Director: Helke Sander

Helke Sander portrays Irene, a single mother and worker in a washing machine factory. In everyday life, she doesn't put up with anything, neither the unequal treatment at work nor the sexual harassment by men. But one thing is clear: without solidarity among her fellow women, she will not stand a chance.

Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon

Fighting against all the odds of the woods, along with around 100 families, they cultivated the land for generations until a tidal surge hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh. Yet after the rain… They go out with spades and shovels to reclaim life again… Are You Listening!

Director: Darya Tsymbalyuk

A video essay about conversations with mum during the war.

Directors: Heather White, Jialing Zhang

Chinese factory worker-turned-activist takes his fight against toxic chemicals used by global electronics brands from his hospital bed to the international stage.

Directors: Dara Kell, Christopher Nizza

Three young adults in South Africa take their government to court to save their shantytown from destruction.

Director: Mia Ma

One day, Julie heard voices threatening her. Doctors gave her electroshocks, marabouts tried to exorcise her, she ingested many medicines, drank a lot of potions, spent days in the hospital and long hours locked up at home trying to forget the past and imagine the future.

Director: Maryam Tafakory

A love song that would never pass through the censors, Mast-del is about forbidden bodies and desires, both inside and outside post-revolution Iranian cinema.

Director: Alanis Obomsawin

No Address explores why many young native people leave their communities, what their hopes are, and what they actually find in a big city.

Director: Tatiana Mazú González

How to film what we are forbidden to experience? How to state what we cannot say? How to record the sound of what does not sound? What place do women occupy in a mining town?

Director: Dan Dansen

What if we lived in a society in which people who harmed and people who were harmed could heal simultaneously?

Authors: Elena Chirila, Ana Gurdiș

A woman’s journey towards liberation and healing through the recollections of her younger self.

Filmmakers: Vision Machine Film Project

Using their own forbidden history as a case study, the Indonesian filmmakers trace the development of contemporary globalization from its roots in colonialism to the present.

Director: Hanna Heilborn

A school bus is withdrawn from a suburb of Milan, for no clear reason. By this seemingly small event, “The Village of Roses” unfolds something greater and portrays the structural oppression of the Roma minority, in Italy and the rest of the world.

Magda Maria Malinowska

Protests against tightening of abortion law prove that women pose a real threat to prevailing power relations. However, this is not the only manifestation of their strength in recent years. The Women's Strike Continues shows that women's resistance in Poland has its history.

Director: Sasha Wortzel

In this meditation on community, gentrification, and erasure, Stonewall veteran and trans activist Sylvia Rivera takes up residency on the Hudson River piers with a group of HIV-positive New Yorkers, as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.