An experimental animated short film about the impact of war on women underscoring rape as a war crime in 1945. Told from the perspective of one family, this common yet forgotten story surrounding the Siege of Berlin.

Behind The Loom

(Cada uma de nós) EACH OF US addresses urban feminist struggles in Brazil. Through the stories of activists, we discover the difficulties and victories that go along with their commitments.

Cada uma de nós (Each of us)

No negatives. No filters. Just raw honesty, as seen through the lens of an antique camera and the stories of Milwaukee women leaders. Through interviews and the portraits taken by tintype photographer Margaret Muza, these women reveal what it takes to lead in their careers and in our communities — and why it’s so important for more women to lead today.

Direct Positive

Eli Nazik is a short film which was shot on smart phone. Eli Nazik is a delicious Turkish dish. It also means 'gentle hand'. Saliha lives in a poor district, shoots food recipe videos with her daughter Derya and posts them on their social media channel called "Mother and Daughter". On all of these videos that they shoot for money, hidden from her husband, Saliha's hands are to be seen only. During the shoots of the "Eli Nazik" video, her husband comes home from the village before the expected time, and the tragic truths get revealed.

Eli Nazik

This screen circus piece explores living as a circus artist with a menstrual cycle. It aims to be relatable and to raise awareness and get people talking about this important aspect of physiology that applies to almost half of the world’s population. It is hoped that it can encourage more thought into working with hormonal changes in menstruating individuals in order to optimise performance (and indeed just life) as opposed to working within the patriarchal norms that exist in all aspects of our society, which are optimised to serve those without a menstrual cycle.

Flow

MATKA / POLKA [MOTHER / POLE] is a meditation on what it means to be a woman in today’s Polish society. As a collection of stories – all verbatim – from waiting rooms, gynaecology chairs, abortion clinics, and bedrooms, the documentary bears witness to everyday acts of patriarchy and systemic violence. Adopting a poetic visual language, MATKA / POLKA breaks the taboo around the experiences, emotions and identity of Polish women who have faced the country's strict reproductive policy and social prejudices to make decisions about their own life and body.

MATKA / POLKA [MOTHER / POLE]

In Victorian-era England, highly precocious and imaginative eleven-year-old Georgiana Crimsworth is up late enjoying a good book. She suddenly experiences cramps and finds blood on her sheets. Not having received the talk yet, she doesn’t understand that this is her first period, and she thinks she’s dying. Her imagination runs amok as she searches for answers among sins and deadly disease, and fears the worst for what this means for herself and for her family.

Period Drama

Teenage Rose wades through the negative voices of gossipy school girls and an abusive boyfriend to find the positive while waiting for results on a pregnancy test.

Positive

Stefanie, who just lost her son, is secretly pregnant in a world where one family can only conceive one child per life, and she has to face her husband, who is a birth control officer, and his new protege.

Scrambled Eggs

Sebari Milach is an awareness film aimed to show the dark ritualistic practices of female circumcision illegally practiced in Africa. This film touches on a true story about a young Ethiopian girl who gets tricked by her mother into getting circumcised at a ritual purification ceremony shortly after her sister passed away from the same practice.

Sebari Milach

When friends and family only see what they want to see, everything behind closed doors would never seem to be flawed. Therefore, no one seems to realize that one person's happiness can be their worst nightmare.

Stuck

A group of young women of colour share how they empower each other through artistry to empower their community

To Be Seen

Strong-willed and determined Ulbolsyn lives in the city. Her younger sister Azhar is going to graduate from school in the village of Karatas. Ulbolsyn has big plans for the future of her beloved sister – she saved enough money so that Azhar could enter a prestigious foreign university, which would allow her to make a good career and become free and independent. However, when Ulbolsyn comes to Karatas for Azhar, she discovers that the girl was kidnapped by the local healer Urgen, a highly respected person in the village. He is going to make Azhar his ‘tokal’ – the younger wife. But Ulbolsyn does not intend to leave it this way, and she decisively enters the struggle with the patriarchal world of Karatas

Ulbolsyn

This is a short film about a girl's journey through womanhood. It's a criticism on how society treats women from adolescence to adulthood.

What We Just Don't Tell Our Girls

Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.

You Resemble Me

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