Adolescentes
Despite profound economic differences, Emma and Anaïs are best friends. Sébastien Lifshitz (Les Invisibles) followed them closely from age 13 to 18, crafting an intimate account of an adolescence taking place amid events that shook France and shaped the girls’ world.
Another Day in Paradise
Waking up from a 70-day coma, Trina is forced to face her own life - and her death, yet again.
Billie
Hundreds of hours of raw and emotional interviews—research for Billy Holiday’s biography, which was never written—are unearthed 60 years after the famed singer’s death. Relatives, musicians, lovers, and even cops and pimps tell her story with brutal honesty.
Bitter Love
Gathered on a ship sailing along the river Volga are people who could have been characters in a classic Russian novel. Just like in the books, they are all looking for love. Jerzy Sladkowski (director of Don Juan) created a film brimming with humor, dancing, dramatic conversations, alcohol, and moments that wrench your heart and make it swell with compassion at the same time.
Capturing Lee Miller
Lee Miller was not afraid to break the rules. The iconic model became a daring and original war reporter during World War II. Her family uncovered her many photographs and secrets only after her death.
Coded Bias
The machine-learning algorithms that run so many aspects of our lives are prejudiced, racist, and sexist—just like the experts who created them. Featuring personal stories from victims of biased AIs, the film follows female activists pushing for legislative protection against this injustice. Nominated to the Beyond the Screen Award
Four Mothers
A female-driven, grassroots protest movement takes on the military establishment and challenges the patriarchal society of Israel to stop a bloody war that has been raging for years.
Helmut Newton: the Bad and the Beautiful
Even though his fashion editorials were heavily influenced by 1930s German aesthetic, nobody could deny that Helmut Newton was a genius. His friends, colleagues, and the powerful women he photographed paint the portrait of this controversial photographer.
Home
Two women are trying to clean the apartment where one of them lives with 12 cats. The attempt to help encounters resistance, and as the dirt clears, so does a new consciousness.
I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
Italian feminist artist Pippa Bacca had a vision of hope. She wanted to send a message of peace and trust to war-ridden countries, and she picked a creative way to do it: hitchhiking in a wedding dress. But when she reached Turkey, her inspiring journey came to an abrupt, tragic end.
In a Whisper
Winner of the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. Patricia and Heidi grew up in Cuba and dreamed of making films. When they defected from their homeland, they lost touch with each other. Now, they are trying to reconnect through video letters: intimate personal diaries documenting the joy, guilt, and homesickness their new lives have brought them.
La Mami
In the backstage area of a night club in Mexico City, Mami presides over her little kingdom—the women’s restroom. Clever and grouchy, the old lady looks after the hostesses at the club. She used to be a dancer just like them. Today, she is their guardian angel.
Little Victories
Two women from Tel Aviv, each caught in her own net of everyday battles, get swept away by a charismatic catchball coach, determined to make them fall in love with another net, mixing together sports and life, laughter and heartbreak.
Love It Was Not
The unbelievable and tragic love story of Helena, a young Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz, and Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch.
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power
The TV adaptation of A Handmaid’s Tale has made Margaret Atwood into a superstar. At 80, the brilliant Canadian author jets around the world to meet her readers and talks with candor and humor about her life story and the sources of inspiration for her work.
Mizuko
A young woman coping with deep emotional pain returns to her Japanese roots, finds solace in traditional rituals, and tells her story through unique animation.
No Hard Feelings
An intimate look at the director’s mother, who immigrated from the Caucasus 26 years ago, only to experience a living hell because of her violent husband. A story about patriarchy, immigration, and hope.
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela
Congo Mirador used to be a bustling fishing village, but the rising lake water is threatening to turn it into a swamp, and the Venezuelan government is not lifting a finger to help. This breathtaking film follows the villagers as they struggle to survive the environmental disaster we all fear.
Overseas
In a training center dedicated to domestic work, a group of Filipina trainees, who will soon deploy to work overseas, are getting ready to face their future employers. The things they must endure are so bizarre, funny, and frightening that it often seems as though they are attending a drama class. Nominated to the Beyond the Screen Award
Quebramar
Vacationing together on a secluded beach, young lesbians from Brazil create an intimate safe space for themselves, and fill it with music.
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack has always said that art was “the only way to decipher reality.” Still at the top of her game at 88, the acclaimed photorealistic artist retraces her steps on the difficult path she had to walk to be recognized as one of the most important artists of her generation.
Rain in Her Eyes
The story of Dvora Omer, from the dark secrets of her childhood to her status as Israel’s ‘national’ author whose writing influenced generations of children. Her son, the filmmaker, revisits the events that shaped her life.
Raymonde El Bidaoia
Armed with a camera, Yael Abecassis followed her mother—legendary Moroccan singer Raymonde—in an attempt to understand and redefine their relationship. Transposed and transformed, Mother and daughter remain entwined, bound by guilt, admiration, pain, and above all—limitless love and music.
Shadow Flowers
Ryun-hee Kim found herself in South Korea by accident. Despite her pleas, the authorities refuse to allow her to return to North Korea. Desperate to be reunited with her family, she tries to go back any way she can, but the seemingly more liberal of the two Koreas refuses to let her go.
States of Unbelonging
Lynne Sachs never met Revital Ohayon, an Israeli filmmaker murdered by a terrorist along with her children. Driven by a news article and working from a great distance, Sachs pieces together the portrait of a woman who was much like her—but lived in a starkly different reality.
The Cave
Doctor Amani dreamed of becoming a pediatrician, but the unending war in Syria forced her underground. This rare and profoundly human documentary follows the young doctor as she runs a secret underground hospital hidden in the caves and tunnels underneath a bombarded city. Nominated to the Beyond the Screen Award
The Go-Go's
When they decided to form a band, they taught themselves to play their instruments and then wrote, composed and performed hits that took the world by storm. 40 years later, the Go-Go’s—the most successful all-female band in history—tell us all about it with ample humor and zero censorship.
The Mole Agent
Armed with a hidden camera and a voice recorder, 83-year-old Sergio goes undercover and infiltrates a retirement home. He is not much of a spy, but his natural charm draws the ladies like a magnet. Maite Alberdi (La Once) delivers a heartwarming and delightfully human spy thriller.
The War of Raya Sinitsina
A young filmmaker follows a 94-year-old Soviet war heroine who fought in the Siege of Leningrad. During filming, the two become involved in a spiritual process that awakens the young woman within her. A film about war and loss becomes a story of love and friendship.
Umbilical
This stirring animation brings to life the memories of a mother and her daughter, shared in a heart-to-heart conversation about things kept secret for years.
Village of Women
The women of the Armenian village of Lichk till the soil, chop wood and take care of the children and elderly all by themselves. The men spend most of the year in Russia, the only place where they can find work. The distance is frustrating and disheartening, but come winter the men return, rekindling excitement and even passion in the women’s hearts.
Walchensee Forever
In a small family-owned café on the shore of one of Bavaria’s most stunning lakes, director Janna Ji Wonders gets to know five generations of women in her family. Filled with love and heartbreak, their stories are dramatic, daring, and exotic, and she shows and tells them with mesmerizing tenderness.
