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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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Mariette Monpierre • France • 2011 • A deeply personal coming-of-age story set in Guadalupe.

Bernadette has done everything for her daughter. Elza, the first college graduate in the family, has just completed a masters degree in Paris; rather than seeking stable employment, howe...

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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...

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Edoardo De Angelis • Italy • 2016

Daisy and Viola are conjoined twins. Sharing an apartment with their parents in a run-down neighborhood of Naples, they have spent their childhood singing at weddings and parties, where audiences are as transfixed by their condition as they are t...

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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'...

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Jayro Bustamate • 2015 • Guatemala-France • A Mayan girl lives at the foot of an active volcano

Immersing the spectator in the rhythms of a vanishing world amidst ever-present threats of geological rupture and encroaching modernity, Ixcanul navigates the precariousness of female i...

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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...

Directed by Santiago Mitre • 2015 • Argentina

Starring Dolores Fonzi, Paulina examines a radical form of feminism in Argentina.

Lise Birk Pedersen • Denmark, U.S. • 2011

Before Nashi, teenage Masha had a pretty average middle-class life in Russia. At 16 she joined the democratic, anti-fascist and anti-oligarch-capitalist political youth movement, working her way up to leadership roles and eventually becoming the host o...

Roberta Marques • Brazil • 2011 • An evocative portrait of female adolescence at the margins of society

Rânia lives with her mother in the slums of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil. Though she dreams of being a dancer, she has to work hard to survive—after school she juggles multiple jobs, incl...

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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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Matías Piñeiro • 2016 • Argentina-USA • Blends the whimsy of youth with the cadences of theatrical text.

Blending the whimsy of youth with the jocular cadences of theatrical text, Hermia & Helena weaves an ever-expanding web of relations entangling a young woman as she comes into ...