effort and the collaboration of...

Silvana arrives to the south of Chile in search of her father. As the hours goes by her anxiety increases waiting his arrival. Meanwhile, she spends the time fantasizing about the encounter discovering the impressive place and its people. With their help, details are unveiled about this person that remains unknown to...

Carolina and her older sister get home after one too many at the former's hen party. Susana, a forty-year-old married woman with two kids, has an announcement to make. She's leaving the country with another...

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...

Natalia Nikolaevna lives 400 km from Havana, in the city where the first nuclear power plant would be built in Cuba. She arrived 20 years ago from the USSR, to be reunited with her husband and work as an opera singer. In 1992, the great crisis, known as the Special Period, began. Natalia get divorced and rooted in the place where she gradually discovered as the most hostile of...

Om Amira, a resident living on one of DownTown’s Roof tops, Having no other option but to toughen up to support her family, also known as the “Potatoes Lady” sells homemade fried potatoes sándwiches, starting at night until the sun lights in the streets of the city that never...

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...

The Greers grew up as a 3-woman unit. This mother-daughter team was nicknamed “The Greer Girls.” When Marilyn is diagnosed with dementia at age 58, her daughters refocused their lives to care for her during her most precious years. As Marilyn’s disease progresses, the girls struggle to care for a woman who is less and less like their mother. Together, they navigate the unknown while balancing their personal lives until they are forced to make a heartbreaking...

It's a story about a mother and her three daughters on the day they find out that their father has died unexpectedly. Still stunned by the sad news, they spend the next few hours in a bar next to the father's house laughing, crying and looking back in...

Emilia is an old woman who lives alone, isolated and wasting her days away. Everything changes when Miguel, a physiotherapist, appears in her...

In a world where zombies are part of everyday life, “Muertas de asco” tells the story of two sisters separated by a tragic accident. After their transformation they will only achieve peace in their reunion. His father, absorbed in an imaginary world, will not stop waiting for his...

On April 18th, 1987, Catherine Russell first stepped on stage to perform the role of Margaret Thorne Brent in the play, Perfect Crime. Twenty-five years and only four missed performances later, she resides in The Guinness Book of World Records for the most performances by an actor in a single part. Russell estimates that two and a half years of her life have been spent on stage playing this...

Julia´s life takes place in the bath tub. Drop by drop she will gather the courage to change the order of...

The life story of an old lady from La Huasteca in the Cave of the Swallows. After admiring the natural spectacle of the birds, Doña Concepción tells how she grew up, what life was like when she was young, how much the people have changed and how she seeks them out today to move forward with the girl she grew...

Take Care offers a glimpse into the life of Virginia Gandee, a 22-year-old woman who lives in Staten Island, New York. At first glance one is struck by Virgina's bold appearance; her bright red hair and the dozen tattoos that canvas her body. When she was 15, Gin left home to marry a 20-year-old she met online. Two years later, she was a teenage mother. Today, Gin is raising her daughter as a single mother and pursuing her dream to become a nurse. Inside her family's trailer, her caregiving...

Three men talking to three women we never see, three men arguing, three men claiming no one understands them.“Frozen souls” is a deep insight in the every day life of three isolated characters, a quick glance into the drama hidden behind the anonymous faces we see on the streets any given...

In 1994, in the East African nation of Rwanda, one million ethnic Tutsi people were slaughtered, in a genocide committed by their Hutu countrymen. But the scars left by these murderous militiamen go well beyond the numbers of the dead: they live on, in the lives of the women they held captive, raped - and left...

Two weeks. That's what it's asked the star of "Libra". Two weeks can change her...

A young woman obsessed with her image takes a journey into the labyrinth of her own perception, turning her body into a prison for the world to see and living the self-destructive dream of becoming what she is...

Dolores is a housewife. The buildings around her, her house and her own family represent the feelings of imprisonment, disenchantment,and loneliness which are eating her...