Thach Thao (Maya) is a beautiful girl with a good voice, but she soon loses her parents and is cared for by her cousin, singer Ellie (Trizzie Phuong Trinh). The first time she sang on stage, Thao immediately caught the eye of a music producer named S…

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Alma is a young woman who leads a peaceful life in the Brazilian countryside. She denies her own artistic potential at the same time that the outcomes of her mother‘s political involvement against the military dictatorship in Brazil are revealed.

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Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? 'Between Delicate and Violent' imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.

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What is left when the war is over? Cherry Juice traces this question through a wild and unpredictable night in Sarajevo when Selma, a young Bosnian screenwriter, shares an adventurous encounter with a German actor named Niklas. 

 Cherry Juice, which…

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Documentary by Graziela Mantoanelli tells stories of women in technology. 

Currently, technology leads the paths of humanity, as in addition to dictating behavior and recoding cultures, computational language has become an important funnel for acces…

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The animated film “Dance of Life” is a parable about the eternal movement of life. A person appears from love and leaves when love ends. 

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  • Director Anastasia Sokolova
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Daughters of Maguey is the story of a group of women who decided to break a male monopoly. Despite their historic involvement in the production of agave distillates, archaic traditions and beliefs have kept women under yet another glass ceiling. But …

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For forty years A-Rui has been running a barbershop. She is fully commited to her work and defeat is never an option for her, but her children treat her profession with disdain. One day, a family asks A-Rui if she would be willing to travel long-dist…

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  • Director Tien-Yu FU
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Even stone flows - iron and glass flow too - just slower. Everything takes some moment. Time can be fluid. A short visual poem about the fluidity of being.

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  • Director Michaela Čopíková, Veronika Obertová
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To get on with her life, Els, a mother in her forties, has to accept her adult daughter's decision to request psychiatric euthanasia.

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Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets back up! At the hospital, the diagnosis is formal: he has no heart. Has he left it behind in Iran?

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I You He/She We You They, tells the story of a young girl who is forced to marry the perpetrator of rape struggles between power, law, society and family. Salvation is in solidarity.

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In her efforts to obtain accommodation and thus a residence permit in Austria, Marinela, an overburdened single Romanian mother, relies on her daughter Ilinca as a mediator and translator. The 8-year-old, however, has other plans.

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A German film team is shooting a documentary in north-east Turkey. In a Kurdish village they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. Meanwhile, a Turkish secret service agent from the region…

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Anıl is imprisoned to the existing order while working at his father Faysal's company. Despite his passion for dancing, Anıl finds himself constrained to his alienation. Faysal, on the other hand, envisions his son as a perfect businessman and critic…

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  • Director Canan Sennaroğlu
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Betty Vásquez Rivera is a Honduran environmentalist, María Caal is a Mayan Q'eqchi' community leader and lives in Guatemala, without knowing each other, they are united by one clarity: the defense of the rivers in her territories.

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  • Director Laura Bermudez Anais Taracena
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"ŠUTIM" follows a photography student Barbara in the preparation of an independent photo exhibition. Awaiting her first solo exhibition, invisible problems become more and more visible and her fear-induced reactions result in change. The film breaks …

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  • Director Sara Horvatić
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In order to fit in with society, we create one-dimensional personalities and take refuge behind the safe zones provided by the masks we create. What would happen if someone dared to take off this mask?

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1885: A brutal murder in the Vega winery ends the romance of two young lovers. The mysterious aristocrat Ferran arrives at the village on Carnival night thirty years later finding Don Carlo in town square and inviting him to taste a new batch of Gran…

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In the mirror I see different places, different stories from times that are not mine. I adapt to an identity they want me to be. I'm made of layers and more layers of unknowns. I long to become a free shape.

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na·nit·ic: "The first brood of worker ants produced by a queen ant using only the reserved nutrition in her body. Nanitics shoulder the initial fate of the colony and are often underfed due to the conditions in colony building. Thus, nanitics may be …

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When an alien soul from destroyed planet Merlershkö reincarnates into a human body, she finally remembers her past lives after a 2000-year amnesic spell cast by her mother protected her from her memories.

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On January 25, 2020, the 25-year-old girl Maria Gloria Poltronieri Borges was raped, killed and left alone at a waterfall not far from her hometown in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The film "No one to lose" is made out of a grieving process the film…

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Numan...A man from nowhere… With no background…With no destiny…Lost in his thought…Living his spiritual death…And life attach him in the shape of some young girl who play football…

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  • Director Zohreh Zamai
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A young woman, disturbed by her mother's death, goes through the mourning process, seeking refuge in the study and observation of funeral rites. As grief and acceptance of death permeate her inner universe, she finds herself.

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  • Director Mónica Santos
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The animation film "Penguins" is a simple story about how we all need someone to lend a helping hand in a difficult moment.

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  • Director Anastasia Sokolova
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The collective story of the Dutroux Affair, told by the generation of children of the 90s. Their memories are distorted by the media prism and their own childlike eyes. Together, they deliver an intimate version of history. A piece of collective memo…

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  • Director Pauline Beugnies
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“Rolled Back Cassettes" is a short experimental film that delves into the intricate world of a woman haunted by her lack of a genuine childhood memory. Seeking solace and closure, she embarks on a journey to confront her past, leading to a profound s…

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Sew to Say tells the story of Thalia, an artist and banner maker who in the early 80s joined a women-only peace camp at Greenham Common to stand against nuclear weapons. The film looks back at the longest feminist protest in British history that attr…

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The short film “Sock’s Manifesto” will be incorporated in the feature film “Angel Pardalos”.

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  • Director Angeliki Pardalidou
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Being thrown down a flight of stairs, hit by a car or beaten up is the everyday life for stuntwomen. We follow Virginie, Petra and Estelle during training sessions and on film sets in France and the US. What does all this pretend-violence do to their…

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A clown is sitting at a table full of food and drinks. Three men and three women in stylish clothes enter and sit at the table, each person has an envelope that contains requests for the clown.

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Peli&Nina are a couple from a Roma community in Transylvania, cradle of old marriage rituals. Parents to a little girl, they strive to conceive a son to inherit the family’s badge, the chalice. Lest they do so they will resort to sex selective ab…

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  • Director Catalina Tesar, Dana Bunescu
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Alus is a nomadic electronic musician, he accompanies his mother who has Alzheimer's disease back to the grassland to spend her last days together.

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An empathic, young plant doctor gifted with extrasensory powers and an emotionally fragile, isolated artist, must rescue each other to rediscover the essence of living. A coming of age story about two women from different generations, who have more i…

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The film is a bright and touching documentary story about Latvian seniors and their search for love. It tells the story of people who, despite their respectable age, refuse to accept loneliness and courageously embark on new adventures, embracing the…

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Rita is seventeen. She has been hating her body since her childhood. Despite the bullying Rita decided to invite her classmates to her birthday party. She wanted to see Artem, a popular guy she is in love with. But everything went wrong, and Rita's d…

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  • Director Alisa Khairetdinova
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Maria, a 70-year-old writer, after years spent in northern cities, returns to her native land in Calabria.

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"Veiled Inches" tells the story of Remya, a pregnant woman struggling against the constraints of society. The film explores themes of resilience, societal norms, poverty and class discrimination. Remya finds herself trapped in a world where societal …

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Vice Versa is the story of an adventure of a photographer and his father on the roof of a church in Rome. The photographer's eyes rest on his hometown from above, turning it upside down, depriving it of movement and human beings. The dream of his gaz…

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  • Director ELETTRA PIERANTONI
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The second film of the Pandemic Trilogy, “Why Am I Still Here Then?” is a sequel to 61 Street No 4, and it makes the audience experience the unconscious reflection of the Other who entered in the previous film. The monologues throughout the film emph…

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  • Director Çağıl Saydam
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A pregnant woman is meant to radiate unconditional love for her unborn child but what if her feelings are more complex and dark? Post-natal depression is increasingly understood but in a society that portrays pregnancy as an uncomplicated journey of …

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  • Director Eleanor Church, Katharina Koall
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As a teen in the 1980s, Yeter Güneş fought against the military dictatorship in Turkey. Almost 40 years later now living in Austria she bears witness to survival. On the narrow ridge of the unspeakable, the film breaks through narrative traditions fo…

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  • Director Yeter Güneş, Lilly Axster, Bernadette Dewald, Louis Hofbauer
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