A Dance for Heroes

If you don’t laugh, you’re dead

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.

Seeking refuge on an island in Upstate New York, a married couple's final attempt to salvage their failing relationship takes a turn for the worse when the husband begins to regress emotionally, mentally, and physically.

Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind eyes. Shannon is a mother enraptured with invisible pain. She endures in chaotic calm, cracking from the inside out. Exploring the definition of motherhood and female madness, we ask: is reckoning with female pain more dangerous than playing pretend?

A young Saudi doctor campaigns for a seat on the municipal council, finding confidence as she combats prejudice.

Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband doesn’t know that she’s pregnant with their second child. Will she have to choose between motherhood and her career?

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

We Iranian Women

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.

Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggle are told through archival footage and interviews with the group’s members.

A woman of nobility battles patriarchal norms in order to improve educational access for women in early 1900s Indonesian society.

Emma is whisked away in the dead of night, covered in bruises and unexpectedly pregnant. Finding a new home in a women’s shelter, she rediscovers lost facets of herself.

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.

When a positive pregnancy test derails her life, a single woman and her childhood best friend - who harbors a secret of her own - face a difficult decision in an increasingly restrictive U.S.A.

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

When a young social elite at the turn of the nineteenth century explores life as a modern woman, she risks losing the man she loves and a certain future.

After failing to get a taxi, Jane is forced to walk home alone after a night out with friends. Encountering a group of men at an underpass, she changes direction only to see they have begun to follow her. It's not long until we realise where the real danger lies.