Genre: Women-Centered

This witty observational film follows two Turkish women who set out to start the first-ever ladies-only sharp-shooting competition in their village.

When a developer offers to buy her family’s land in a village outside Cairo, pregnant Amal dreams of a very different kind of life in the big city.

Marie-Lou, the director of an elder care facility, is on the verge of burnout when a chance encounter sparks a deep, transcendent friendship.

Following her grandmother’s death in Paris, a young woman travels to Brazil where she encounters her exact double in this lyrical animated drama.

In this stunning, intimate portrait of defiance and forgiveness, a Rwandan genocide survivor’s convictions are tested by her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy.

Izzy’s partner’s transition sparks her descent into TERF madness in the latest chapter of this unflinching shot-on-video magnum opus.

Adapting Mrs. Dalloway to modern Lagos, this evocative drama captures post-colonial class tensions, memory, and desire across a single momentous day.

Over 24 hours, an unlikely connection forms between a woman catfished by her penpal lover and the prisoner on parole who isn’t who he claimed to be.

In this elegiac, emotionally rich drama, empty-nesters Erika and Mauro must navigate relationships and desires anew, as they face an unfamiliar future.

Jo, an angst-ridden 15-year-old, makes an instant connection with new student Phaedra in this inventive slice-of-life drama of cosmic proportions.

In this keenly observed drama, a filmmaker returns home to lead a workshop with a childhood friend, but the exercise illuminates the growing distance between them.

In this potent satire, a Romanian nanny working in France grows weary of her employer’s exploitation while rehearsing a play that echoes her plight.

A privileged bride’s reality starts to unravel as traditional pre-wedding beauty rituals begin to elicit strange visions and physical reactions.

Searching for her missing friend Said in a Bulgarian border town, archeologist Veska unearths a secret criminal network in this engrossing, slow-burn epic.

A Kinnar matriarch is torn between duty and a secret love when one of the daughters from her community disappears under suspicious circumstances.

A year after a tragic loss, three people united in grief search for healing during an island vacation where memory and reality blur.

A sound artist capturing recordings across Peru is pursued by the ghosts of her family’s legacy of exile in this journey through memory and identity

Home from studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to find her family in disarray and feels compelled to help those who have no desire to be saved.

Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) must protect her son after her husband is accused of an unspeakable crime in this thriller about trust and survival.

1936 Paris. Pioneering photojournalist Gerda Taro spends a final day before returning to the Spanish Civil War, as past and present intertwine.

In this tense drama, HR manager Carla is given an impossible directive: create a supportive, human-centered workplace while casting off the slough.

A filmmaker returns home to Iran to shoot a new project—one in which male actors are costumed in headscarves and skirts—in this razor-sharp comedy.

In this bold, empathic drama, a couple is pushed to the brink when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upends their lives, throwing their partnership into confusion.

An introspective German exchange student searches for meaning and kinship over a transformative year in newly post-9/11 New Mexico.

Filmed over 25 years, this profound study of female intimacy tracks two Argentine cousins as their days of adolescent wonder give way to sobering adulthood.

Feeling stymied by the world of fine-dining, sommelière Isabel sets out to open her own natural wine bar in this effervescent love letter to São Paulo.

Channing Tatum delivers a knockout performance as a father struggling to manage the fallout after his young daughter witnesses a brutal assault.

Rita (Carrie Coon), a mother escaping a harrowing past, finds solace in a female empowerment cult led by the charismatic Ricki (Lily James). But when Rita’s daughters arrive, she must choose between the freedom she’s found and the life she left behind.

A mesmerizing Amanda Seyfried stars as a writing teacher whose relationship with an Oklahoma prisoner offers both a hope of escape in this riveting drama.

Aunjanue Ellis Taylor mesmerizes as a devoted caregiver shielding two white children from domestic dysfunction in this deeply affecting 1960s-set drama.

In a tropical dystopia ruled by fear and inequality, a woman trying to right wrongs with her young granddaughter faces dangerous choices.

The latest gem from the talented Chicago filmmaking duo (Ghostlight) follows teenager Minnie, who forms a complicated relationship with her best friend’s mother.

In a bucolic village, a rekindled friendship between former sisters-in-law gently unspools much unspoken longing and mourning within the community.

Sanghee arrives at a windswept Jeju Island to reconnect with her mother in this gentle rumination on aging, parenthood, and artistic expression.

Iranian filmmaker Pegah Ahangarani traces over 40 years of her country’s tumultuous history through five personal portraits of resistance.

When an unknown soldier arrives in a pious 17th century village staking claim to land there, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity force a reckoning.

The bond between teen best friends is tested when they react in drastically different ways to a traumatic event in this intimate coming-of-age.

While reluctantly caring for her dying mother, Lali finds a new purpose when she joins a band of misfit thieves who steal religious artifacts.

Cutthroat colleagues and strange skin conditions offer competing crises for medical intern Margot in this visceral body horror.

Swiss watch technician Johanna sets out to restore her beloved VW bug and return to the tracks where she once raced in this celebration of trans identity.

A young queer woman grapples with her vibrant mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in this charming and deeply moving animated memoir.

Finland, 1898. Banished to an island colony for troubled women, Amanda finds friendship and romance—but betrayal pushes her toward madness.

Legendary British filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a profoundly moving story—filled with humor, hardship, and compassion—about how we look after each other.

This electrifying film essay tracks the short life of film critic Michèle Firk and the anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s that she joined.

A video clerk unearths the hidden history of a 1930s Black actress in Cheryl Dunye’s landmark queer comedy.

When thief Kasia discovers a man’s body while on a job, a scam to collect his life insurance money becomes something more in this elusive mystery.

Beautifully expanding notions of disability, filmmaker Reveca Torres engages with iconic disabled artists Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse.