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...

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...

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...

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

The documentary explores the issues women face when pregnant, the lack of resources makes that many of them reach birth with no medical monitoring at all along the process. Then at the hospital, those who cannot pay a private doctor, have to bribe the doctors and nurses in order to get a proffesional service. Romania is one of the poorest countries in EU which barely supports pregnant...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Karishma is the co-founder of the Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League, a female soccer championship that takes place every year in the astonishing Karakoram Mountain Range, a remote and rugged area located in the North of Pakistan. Through soccer, Karishma and her sister, studied and gained freedom. But freedom always has a...