Women

In this unconventional dramedy, Diane carries the child of her homosexual friends Thomas and Jacques as a surrogate mother.

Dorien is happy: she has two adorable children and a thriving veterinary practice. But one day, everything comes crashing down.

WORKING GIRLS is a gripping, character-driven drama about three resilient prostitutes navigating complex lives and dark secrets in a Belgian brothel.

For Carys, the end of her relationship is also the end of the world. Single for the first time in ages. And now?

After thirty years, the Mayor of Lyon is running out of ideas, and thanks to a young and brilliant philosopher, he is now getting new hope.

An ode to the multifaceted beauty of self-determined female pleasure - beyond the male gaze.

In this Berlinale Golden Bear contender film, three hypersexual women are spending 26 days in a quiet house by the lake.

A refreshingly realistic, contemporary, and self-ironic look at the lives of 10 lesbian women in Montreal, Canada.

Women have been an integral part of rock music from the beginning, but have been successfully repressed from the collective memory.

Four women tell how their lives were changed forever by the Munich Olympic assassination.

Israel's Official Submission to the 95th Academy Awards is a heartwarming journey of unlikely friendships and empowering conversations.

Slavery has never ended. It has just assumed other names and ways to conceal itself.

A dazzling coming-of-age film that interweaves a pivotal moment in Tunisian history with an 18-year-old's struggle for freedom.

Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.

Based on a true story, a French woman embarks on a breathtaking spiritual journey through Mongolia.

Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.

A year in Lara Gut’s universe, from the victory of the Alpine Ski World Cup title in 2016 to the comeback after an injury at the peak of her career.

A transgressive and political film about female nudity and how it is depicted.

Three German women go to New York City in the early 1980's and try to get established there.

Elza lives in a small town on the Caspian Sea. While her husband catches fish illegally, she dreams of breaking out of her small world.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.

Comedian and director Gessica Généus (FREDA) explores the connection between voodoo beliefs, Christianity and the treatment of mental illness in Haiti

Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.

In this atmospheric, retro-styled horror film, Cecilia must find her son, who has disappeared after a car accident with a mysterious priest.

After winning a highly charged case, a lawyer is found seriously injured on the side of the road.

A young woman in Mauritania, is forced to gain weight to meet traditional beauty standards before her upcoming wedding.

Emma's father was a lighting technician at a theater in the Alps until his accidental death. Since then, she has suffered from stage fright.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

When two estranged half-sisters are forced to move in together, they must confront their shared past and decades of pent-up resentment.

A trio of marriage swindlers played by Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli and Mascha Gonska, roam post-war France cheating and murdering.

Victims of their circumstances: The two best friends Emma and Anaïs face very different futures.

Adèle's attempt to recover from a breakup leads to surprising results. Jumping from one lover to the next, she realizes that they are similar.

A press photographer retreats to Sicily after being held captive in Libya. But even here she cannot escape her trauma.

A Massachusetts woman who tirelessly cares for her bedridden cousin and her drug-addicted son finds herself grappling with painful memories.

Ronah is a sex worker and behavioral psychology student. As a surrogate partner, she sleeps with patients who have trouble allowing intimacy.

As reports of shark sightings create panic in a small beach town, 14-year-old Rosina begins to circle her own prey.

Lila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy, putting herself in a dangerous situation.

Far from the catwalks of the European fashion world, BINTOU runs a successful label in Burkina Faso.

Journalist Ina Borrmann chronicles her own infertility treatment and in the process unsparingly documents what she and her partner experience.

The film begins with a man called 'Thief' who is harvesting a type of larva for the bizarre effects it has on the human mind.

A sex-positive, female-centered comedy with a fresh take on teen sex comedy that challenges, established notions of gender roles and sexual morality.

Madeline is teenager who loves to act on stage. She fights with her mother and suffers from a illness which makes her believe she's a cat.

After her decision to end and unwanted pregnancy, 34-year-old Bridget reluctantly becomes a nanny to the bright and boisterous Frances.

A young Italian student of agriculture wants to save her family's olive trees from pollution, parasite infestation, and corruption.

A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. But the young mother collapses under the burden.

During a black out, social and personal conflicts culminate in an Istanbul neighborhood threatened by gentrification.

Can a documentary depict reality? Should it even try? Constanze Ruhm examines how reality and the construction of reality are different.

In the formerly male-dominated world of wrestling, a courageous woman struggles to be taken seriously as an athlete and performer.

Touching dramedy about the hardworking staff of a maternity ward and the secret past of one of the nurses.

"MADONNAS paints the astonishingly differentiated picture of a young woman who neglects her children." (taz)

This film places acts of resistance against National Socialism and current struggles in a historical continuity.

A Delhi woman's rocky road to her own cab license.

In search of her daughter, Agnes meets a bon vivant in the juggernaut that is Berlin.

As a pioneer of the Fluxus movement she revolutionized the concept of art and made history with contemporaries Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage.

A young woman ventures into the deadly beauty of the Chernobyl exclusion zone to save her father from prison.

This tale of two drifting souls who meet in the most unusual and ambiguous circumstances will capture your heart.

To escape all her obligations after finishing college, Aleksi moves back in with her parents at their winery and dives into dating life and parties.

The story of an orphan with albinism is told in an unusual blend of neorealism and magical realism.

A film about victory and defeat, on the chessboard and in life, and a cinematographic reflection on the struggle for female self-determination.

After completing MAELSTRÖM, Denis Villeneuve (Dune, THE 32nd AUGUST ON EARTH) retired for nearly a decade.

With camera angles reminiscent of paintings, up-and-coming star from Brazil Afonso Uchôa explores the beauty of everyday gestures and moments.

Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.

After the death of her grandmother Kati meets her biological mother Iris, who is just twice as old as she is and also a professional pickpocket.

Discover the extraordinary impact of a renowned author who revolutionized American literature by popularizing science fiction.

A doc about the representation and optimization of the vulva, anatomical myths, circumcisions, censorship and intimate modifications.

Benedetta Barzini was a sought-after model in the 1960s and a radical feminist in the 1970s. At 75, she had put her former life and career behind her.

Katja and Isabella want a child together - but the practical, legal and emotional hurdles threaten to drive the couple apart.

Hannah tells of the ups and downs in the love affair between herself and her vagina, which she has affectionately christened "Margeret".

A position-finding exercise: where does feminism stand today in relation to reproduction?

FELDARBEIT tells of an encounter between a young woman and her father which takes place on his asparagus farm to the west of Berlin.

Elfie Semotan, known for her sophisticated visual arrangements, is considered the "grande dame" of Austrian photography.

Sensitive coming-of-age drama about the visually impaired Monika (Rosalie Thomass), who is looking for her way to independence.

Wax portraits of an unknown woman are the focus of this medical-historical thriller which turns rigid 18th century role models on its head.

This film immerses us directly into the daily lives of three women who are trapped in violent, abusive relationships.

Germany's only trans* pastor.

Best friends Satu and Heidi preach that real love is not for sale as they go around sabotaging posh weddings in the Finnish archipelago.

1956: 13-year-old Johanna, a polio sufferer, uses her camera to document family life, her coming of age and what really happens behind closed doors.

This ambitious directorial debut chronicles lesbian lifestyles and social networking in Vienna in the 1950s and 60s.

In Denis Villeneuve's feature film debut, a young model narrowly escapes death and endeavors to give her life new meaning by becoming a mother.

Anja Salomonowitz portrays three women from her family who as children lived through WWII but whose memories of that time diverge.

During the Syrian war, two young Tunisian women were held as sex slaves by jihadists. The try to mend their lives.

Who are the (presumably) Eastern European panhandlers working the streets? Filmmaker Ulli Gladik finds out.

In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.

Ziva Postec was the editor of one of the most earth-shattering films in history: she spent six years editing the footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoa.

To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.

At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.

In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.

100 years ago, Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, choreographed a solo dance to deal with the traumatic accidental death of her children.

In the glistening light of southern France, the paths of the two women cross at seemingly opposite points in their lives.

Young art restorer Claudia makes ends meet thanks to her beloved grandmother's pension. When the old Nonna dies, Claudia has to come up with something. Because ...

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran.

French drama about love, economic dependence and gender roles.

Joy is a young woman living in Tel Aviv. She has a love-hate relationship with its casual sex scene.

After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.

Marianna is an 40-year-old woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a gender reassignment.

The South African public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela is taking on powerful opponents in politics.

A tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.

Joanna Crane lives a double life. During the day she works as fashion designer but during the night she is the high class sex worker China Blue.

A short camping trip turns into a deadly, Victorian Gothic horror weekend.

A cartoonist (Susanne Wolff) in a drunken haze leads viewers on a dark journey into a dangerous world.