Ladies on Top (Tilik) (2018)

En una casa de verano, cuatro mujeres esperan la llegada de sus maridos desde Estocolmo. Alrededor de una taza de café, evocan sus experiencias conyugales. La más joven de ellas, que espera a su novio, las escucha hablar de sus fracasos, de su amargura y de sus desilusiones.

A finales del siglo XIX, el capitán Hanson, des del puerto de Singapur, prepara una expedición de salvamento a bordo del barco Batavia Queen. Su amante, Laura, conoce la localización del barco perteneciente a su anterior marido, un barco naufragado que oculta una carga de perlas poco comunes. Todo se agravará cuando el barco, en plena travesía, se ve sorprendido por la erupción del volcán Krakatoa.

Basada en la novela homónima de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), cuenta la historia de un oficial de la marina mercante que navega en el Patna, un barco de tercera categoría que transporta peregrinos musulmanes. Durante una tormenta y con el barco a punto de hundirse, Jim y el resto de la tripulación huyen del barco abandonando a los pasajeros. Pero, para su desgracia, cuando llegan a la costa descubren que el Patna ha sido rescatado.

Isla de Java, 1942, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El mayor británico Jack Celliers llega a un campo de prisioneros japonés, dirigido por el estricto capitán Yonoi. El coronel John Lawrence, que posee un profundo conocimiento de la cultura japonesa, y el sargento Hara, brutal y simplón, serán testigos de la lucha de voluntades entre dos hombres de orígenes muy diferentes que están trágicamente destinados a enfrentarse…

Yakarta, año 1965. Al inexperto reportero australiano Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) se le presenta la oportunidad de su vida cuando lo mandan como enviado especial a Indonesia. En el turbulento escenario de la insurrección comunista contra el presidente Sukarno, conoce a Billy Kwan (Hunt), un enigmático fotógrafo, y a Jill Bryant (Weawer), una atractiva mujer que trabaja en la embajada inglesa.

En 1953, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) se traslada desde California al campus de la prestigiosa y estricta universidad de Wellesley en Nueva Inglaterra para enseñar historia del arte. En plena postguerra, Watson espera que sus estudiantes, las mejores y las más brillantes del país, aprovechen las oportunidades que se les presentan para emanciparse. Sin embargo, poco después de su llegada, descubre que la prestigiosa institución está anclada en la tradición y el conformismo.

Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

En la era antigua, los pequeños Hobbits, amantes de la paz, son esclavizados por los Hombres Java, una raza de jinetes de dragones caníbales. El joven Hobbit Goben debe unirse a fuerzas de sus vecinos gigantes, los humanos, para liberar a su gente y vencer a sus enemigos.

Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.

Tennis star and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King won a total of 12 Grand Slam titles, but the biggest match of her career took place in 1973 against former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig who declared that, even at the age of 55, he could beat any woman in the world.

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Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A life with a rhythm of its own, an independent daily life marked nonetheless by exile.

Satirical artist and art director, Suzanne Heintz, adopted her fake family more than 15 years ago to challenge persisting stereotypes about women's lives.

Dutch ice freediver Kiki Bosch swims in the world's coldest waters without a wetsuit as therapy for a trauma she experienced, and to inspire others.

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Short documentary on female workers at school, made by a high school student.

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