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A rural school bus driver turns to theft but is held accountable for his actions.

A boy numbs his grief over the loss of someone he held dear in the endless flickering of screens. In doing so, he not only hurts himself, but slowly kills his very soul, which absorbs his emotions and experiences each day.

Les Nocturnes

A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.

Drawn by a strange ringing, a weary writer slips out of her life to follow it through the city, encountering strangers whose fleeting, intimate moments stir something lost in her. Phantasma reflects on the cards we’re given and what we choose to do with them.

Tobakkens uheldige virkninger

A young woman cannot escape the daily exploits of lustful patrons.

A solitary young woman living with her dog becomes the target of neighbourhood slander. Her sudden suicide—and the earlier discovery of a dead foetus—fuels harsher speculation. Two neighbouring families, a young couple and an elderly father with his bedridden daughter, confront their own fears while discussing her fate. Her ambiguous life and death expose a society quick to judge independent women yet capable of rare empathy.

A Woman is a Flower is about the bond between two sisters who are dealing with two very different and heavy struggles.

The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

Several women (and one girl) in L.A. are hiding something from someone else, or discovering something hidden from them. Maxine, a therapist, discovers her husband cheating on her with the mother of Charlotte, a 13-year old patient. Addy (the other woman) and her sister Doris have withheld from the girl the truth of her parentage. Holly, an adult film actor, isn't telling her friend Bambi how she feels about her, and another actor, Elektra, who discovers she's pregnant, hasn't told the baby's father that she loves him. A stuck elevator, a car crash, mid-air turbulence, a flight attendant, a shotgun-wielding bartender, and her roommate, who's a masseuse, help these women communicate.

Muhammad Abed Baryal has long been fascinated by the idea of creating a film inspired by the life, journeys, and inner world of Whitney Wright - not focusing on her work in the adult industry, but on her unexpected travels through regions such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.

After discovering she has a family and a shipping empire, a woman with amnesia returns to a wealthy and seemingly perfect past to uncover why she left.

Birgit, an experienced and passionate midwife, has to manage the pregnancies of Elisabeth and Annika, a couple who happen to be pregnant at the exact same time… quite the challenge! An offbeat and hilarious film that will change the way you look at "wise" women.

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.

Haunted by his partner’s murder, a veteran detective and his protégé investigate a copycat killer whose crimes expose a betrayal buried within their own ranks.

For 16 minutes and 3 seconds, we enter the life of a young woman, who experiences a strange and utterly disturbing situation on the road when driving her car. Unaware of the danger, we travel with her emotions until the unexpected and scary reveal at the end.

Fierce and unstoppable, they are a chorus of wild energy ready to shake Thebes to its core — and liberate its women. But their god Dionysos has his own reckoning. In a showdown with his cousin, King Pentheus, family loyalty, political power and human desire are pushed to breaking point.

Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?