In December 2025, the extraordinary artist Hildegard Knef would have celebrated her 100th birthday. Her life was shaped by numerous talents, an unshakeable will to succeed and the ability to keep pushing herself forward. This documentary sheds light on the life of the legendary actress and singer.
Anna and Beca meet for the first time after texting for weeks, and find that they have a hard time connecting to each other in real life.
Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.
A suburban American woman inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire and, guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere, defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.
The aging writer Shelestov falls passionately in love with a young actress Olga Rogina and wants to marry her. They spend many evenings together and, it seems, their story is approaching a happy denouement. But suddenly, a plane of a famous aviator lands near the town because of a plane breakdown. Romantic Olga falls in love with him and, leaving Shelestov, flies away with the pilot of the plane. The writer becomes desperate and commits suicide.
Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler’s gaze. A mountaineer, a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, an antique merchant and others are revealed through their own optical autobiographies.
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
The 35-year-old landowner Pavel Alexandrovich returns to his estate after a long absence. Having met his former university friend Priimkov, Pavel learns that he is married to Vera Yeletskaya, his former lover. Pavel is immersed in memories...
After the death of her father, young Irina becomes the sole support of the family, as her mother is seriously ill and her little sister is still too young. One day during a walk she meets the artist Vladimir and falls in love with him. The two begin to date. Vladimir, having fallen in love with Irina, wants to get rid of his connection with a married woman Elena. Elena's husband has been watching the lovers for a long time and the farewell date of Vladimir and Elena serves as an excuse for him to challenge his rival to a duel. During the duel Vladimir dies. Having learned about the death of her beloved, Irina dies of a heart attack. Her mother, left all alone, mourns her daughter's death bitterly.
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raising her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enrol him in one of the best cooking schools in France.
An Affair of the Clasps
Ella is captivated by Jodie, a writer of erotic fiction. Sent to her majestic country house to photograph her for a magazine, Ella discovers there is more to Jodie than meets the eye. Siren is an erotic lesbian drama made by women for women. Featuring a main cast of six beautiful women, Siren features exquisite visual imagery combined with a stunning soundtrack. Siren is the ultimate in lesbian erotica.
It is the story, the process of becoming more and simultaneously less than human through technology as it follows a few characters through this transformation of becoming.
Cultural historian Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing and exciting short films by emerging women directors and artists. Each film gives a female perspective on modern-day topics from body image and new love to grief and belonging. Expect honest and refreshing storytelling that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you think. In a Room Full of Sisters; Blood Stains; Bridging the Gap; Cake; Ding-Ding, Next; Fruity; In Perpetuum; Owulide; White Dwarf; Cosmic Domestic; The Dead Are Jewels to Me; The Presence of Absence
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree of vandalism, the girls are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.
The Thief
The Arsonist’s Daughter
A mosca cieca
Harmonies de Paris, restored by the Cinémathèque Française in the 1990s, was shot entirely on panchromatic film and was meant to be a documentary tour of Paris in thirteen thematic chapters. The subject is a tourist group arriving in the French capital by airplane, which explains the many shots of monuments and other canonical places.