A pitiless fight where a woman must face up to her beast.
Kedamono dir. Chiara Speziale & Antonella Fabiano
The Third Sorrow dir. Myriam Raja
Yejide is a single mother and preparing for her daughter's cutting ceremony. As maternal instinct and duty come into conflict, she begins to question this tradition, and her daughter's future.
Silence dir. Fiona Compton
The Road is a Red Thread dir. Melissa Elizondo Moreno
When I go out the door I feel like I may never come back, every morning I say goodbye to go through that endless open wound where women are killed day after day: the State of Mexico.
Throughout my life I have traveled in perpetual state of alert in the areas where thousands of women have "disappeared" and like millions of women in Mexico, I daily live the fear of being raped, beaten to death, stabbed or dismembered and end up in a garbage bag while I try to get home.
We are violated at work, at school, on the street and even in our own home. We have grown up hearing heinous stories of femicides that are repeated everyday. For us, "living" has become surviving.
Expensive Shit dir. Adura Onashile
In a Glasgow nightclub, Tolu, a Nigerian toilet attendant, desperate for survival manipulates the behaviour of unsuspecting women for the titillation of men watching behind the mirrors. Tonight a line has been crossed and she is forced to hand out a drugged bottle of water.
Tolu struggles with the choice she has to make when Louise, a regular punter, and the only person that Tolu has a connection with becomes the target and is drugged. As the night spins out of control, Tolu, unable to live with what she has done, finds the strength to change everything.
Everybody's Business dir. Miranda Stern
WOMXN dir. Eden Tinto Collins & Adrien Peskine
Jane Dark lives and studies in the Noir-Et-Cher. Whenever her community is harassed by Europe Normale Police. She turns into the super shero WOMXN helped by her mate: a womanoïd Dolphin in a spaceship called the KORA Mother.
Ballet After Dark dir. B. Monét
Ballet After Dark tells the story of a young woman who found the strength to survive after an attack. She created an organisation that is helping sexual abuse and domestic violent survivors find healing after trauma through dance therapy.
Eyes Down dir. Charlotte Daniel
Mary, a trans woman, makes her maiden journey on the Glasgow Subway system. Mary has come to terms with her true identity late in life and she is finding that accepting your true self is just the beginning. It takes bravery to show yourself and live your truth every day. Even in this day and age.
But Mary learns that it only takes one person to really see you and to offer you something as small as a smile to give you the strength and encouragement to carry on holding your head high.
Waves dir. Jessie Ayles
Filmed in Cape Town's notorious Lavender Hill, Waves explores the perspective of three young girls as they grow up together in one of South Africa's most violent communities.
