Eefje Depoorter is an e-sports journalist for global gaming events like League of Legends. Like so many other women in the gaming industry, she is confronted with online hate speech on a daily basis. Fatima-Zohra Ait El Maâti’s brings together muslim girls in Brussels to share concerns and problems. Together they build a safe house for their community. Physical abuse at home or in the streets, sexist …

As a space scientist at ESA (European Space Agency), Angelique Van Ombergen strives for more research on the female body in space. Being in a two-mother-family, she has to choose between concentrating on that ambition or on a fertility process? Musician Charlotte Adigéry couldn’t have chosen a worse moment to have her baby. Desperately looking for other examples in the music industry, she embarks …

In order to tackle feminicide, Amsterdam based Kaouthar Darmoni advocates for changes in criminal law. Gender neutral laws hold in place the world’s blind spots. At the same time, Kaouthar helps women to reset their bodies through Eastern dancing. Mieke Van Hove is a domestic help. It is one of the few jobs that enable women to combine raising kids with work, especially in a single-parent family. …

Mieke, Kaouthar, Eefje, Fatima-Zohra, Angelique, Charlotte and Hanne. On a daily basis, they strive for a world that better fits their bodies, work, well-being, love. By lining up their fights, this series aims to make visible how our true power lies in the combination of so many fights. And in the solidarity with men. The fight for equality is for everyone, regardless of gender.

Hanne Gaby Odiele is an international topmodel. At the age of 17, she discovered being intersex while reading a teenage magazine. Only at that moment she understood the surgeries she had during her childhood. Today she uses her topmodel status to stop cosmetic operations on intersex children. Charlotte Adigéry is a Belgian singer and musician with Caribbean roots. On the verge of her great breakthrough, …

Seguridad, directed by Tamara Segura, offers an intimate, autobiographical examination of familial entanglements rooted in post-revolutionary Cuba. Born on December 2—the Day of the Cuban Armed Forces—Segura was once promoted as “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a militia publicity stunt. After relocating to Canada on a film scholarship and distancing herself from her alcoholic father Jorge, her return …

Nothing special happened in the People's Republic of Poland on September 27. The weather forecast predicted moderate cloudiness. More than 1,600 citizens were born, about 600 died. Day like every day... One Day in People’s Poland takes an ordinary date and turns it into a revealing portrait of daily life under a highly controlled state. By weaving together archival files, inspection reports, newsreels, …

Violated Letters explores the hidden inner life of socialist Poland through personal correspondence intercepted by the state’s security apparatus. Between 1945 and 1989, specialized units of Poland’s secret police read, cataloged, and reported on millions of private letters — letters written by ordinary people about daily life, love, anger, fear, ambition, and resistance. The film brings these intimate …

On September 8, 1968, during a harvest festival at the central stadium in Warsaw, Ryszard Siwiec set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His act of defiance, witnessed by thousands, was immediately suppressed and erased from public memory by the communist authorities. Hear My Cry reconstructs this forgotten act of resistance through meticulous archival research. …

Lebanon at the end of the 80s. Ghassan Salhab’s debut follows Khalil as he returns to Beirut under a new identity, forced to confront the old friends and comrades he left behind following his faked death a decade earlier. Phantom Beirut is a haunting exploration of the official silences and collective amnesias that stalk the lives of those who live through conflict.

The Swallows of Kabul is a powerful animated drama adapted from Yasmina Khadra's acclaimed novel, set in Kabul during the summer of 1998 under Taliban rule. Young lovers Zunaira and Mohsen dream of a future free from violence, oppression, and religious extremism, while prison guard Atiq struggles to care for his terminally ill wife Mussarat. Following one tragic, impulsive act, the lives of both couples … More

How did a group of humble factory workers become a phenomenal sports success story and the pride of an entire nation? Julian Faraut's (John McEnroe: In The Realm of Perfection) ferociously innovative and visually stunning The Witches of the Orient tells the tale of the Japanese women's volleyball team's thrilling rise, unbelievable 258 games winning streak, and eventual Olympic gold at the 1964 Tokyo … More

Spanning eight decades and four continents, filmmaker and editor Mary Stephen embarks on a personal investigation into her English surname. It is not intended to be a narcissistic exploration, but rather an effort to uncover the dissonances and contradictions in our heritage that, despite our all too human desire for harmony and continuity, are the fundamental elements that shape us. Drawing from … More

The Cordobazo is a pivotal moment in Argentina's history, marking a fierce and transformative resistance against the military dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía in 1969. This documentary traces the powerful civil disobedience of the people of Córdoba, where workers and students united to challenge oppressive labor laws and the dictatorship's growing authoritarianism. Through striking footage and … More

Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. Marcielle (Tielle), 13, lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. Prompted by her mother's words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by "finding a good man" on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly … More

Neirud is a compelling documentary that unearths the lost legacy of a mysterious woman who once defied social norms and cultural boundaries. When filmmaker Fernanda Faya discovers that her late aunt—known only as Neirud—had a secret past as Gorilla Woman, a controversial wrestling persona in an underground all-female Brazilian circus troupe, she embarks on a personal journey through forgotten archives … More

In western Montana, recently divorced Lue lives with his mother and keeps to a steady, quiet routine: his maintenance job, working his family stand at the farmers market, fly fishing on the river, and midnight outings for karaoke at the local bar. He lives with his widowed mother, Song, whose efforts to find him another wife are unwelcome and increasingly difficult to avoid. Song worries that she … More

The secrets and impunity of the Franco dictatorship in the former Spanish Guinea continue to be present in the Spanish democracy. The Franco regime managed to hide its crimes and torture against the National Liberation Movement of Equatorial Guinea at the end of the 1950s. One of its main leaders, Acacio Mañe, was arrested and made to disappear. Now his family demands justice and reparation from Africa. … More