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?
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a job. The attractive single mother can’t resist his attentions. Very subtly, a struggle ensues that reflects that of a whole generation of young doubting Iranians who may want to leave the country, but hardly know how to start.
The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland (1999) is a docu-drama celebrating the thirty year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win the right to vote.
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.
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.
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.
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.
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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.
A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.
In a world where flowers represent emotions, Gloria, an Italian Mother, faces devastating loss and loses her way. She must battle her own sadness to find peace.
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Set in Curitiba, the film follows the thoughts of a lonely woman struggling with social interaction, deep regrets, and a strange relationship with an old camera. Unemployed, she reflects on her existence and the constant feeling of being left behind. As she distorts reality through memories and hyper-sentimentality, the character delves into her deepest anxieties, revealing thoughts often considered shameful.
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
Tells the story of a young student and his spanish journalist friend who, after being victims of violence, they decide to act and organize a movement through Mexico's internet, but this is mistaken for a terrorist organization.
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.
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.