Genre: Women Centered

The lives of three women living in working-class Mumbai are explored in this soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and womanhood.

A mother (Renate Reinsve) is called to school to account for her six-year-old’s behavior. But who can say with certainty what really happened?

This stunning early 20th century tale recounts the life of Modesta, a rebellious Sicilian born into poverty who believes she’s destined for more.

An actress delves into the life of Suzanne Césaire, merging reality and memory to reveal the complexities of the pioneering writer and activist.

A beautifully conceived and profoundly multilayered portrait of a Korean-born Dutch adoptee who reconnects with her birth parents after years of separation.

A group of Egyptian girls form a street theater troupe as both a creative outlet and an act of defiance. But dreams eventually collide with reality.

What appears to be a simple home-care assignment turns into a supernatural identity crisis for an Irish nurse in this terrifying folk-horror film.

Karoline, a pregnant factory worker in post-WW1 Copenhagen, accepts a job at an adoption agency where she uncovers a terrible secret.

A young scientist struggling to fit in in a new country uses her experimental skin-grafting research to get vengeance on those who wronged her.

When a young girl falls ill with a strange fever, she is sent to the foot of her island’s volcano, where she encounters a surreal world between dreams and reality.

Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

A single mother working as an archivist at a local paper is drawn into an investigation when a Soviet nuclear missile crashes near her Lapland town.

In this real-life docudrama, a woman in China desperate to save her marriage hires a professional “mistress dispeller” to break up her husband’s affair.

Director Sharifi shares her own story alongside images of Iranian women, past and present, to form a vivid and collective act of resistance.

A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but her new domesticity takes a surreal turn. In this penetrating, funny, and outrageous look at the realities of being an American mom, Marielle Heller has crafted a wildly entertaining tale of female struggle and strength.

On an empty road in the night, Shula stumbles across her uncle’s dead body. As his funeral begins, family secrets prompt a reckoning.

Young climate activists fight to save the Finnish forest in this beautifully photographed, bittersweet ode to youthful dreams and our natural world.

A filmmaker pieces together a picture of her mother, a renowned Chicago-born photojournalist, attempting to close the gap between herself and the woman she never knew.

Seen through the eyes of 7-year-old Rita, a mother (Paz Vega) struggles to protect her children in this poignant look at innocence and violence in the home.

In Almodóvar’s latest exquisite look at women’s inner lives, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star as old friends whose relationship is put to the test.

Newly widowed Santosh is compelled to take her husband’s old job on the police force, where she’s thrust into an intriguing murder investigation.

Wandering in search of her mother’s homeland, a woman forms an unlikely bond with workers in an abandoned factory in this mystical road movie.

A filmmaker immerses his daughter in the magic of cinema, where chaos meets fantasy. This creates a deep bond that will sustain them through good and bad.

A prickly corporate consultant is at her wit’s end after her hippie father disguises himself as a life coach in an effort to reconnect in this offbeat comedy.

In a small industrial town, two 13-year-old girls enroll in a modeling school where they are confronted with extreme, impossible beauty standards.

Set amid the majestic Italian Alps, this intimate drama chronicles a year in the life of a young war bride and her sisters in the wake of WWII.

Three rebellious friends trapped at a remote New Zealand institution for delinquent girls grasp at freedom in this riveting coming-of-age tale.

This documentary explores the incredible life of “Godmother of Fitness” Deborah Szekely, and the trials and triumphs of being a woman entrepreneur.

A group of art students reckon with a sudden, inexplicable loss over the course of a long Icelandic summer day.

In this surprising, poignant documentary, an Italian astrologer promises her clients happiness if they follow the stars on a special birthday trip.

Part courtroom thriller and part chronicle of families in crisis, this riveting doc follows three women fighting the battle for reproductive rights.