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Genre: Women-Centered


32 Meters

Morteza Atabaki

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

Al Baraneya

Ashgan El-Hamus

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.

All of a Sudden

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

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

Ana, en passant

Fernanda Salgado

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

Ben’Imana

Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo

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

Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

Louise Weard

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

Clarissa

Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri

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

Clementine Orange

Lisa Forslund

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.

A Common Story

Anna Foglietta

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

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra Mia mera sti zoi tis tzo: kefalaio Faidra

Jacqueline Lentzou

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.

Dear Future Self Erzähl Mir Dein Morgen

Ella Cieslinski & Nina Wesemann

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.

The Diary of a Chambermaid Le journal d'une femme de chambre

Radu Jude

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.

The Difficult Bride

Rubaiyat Hossain

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

The Dreamed Adventure Das geträumte Abenteuer

Valeska Grisebach

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

Elephants in the Fog

Abinash Bikram Shah

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

Everytime

Sandra Wollner

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

Far From the Trees Lejos de los árboles

Meritxell Colell Aparicio

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

Forever Your Maternal Animal Siempre soy tu animal materno

Valentina Maurel

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.

Gentle Monster

Marie Kreutzer

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.

The Girl with the Leica

Alina Marazzi

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

A Good Little Soldier Un bon petit soldat

Stéphane Brizé

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

Head to Head Sar beh Sar

Ghasideh Golmakani

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.

I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming

Isabelle Stever

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.

I’ll Be Gone in June

Katharina Rivilis

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

The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer La ilusión de un verano sin fin

Alessandra Sanguinetti

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.

Isabel

Gabe Klinger

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.

Josephine

Beth de Araújo

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

The Liberation

Guy Nattiv

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.

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd

Tim Blake Nelson

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.

Liz Here Now

Sterling Macer Jr.

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

Love is the monster Amor es el monstruo

Neto Villalobos Brenes

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

Mouse

Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson

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

Nagi Notes Nagi Daiarī

Kōji Fukada

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

Nowhere to Lay My Eyes

Hong Sangsoo

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

Rehearsals for a Revolution

Pegah Ahangarani

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

Rose

Markus Schleinzer

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.

Sad Girlz Chicas tristes

Fernanda Tovar

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.

Saints Sants

Mikel Gurrea

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

Species Sanguine

Marion Le Corroller

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

Summer Drift Virages

Céline Carridroit, Aline Suter

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.

Tangles

Leah Nelson

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

Tell Everyone Kerro kaikille

Alli Haapasalo

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

Tender Loving Care

Mike Leigh

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

Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of Tricontinentale, lettre à ouvrir au cas où

Laura Cazador

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

The Watermelon Woman

Cheryl Dunye

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

What Belongs to Others Cudze rzeczy

Grzegorz Dębowski

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.

While We Are Here

Reveca Torres

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

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