Thanks to his best friend Eugenie the chicken, the reclusive Albert finds himself involved in a fateful game of chance that leads him to his true love. But is it really all just a coincidence?
Paris, 2021. Five activists converge on a single location, thwarting the rules of the COVID19 pandemic - To what end?
Berta Zenefels (84) has never seen the sea. She has barely ever left her beloved farm the „Zollhaus“ in Bavaria. Day by day the born landlady was standing in the kitchen, where she fried thousands of Schnitzel’s for her guests. A life shaped by hard …
This is the story of Juozapas, a very special boy who has a big secret. His heart is protected by a glass dome and thick armor. The center of his universe is the bug hotel he built himself in an old manor house and the insects that live there. One da…
Considering arguments and issues with her husband, Sara is hesitant to choose between aborting their child and immigration, or staying in her country. By realizing the truth about her husband, she makes up her mind and plans for a new future.
Enma and Joel spend Sunday afternoon at home. After watching a superhero movie, Enma's imagination runs wild and she thinks she has superpowers. Joel turns on the TV, on all the channels they talk about the case of "the herd". An unfortunate comment …
The story is about a 12 years old boy having a spiritual relationship with his dead grandpa the relationship starts to evolve during the storyline.
Elyes, an electric 30-something single-parent, has decided to accept the placement of her daughter, Zohra. But he didn't tell her anything. Yet there are only a few hours left before the separation.
In a small mountain town a group of teenagers is making plans for holidays at the seaside. Fatema instead, even after her father's death, hasn't yet managed to embrace life as an Italian girl. The arrival of a new immigrant family increases her disco…
An insignificant being whom no one will remember. We can see through his eyes what we ignore day by day: the others. " I wanted to be a part of your world, I screamed very loud! But you have not learned how to listen.
It's about a woman who has lost two sons, one in war and one in political arrestment and tries to save the other one.
A heat wave strikes Buenos Aires and Juana has to stay while everyone is on vacation; for her everything seems repetitive and dull, and a pop song about the sea follows her everywhere.
In 1991 as a teenager in Telford, England the filmmaker and her best friend went to the cinema to watch Thelma & Louise. On the way home they were empowered and full of joy. But this feeling did not last as the reality of everyday sexual violence…
Xueli, a Chinese teenager, got into an argument with her mother during the dress hunt for the welcome party at her new school in the States. Having settled for a traditional Chinese qipao but with a fashionable pleated look, Xueli leaves hometown wit…
Michael is a young musician who plays guitar for Nina, a well-known musician that recently got divorced. He’s also Nina’s life partner, and functions as a father to her daughter Lia, for the last year. Now Michael and Nina’s relationship is coming to…
A mountain slope, an orchard, a house. Idyllic pictures in southern Serbia. Three generations under the roof of the house that is being prepared for its transmission. Everyone with their own inheritance, which has to be carried together - Memories, f…
As an exercise of resistance, Sônia follows the process of destruction caused by the sea, which day by day, advances into the beach and approaches her home. She makes daily records of this process and through them builds an emotional bond, a solitary…
Dasha, a young biologist, prepares to defend her Ph.D. on the Baikal seal. Her Ph.D. advisor is skeptical about Dasha’s love for animals, and her mother only cares about the girl not missing night prayers. A story about a conflict between science and…
Brian, Sara, Justin and Celine, four very different colleagues, find their days in the office unwittingly messed with when their new photocopier "Trixie" secretly comes to life and goes to extreme lengths to stop inner office meddling.
Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance. The script is stylised in a theatrical form, taking the works of Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya as a background. The tone draws on Petrushevs…
Laure does housekeeping for the Saudi royals in their parisian apartment. When unknown men break into the place, she must suddenly hide with her employer in a closet. The two women must stay silent, huddled together.
The old woman lives alone in an apartment house and her only hobby is satellite and its serials. One night, the officers collect the satellite dishes of the building where the old woman lives. She is trying to save her satellite dish from the agents……
Nazanin is a seven years old girl, who is trying to reveal a secret that bothers her by getting close to the emergency agent who has come to their house to check on her mother.
En camino is a journey from Mexico City to Mérida. It collects the testimonies of many women and activists. Through their experiences and emotions we address a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a woman in Mexico? The answer is plural and …
One winter evening in Briancon (France), Cécile asks her sister and her sister's partner to host a family of migrants for one night. When one says yes, the other says no.
Emma, a woman of 35 years old, beaten by her abusive husband, escape her house during the night with her 5 years old daughter, CHLOE. Emma manage to get rescued by the emergency and is sent to a shelter that greet women victim of domestic violence. I…
Kristina is a twenty-four years old trainee in a consulting firm who tries to escape boredom in Aikido trainings. Her single mother, Marina, whose life is entirely concentrated on her daughter, works as a real estate agent by day and writes erotic no…
As part of an unusual farewell ritual, two siblings end up at a Chinese restaurant. Both feel guilty after the recent death of their mother and find it difficult to broach the subject. At another table a father improves his daughter's homework, at th…
Fish Out Of Water, which tells about the conflict of another individual in the inner and outer world, with an experimental language personalized by the director, tells the conflicts that she experiences when she cannot adapt to society.
"When you're black, you have to work twice as hard as the others, otherwise you will dissapear" Laura, an absolute fan of Harry Roselmack, watches her favorit tv host dissapear. Will she dissapear as well if she gets bad grades at school ?
Lin is an eight-year-old girl who suffers from loneliness after the divorce of her parents. Living with her grandma, she misses her mother a lot but she is forbidden from contacting her mother. One night, she decides to flee. She goes a long way from…
Sarita is a modern Cambodian girl in a relationship with Sam, foreigner in Cambodia. To Sarita, Sam is a symbol of freedom, freedom that has been missing in her life, circled by patriarcal family rules and conservative traditions. When cultural duali…
When the pandemic changes the celebration plans of a newlywed, they realize that not all honeymoons are sweet... much less during a quarantine.
When 52-year-old Nora plays her supporting role for the umpteenth performance and again undergoes the toxic behaviour of the theatre company and the bullying of the male lead actor, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
The short shows the evolution of the director, from her childhood to the moment she decides she doesn’t want to be a human anymore, resolution both political and provocative. Her story is told alongside that of humanity, the relationship between huma…
When an archetypal 1950’s woman, is unsettled by her existence as a housewife, she escapes into a fantasy realm of art and freedom; in spite of her toxic husband.
The unbelievable real life story of one of the most highly-respected immunologists and geneticists, Czech-Canadian Professor Emil Skamene. He devoted his life to uncovering the secrets of genes, while not knowing is own identity for many decades! He …
Upon sudden suicide of Aban’s mother, she finds it no more bearable to remain in this dilemma she used to call home. On the day of the funeral, Aban decides to leave for an undecided destination. A journey where her insight gradually aligns with a co…
Katsi is an old man living among the green mountains of Valley of Coruh. He realises that there is no wood left to burn so he goes to the woodshed to fill his basket. He sees an old chest amongst the firewood. He opens the chest and finds an old fami…
A Sardinian village, in the early twentieth century. "The She-Wolf" tells the story of a woman so named because of the relationships she has with the men of the village. Her freedom does not fit in this small society's manners, and will led her to he…
"Larvae Story" is a four-minute-long stop motion animation illustrating larvae’s struggle to live. Larvae are residing in a dust world. They have built their advanced world. Even if larvae don’t have wings, they could fly by using technology. Larvae …
The movie Son Eylül tells the story of Sarkis, who had to immigrate from Istanbul due to the 6-7 September Incidents, returning to Istanbul Beyoğlu, where he was born and raised sixty years later
Lemon Island (Citromsziget) is a slum in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. A closed community of homeless people with its unique atmosphere and its own subculture. A functioning micro-society with the occasional drama and moments of joy.
Seven French Muslim women take back the narrative of their lives, defying the idea of the “oppressed Muslim woman” and pushing the viewer to question their own assumptions on liberty, feminism and the French national identity.
it is beginning of first lockdown in France. She is an Iranian student there and very happy about this unplanned vacation. but things turn differently...
Mother Shoal is the story of how some remarkable women (and Mother Nature) saved a disadvantaged Indian fishing community in Durban, South Africa, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s a story of the triumph of the human spirit during adve…
Musher peels back the veil behind the bond that four women have between their dogs and the world of sled-dog racing. As each woman prepares for the Copperdog annual race, we reveal the intimate insight into the mushing community, devotion to that lif…
Angelika Rainer, born in Merano in 1986, is a three-times world champion in ice climbing and receives recognition around the world for her sporting skills. The Merano climber was the first woman in her family able to decide for herself what she wante…
Pandora, (Greek: “All-Gifts”) the first mortal woman molded of earth and water in Greek mythology. Bestowed with the Olympian gods’ largesse, she nevertheless, was punished for her gift of curiosity – in turn humankind was punished along with her – o…
The monotonous world of a struggling single woman starts cracking when a man throws stones at her window, bringing her to the verge of making a drastic change.
Alper's, who has hearing impairment and disfigurement, story of clinging to life with art.
This is a family portrait, an adventure full of hope, despair and its very own definition of love. A film about a piece of contemporary German history, which provides room for reflection. More importantly without ever becoming sentimental, it reveals…
The Protagonist, by her given name, is presented to us in her natural environment : a jungle, sadly, often lacking in density. But today enough is enough! Being the side piece of the main male character is no longer enough for our dear Protagonist ! …
STALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned…
While eating his sandwich at the park with his co-worker Steve, Steve experiences an existential crisis as he struggles to express his individuality in a society that rewards harmony. Through the shadows of Waiting for Godot, Steve & Steve hilar…
“Sweeping Yerevan” is a poetic observational portrait of Marina, a woman who travels 40 km every night to sweep the streets of Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, dodging cars and putting her life at risk, in order to provide for her blind husband, live-in m…
A symbolic animated film about Marina’s internal dialogue in contrast to reality, where she faces her surroundings and concerns. She is watching and interacts with her inner voice - the classmate. In the end, Marina is accepting herself. A growing up…
The film "The Enchanted Valley" deals with the topic of mythology and mysticism in paganism. The fear of the unpredictable - and above all the fear of transience or the loss of the paradisiacal current state - is interwoven with the here and now. The…
Thanks to his best friend Eugenie the chicken, the reclusive Albert finds himself involved in a fateful game of chance that leads him to his true love. But is it really all just a coincidence?
A man and a woman meet again in the old Cinema Doré at the beginning of the 70s, when the passage of time and the Franco dictatorship had relegated the seventh art to something decadent, allowing only the survival of the regime's films. They had not …
It is the story of a little girl who has lost her mother and tries to save the fishes instead
A couple in a long-distance relationship is about to meet each other. But when two magicians enter the real world, they turn everything upside down.
A portrait of a group of Syrian women who are together in a space to discuss homeland, identity in Berlin. Al-Nisāʾ is a poetic film depicting the worries and hopes of the women.
It is a contemporary dance tale, shot in Costa Rica in sumptuous natural settings. It describes the descent of women from the Sun to Earth and brings new energy. Initiatory evolution of a woman from her human condition to her condition of divine fusi…
Didier is a cab driver from the Paris suburbs. He frequently drives clients to and from the hospital where his wife is works. On that day he picks up a young woman and her daughter. As soon as the cab leaves the hospital, she bursts into tears. It tr…
Are we living a modern lie? In this extravagant satire, a mysterious carnival master walks us through the problems of our modern society, questioning the dangerous future we are building around us.
“What nobody talks about” is a an honest, heartfelt story about a reality experienced by many, yet unknown or barely talked about. Karoline is a 28 year old police officer who´s been fighting cancer for a year. Finally, she is announced cancer free a…
Everlasting waits and undelivered messages bring Rebeca and Nuria together to appreciate what really matters.
Philip is very successful. Everything in his life happens according to his plan. He is a brilliant lawyer, winning all hopeless cases thanks to his informal connections with supreme authorities. He is also happy in his private life: his virtuous wife…
This narrative stop-motion film explores the complexities of a relationship with a mother. The emphasis of a woman's presence on a child's growth is hidden between the lines of this short film. However, the connection must come to an end; after all, …
Harassment of women by men is considered a common and tolerated part of our lives. The film, through research and concrete testimony, surprisingly and suggestively reveals how many women have direct experience with harassment. Without blame, he calls…