In the city of Xalapa, twenty-year-old Pedro helps Julio (his best friend), get Paulina ( his other best friend) drunk, so he can later rape her in her sleep. After witnessing the act, he regrets it and confronts Julio. Who asks him to keep it to himself, because it would end the already shaky friendship between the three; Despite this, Pedro confesses to Paulina knowing that it will be the last time they speak.
Three objects are used in a manner in which they weren't supposed to be. Something unprecedented happens: armed with a voice and conscience, these objects will reflect on the absurd arguments that support domestic violence.
A psychological thriller about a mysterious rug threatening to tear a superstitious family apart.
The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with very low pay. As she has to support her family (mother and daughter), she has no money for herself for better makeup or dress up. She has low esteem. She later was fired by the boss. Because of no money and no home, she goes to the massage parlor and works there a sex worker. It happens that the first customer is the chef of previous restaurant. She has admired him for a while. In this first sex exchange, she is well satisfied both emotionally as well as economically. She starts sex work this way and becomes more confident.
Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively believing herself to be the Joan of Arc who will save her country from occupation.
Madi is a junior doctor who desperately needs a break. Her partner, Dana, takes her on a getaway with her friend group. Will Madi finally get the Low Stress Day she desires?
Josephine Nilsson dies trying to terminate her second pregnancy after giving up for adoption her first child, Carl T. Dreyer. A gender and class story about the clandestinity of female desire.
The story of two young women who go to the city to work in a dress factory, and who share a room to ease their expenses and their loneliness. The film shows the currents that brought them together and the facets of their natures that first made them seem compatible but eventually drove them apart. Their story reflects, to a degree, the situation of anyone who has ever shared the life of another.
Mina is a 30-year-old prostitute whose vagina suddenly disappears. Locked in her apartment, she records a video telling us about her life and her plans for revenge against those who attacked Escarlet, one of her loved ones. Despite this new bodily discomfort she feels, Mina will try to avenge Escarlet and put an end to the nightmare she is trapped in, where virtuality, isolation, and loneliness threaten to take over everything.
La Femme
Guadalupe, a 25-year-old young artist, delves into a disturbing day as the figure of her own shadow stalks her, leading her internal struggle to a final confrontation that leaves indelible marks.
Wanting a better life for herself and her child, Amani decides to flee Lebanon. Her journey unravels impossible choices and sacrifices only a Mother can make.
A young actor plays a rude, obnoxious, know-it-all in a film who, after losing her job, sets out to 'teach the world a lesson.'
In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.
An experimental essay film reflecting on love, temporality, memory, absence, and living with HIV.
After Maribel Cruz Mejía's death, all that remains is a recording. Through it, a woman tries to preserve the memory of the greatest love of her life and of the person she once was.
A woman takes time in private on a tiny island in Helsinki to contemplate a loss that has caused sudden changes in her life. This tragedy has challenged her to see the world in a different light. A light that is driven by a force of nature.
When war erupts in Ukraine, three women from different worlds collide at the Romanian border: an Italian woman searching for her missing husband and unborn child, a Romanian mother fighting to save her daughter, and a young Ukrainian surrogate forced to choose between survival and motherhood. Blending documentary reality with fiction, the film explores resilience, sacrifice, and the fragile bonds that emerge in times of conflict.
An empathic, young plant doctor gifted with extrasensory powers and an emotionally fragile, isolated artist, must rescue each other to rediscover the essence of living. A coming of age story about two women from different generations, who have more in common than they are willing to admit.
A woman receives a phone call regarding her fertility results before a night out.