Millie (Ana Scotney), an architecture student from New Zealand, lands a competitive internship with a prestigious firm in New York. But after telling everyone she knows about the opportunity, she suddenly suffers a panic attack as her plane is about to take off, and misses her flight. In a desper...

Saigon, 1990s. San, a transgender sex worker, longs for the gender-affirming surgery that will allow her to live as her true self. Determined to help her realize that dream, her lover Nam risks everything by entering the underground world of dog-cage fighting. But as their hopes become entangled ...

An unexpected kiss awakens buried memories for Shu-yi (Ariel Lin), a mother struggling to hold her family together despite her own unhappiness. As her rebellious son Han (Jimmy Liu) becomes captivated by the enigmatic Xue-jin (Wu Ke-xi), Shu-yi rekindles her own connection with the same woman, dr...

Bursting with the colorful street style and music of Nairobi’s vibrant youth culture, RAFIKI is a tender love story between two young women in a country that still criminalizes homosexuality. Kena and Ziki have long been told that “good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives” – but they yearn for ...

Spending every evening in a new and mysterious stranger’s bed, capricious transient Nore (Dana Herfurth) agrees to move into a spare room eagerly offered to her by Jonna (Luna Jordan), a reserved medical student. Against the odds, this unlikely pair finds solace in each other and fall into an int...

In 1994 post-martial law Taiwan, college student Chi-wei (Ling-Wei Lee) begins to question the culture of conformity surrounding her. Drawn into a student movement resisting the repression of creative freedom, she becomes entangled with Ching (Hsiao-Fei Yeh) and her boyfriend Kuang (Roy Chang), t...

Elaha (Bayan Layla) is a young Kurdish-German woman torn between the unconditional love for her family and her own aspirations in life. Although she cares most about having a good time with her girlfriends and taking care of her younger brother, she has to fight patriarchy while being the perfect...

Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle (Eva Lobau) leaves home to start her teaching career, armed with alternative methods and bright-eyed optimism. On her first day of classes, she gives an ambitious speech, saying that she wants to offer a “breath of fresh air” to the school. Instead, Melani...

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family’s orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari,...

Chester, a cartoonist, and Sonny, a TV host - are a long-term, committed romantic couple. When Sonny introduces the idea of opening up their relationship, Chester begins paying for sex, forcing him to face his issues with intimacy and romance in the process.
 
Based on the best-selling graphic no...

Summer vacation. Two teenage sisters, Marina and Luna, travel from Costa Rica to Panama to look for their absent father. While dealing with frictions that arise between them, they find space to explore their desires, new friendships, lovers, and skateboarding, on a journey toward emancipation whe...

After transferring from a downtown Kyiv high school, Tonia (Alina Cheban) joins a gang while searching for a place where she truly belongs. Initially attracted to Zhurik, she also finds herself drawn to Sania and eventually becomes entangled in a secret love triangle. But as her abusive past resu...

Feeling confined by her well-mannered suburban environment, the pubescent Rita (Barbara Osika) gradually attempts to test and break the expectations made of her. As she skips class to pursue her infatuation for a local bus driver as well as her own desires, her disapproving parents and classmates...

When Irene (Franziska Weisz) takes a job as a night porter at a remote Austrian hotel, she learns that the young woman who previously held her position disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner radically upends genre tropes and preempts the resurgence of folk ho...

Afflicted with multiple sclerosis, Christine (Sylvie Testud) makes a pilgrimage to the holy site of Lourdes in hopes of a miracle. Among thousands of ailed visitors, she proceeds through the well-oiled machinery of the religious tourist destination until the unbelievable happens: she is suddenly ...

Seventeen-year-old Prudence (Léa Seydoux) is alone and adrift until she meets Marilyne, a high school misfit who introduces her to the Rungis race circuit where souped-up mopeds and muscle bikes illegally race each other. Fascinated by Reynald, Franck and the other guys from the Rungis clique, Pr...

Days after giving birth to a stillborn baby, Robin (Frieda Barnhard) starts to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she looks to donate it instead. But as the challenge to find someone who will accept her milk becomes increasingly difficult, the growing number of bottles start to overtake her f...

In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only jus...

There has been an invasion. Eami lost her own kind, and so she started flying. The Asoja, the bird-god-woman of the native Ayoreo Totobiegosode culture, brings the memories of the past, present and future. She was a tiger, a plant, a jaguar. Today, she is Eami, a five-year-old girl whose name mea...

Born seventh after six other girls, Fidela (Paola Sini) is condemned to be the witch of her Sardinian village. Shunned from men and cursed to never have a child of her own, she gives birth to all the other women's children. When Bastiana, an illegitimate seventh daughter is entrusted to her, she ...

A writer summons four actresses to rehearse her play in the country. Over the course of a week, the girls begin to measure each other through the material. As the creative process gains momentum, they share their yearnings and personal stories. Soon a summer story unfolds about princesses, horses...

Nana (Happy Salma), the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner, values her safety and material comforts but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love who was murdered years ago during the Indonesian Revolution. Forced to confront her husband’s blatant infidelity, Nana makes...

Diane (Brigitte Roüan) loves her husband Philippe (Patrick Chesnais) dearly. She is a tender and caring mother to her two children and has a fulfilling job working for a publishing house in Paris. Then one day she meets Emilio (Boris Terral), a young and handsome hydraulic engineer twenty years h...

Gyuri Byun's groundbreaking Korean documentary centers on two working class mothers, Nabi and Vivian. Like many in South Korea, where there is a distinct lack of legal protections for queer communities and gay marriage remains illegal, neither women gave much thought to LGBTQ+ rights or its growi...