Beauty

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Lily is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the Miss India America title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn't just pretty smiles and high heels, and her main competition, Sonia, gives her a run for her money.

Desir

When Magnolia becomes entranced by a make-up infomercial, her bottled up jealousy towards her friend, Florence, comes flowing out in a mixture of arguing, hallucinating, and creating.

She tells Lalin's journey from Thailand to Japan. With the opportunity to study abroad, she flees to Sapporo, where no one knows her and can live under a new identity. Posing as a modern beauty, she becomes an idol on the internet and on social media platforms. The reality is that Lalin hides his face every day with a mask, hiding from the world and striving for self-acceptance.

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, Agnes, and she will go to any length to catch the Prince’s eye.

As Hanna and her ten-year-old niece, Erle, get ready for a day at the beach, Hanna is faced with a dilemma: How can she manage to be both a cool aunt and a good role model in this situation?

V4.04

A Vietnamese-American girl idolizes her mother and follows her strict beauty routine until her mother gets an unexpected surgery.

Aphrodite Stereotype

Reina, who feels insecure about her looks, masters the art of makeup and transforms into a "goddess". Her makeover sparks a sweet, heart-throbbing love triangle with the enigmatic Shun and warm Yu, where secrets and tender emotions could change everything.

Reina's beauty and dreams dazzle, but her bare face exposes hidden truths as Shun and Yu vie for her heart, stirring tension and racing emotions.

« Shunned by her peers, a ballerina struggles to find her place in her dance group. In echo, three women reveal the invisible scars left by beauty standards. »

A film about societal beauty standards, self-improvement, and identity

A present-day young actor becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of Antinous, sparking a psychosexual drama that bridges the grandeur of ancient Rome with Hollywood’s obsession with youth, beauty and immortality.

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

There's a witch that can grant any wish, but in return she takes a part of your soul to survive. However, is it really all what it seems? What would you wish for?

The film talks about how in India everyone wants to be light skinned, and how there is a sense of idealism and beauty associated with fair skin, whereas it is negativity and repulsion that is associated with dark skin.

Beau

In a casting room, Claire and Louis judge fruits and vegetables as if they were contestants in a beauty contest. Weight, appearance and texture become absurd elimination criteria. After a series of ruthless rejections, their choice falls on a Brussels sprout, plain and unpopular, deemed “perfect” because it fits the norms. A short, ironic satire of society’s imposed beauty standards.