Golden Gate Girls (2013)

Alex (Leah Lauren) is a young actress trying to make it in Hollywood. Her friend Sam (Ivana Paige) shows her the ropes by taking her to parties and introduce her to that world.

High school student Sohee starts job training at a call center, but she faces pressure of greedy company. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee starts to follow traces to reveal the truth.

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

The story of an aspiring young female chef, June, as she navigates the cutthroat world of high end cooking.

As the U.S. planned to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September 2021, Canadian-Afghan filmmaker and journalist Brishkay Ahmed was filming IN THE RUMBLING BELLY OF MOTHERLAND. Revealing the ongoing dangers for women reporters, and the extraordinary risks they take, this brave film provides an in-depth look into Zan TV, Kabul’s female-led news agency. A professional journalist herself, Ahmed documents both the harrowing and inspiring work of young, female journalists over the course of the two-year lead up to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Following parallel news stories as they unfold – two sets of national elections as well as ongoing U.S.-Taliban peace talks – the film reveals the daily hurdles Afghan female reporters and media staff face, underscoring the existential current events that threaten both Zan TV as a media outlet and the livelihoods of the women at its heart.

Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

An eastern and Feminine reinterpretation of the 7days of creation through tattoo, a primeval art itself.

Michelle needs a break. A computer programmer who's fed up by what she sees as the greed and idiocy of the Internet, Michelle requests and is granted a monthlong sabbatical from her job in this 2001 independent film by Maria Breaux.

Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. But when her estranged father turns up out of nowhere, Georgie is forced to confront reality.

In this short, surreal, painterly comedy, Laura escapes from her superstitious worries by floating out at sea on her bed. On a sunny Friday 13th, all her troubles return.

OUT OF DARKNESS: THE MINE WORKERS' STORY is a documentary by Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, USA). Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of UMWA history and of the Pittston strike of 1989-90.

Follows a woman grappling with the meaning of love and commitment in the face of an uncertain and tumultuous world. A sunny-day panic attack and a wholly new take on the wedding film, the movie follows her over the course of her “non-wedding” day.

With quiet intelligence and wry humour, retired documentary filmmaker Kathleen Shannon takes us through the arc of her life and career. Beginning with childhood, moving through her formative years, to her overwhelming desire to give women a chance to tell their stories, this film paints a vibrant portrait of one woman who blazed the way. It's a story of struggle, persistence, and success… and of course, of the NFB's Studio D.

Sarita, a young mother, is at a turning point of her career. Will her ambition and hard work pay off, or will the four walls of the kitchen confine her as is expected by the society she lives in?

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

They are in their thirties but live just as they did in their twenties. They are in love with love but, in their search, they tear each other apart, wandering from ex-girlfriend to ex-girlfriend, from relationship to relationship.

Antônio é um senhor humilde, que mora numa área rural. Quando sua esposa fica doente, ele decide levá-la de carroça até sua comadre benzedeira, e percorrendo esse caminho debaixo de chuva ele reflete sobre a sua vida, os problemas com álcool, os maus tratos com a esposa e sua própria condição enquanto pessoa.

Forced to become a mother, Helena plans to run away with her boyfriend and abandon her son. However, on the day of the escape, the boy gives up and leaves her alone, desolate. Determined to keep on the run, Helena embarks on her theory that her entire life has been a lie and she has never had a child.

A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.

In a near future when women rule the world, a politician visits a "Grooming School" to snag a trophy husband, but her boring date takes a turn when her Stepford-y match stops pretending to be something he's not.