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Sophie Hyde • 2013 • Australia • A teenager's mother undergoes a gender transition.

When her mother reveals her female to male gender transition, 16 year-old Billie is catapulted into radically new circumstances, moving in with her father and confined to visiting her mother on Tue...

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Ana Lily Amirpour • 2014 • USA • A surreal, stylish vampire western set in Bad City, an Iranian wasteland.

Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, wh...

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Alex Mar • USA• 2010 • Three young Americans have chosen the fringes of alternative religion

Chuck lives in the South Dakota badlands. While he and his wife struggle to make ends meet, they find meaning in their Lakota Sioux heritage, making great effort to preserve their rituals...

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Leyla Bouzid • 2015 • Tunisia

Farah struggles to pursue her singing career during a revolution.

While her parents have traditional aspirations for her, Farah is spending her summer performing in a political rock band, while carrying out a clandestine affair with one of her bandma...

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Maja Miloš • Serbia • 2012 • A raw portrait of disaffected youth in contemporary Serbia.

Teenage Jasna lives a life of discontent in suburban Belgrade. Seeking to escape her controlling mother and terminally ill father, Jasna runs wild with her classmates in a world of booze-fill...

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Afia Nathaniel • Pakistan • 2014 • A thrilling journey focalizing the social issue of child brides.

Allah Rakhi lives in the Hunza Valley with her husband, a local tribal leader, and their ten-year-old daughter Zainab. Violence has plagued their community for some time, due to a ...

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Sacha Polak • 2012 • Netherlands • A study of desire and sexuality told from a female perspective.

Hemel is a promiscuous young woman living in the Netherlands, her life governed almost exclusively by the pursuit of one night stands. Her father's increasingly serious relationship...

So Yong Kim • Canada-South Korea-USA • 2006 • Capturing the loneliness facing teenage immigrants.

Aimie’s family has recently immigrated from South Korea. They live in a bleak, wintry town in North America, their isolation underscored by the layers of snow that fall seemingly without end. Aimie...

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Eliza Hittman • 2013 • USA • Lila decides to lose her virginity during a summer in South Brooklyn.

A gauzy summer in South Brooklyn. Lila, an awkward adolescent girl, passes her time breaking into beach homes and tagging along on dates between her pretty friend Chiara and Chiara'...

Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret • Israel-France • 2006 • A magical-realist portrait of Tel Aviv today.

It feels like Batya’s life is falling apart. Things aren’t going well with her boyfriend, and she has a dead-end job as a catering waitress that brings her no satisfaction. Working a wedding recep...

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Anita Rocha da Silveira • Brazil • 2011 • School girls feel a morbid fascination with local murders.

Bia, Michele, Mariana and Renata live in an affluent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. Considered the cool girls at school, they are both priveleged and neglected by their parents, w...

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Valeria Golino • 2013 • Italy

Explores assisted suicide, a practice that remains illegal in Italy.

Irene lives in a small town along the Tyrrhenian Sea. While her friends and family believe she is student, Irene freelances as a clandestine euthanasia consultant. Using the prof...

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Anne Émond • 2011 • Canada • Two lovers share their deepest secrets over the course of one night.

Shot in bracing, intimate detail, and replete with philosophical musings, Nuit #1 reveals two characters adrift at the threshold of adulthood. Anne Émond's feature film debut premie...

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Annemarie Jacir • Palestine • 2008 • A portrait of a woman's determination to reclaim her birthright.

Sixty years after her grandparents' exile from Jaffa, Soraya feels something is not right. Departing Brooklyn for a homeland she has never known, she is greeted instead with susp...

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Byambasuren Davaa • Mongolia-Germany • 2005

Nansal is the eldest daughter of a nomadic family. One the way home from school one day, she happens upon a black and white puppy, naming him Zochor (Spot). Her father immediately refuses to allow the dog to stay, however, fearing that i...

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Lila Avilés • Mexico • 2018 • Eve labors invisibly while evoking the restlessness of her own dreams.

Eve works as a chambermaid at a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. Steeped in architectural splendor and sumptuous textures of privilege, Eve's surroundings are privvy to others, not ...

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Greta Schiller • USA • 2020 • A radical experiment of ecological restoration.

The Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Spain is one of the largest remaining tracts of wild nature in western Europe. Over the past centuries, it has fallen victim to exploitation—in the forms of hu...

Joanna Hogg • United Kingdom • 2007 • An exacting eye on the discontents of the British upper class.

Anna arrives at a stately villa in Tuscany to visit her longtime friend, Verena. Her husband, Alex, has canceled at the last minute, a minor inconvenience that irritates Verena nonetheless. Tho...

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Iram Haq • 2017 • Norway • Nisha is sent to live in a small village 200 miles from Islamabad.

Sixteen year-old Nisha lives in Oslo. At home, she adheres to the conservative values of her Pakistani family; with her friends, Nisha is an average Norwegian teenager. When Nisha's fat...

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Talya Lavie • Israel • 2014 • A humorous portrait about female camaraderie in the Israeli army.

Zohar and Daffi are best friends, stationed at a remote outpost while they complete their mandatory military service. They deflect from the tedium of their days by playing video games,...