After coaching her friend to demand a refund for a takeout order that arrived wrong and three hours late, a woman descends into an existential spiral sprung from the endless “sorrys” she and other women feel compelled to offer.
Alex Getlin
as Ava
Kaylee Macknight
as Claire
Coco Jourdana
as Grocery Woman
Lori Lusted
as Woman on Street
Josh Levinson
as Man
The arrival of Ira’s estranged biological mother at her adoptive home triggers a painful confrontation between three women bound by love, regret and painful search for closure.
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
A couple is making a sextape, but she has a question, and he doesn't know the answer...
Christine attends her first and last prom accompanied by Martin Fredericksen
A pregnant woman travels along the countryside to move into a house by her own, hopping to reconnect with the inner nature of her current body.
A discontented housewife self-medicates as her husband assumes control of their daughter's engagement preparations.
Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?
Gala is preparing for the firefighter exam when she gets her period accompanied by severe menstrual pain. Together with her father Alfonso, they must figure out how to manage the situation.
A solitary young woman living with her dog becomes the target of neighbourhood slander. Her sudden suicide—and the earlier discovery of a dead foetus—fuels harsher speculation. Two neighbouring families, a young couple and an elderly father with his bedridden daughter, confront their own fears while discussing her fate. Her ambiguous life and death expose a society quick to judge independent women yet capable of rare empathy.
Drawn by a strange ringing, a weary writer slips out of her life to follow it through the city, encountering strangers whose fleeting, intimate moments stir something lost in her. Phantasma reflects on the cards we’re given and what we choose to do with them.
A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.
Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
The matriarch of a traditional Turkish family tries to stop her eldest daughter’s divorce, only to confront the shifting values within her own home.
Rosa and Maria are mother and daughter who have a troubled relationship. Despite not showing affection, Rosa makes courageous decisions to ensure that her daughter, Maria, follows a different path from her own in all areas of life. The movie takes us on an exploration of the lives of two generations of black women from the same family, revealing a plot of love, conflicts and mutual understanding.
Three episodes. In the first, Aurora lives in a luxurious apartment. Among some workers called to her house, she recognizes an old lover, who returns to courting her, but then empties her house. In the second, a boy released from reform school discovers that his mother is actually his father: a transvestite. In the third, a newsagent, suspecting her husband, who constantly pretends to be ill, is cheating on her, places a video camera in her room. She records his sexual encounters on a videotape that she sells at newsstands. In his directorial debut, Corsicato demonstrates a sharp and poetic talent (he was Almodovar's assistant) in creating three portraits of women that are also portraits of his city, Naples.
A teenager with a "non-normative" body questions how to fit into a misogynistic society, seeking male validation even through derogatory comments from men.
Alannah and Amara are a married couple in their early thirties, finally ready to start a family. After a chaotic kids' birthday party full of unfiltered parenting confessions, their dream of having a child becomes stronger than ever. Their journey through fertility options is funny, messy, and deeply human from anonymous donor apps to their gay best friends, David and Tom, offering to help. What follows is a series of awkward, hilarious attempts at home insemination (yes, with science goggles) and the very real emotional ups and downs of trying to conceive. Each negative test hits hard, but support from Amara's mum, Joy, and the couple's rock-solid partnership keeps them going.