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- DirectorBerit MadsenStarsSepideh HooshyarSedigheh HooshyarAsghar KabiriSepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations for a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh's ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her dream! She takes up the fight and teams up with the world's first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari.
- DirectorHassen FerhaniStarsMalikaSamir El HakimChawki AmariIn the middle of the Algerian Sahara, in her relay, a woman writes her History, she welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truckers, wandering beings and dreams, Her name is Malika.
- DirectorJannik SplidsboelStarsRamona MachoEriko MakimuraA documentary film about classical music, female agency and the cultural clashes and contradictions experienced by the Japanese classical pianist Eriko Makimura.
- DirectorPetr LomIts about three women fighting for social justice in an African-American church in Philadelphia. We follow head cook Mamie, former Black Panther Barbara and Pastor Renee at the soup kitchen of the Church of the Advocate. When a Mexican immigrant, Carmela, asks the church for sanctuary, she and her children are welcomed with open arms. Pastor Renee courageously defies the ICE immigration authorities in an act of civil disobedience. A documentary about compassion that invites us to forget about all borders, be they of race, nationality or religion.
- DirectorNing HuoGary ShihStarsMa XiangMa Xiang, a 14 year-old in Western China, does what hundreds of thousands of other ethnic Huis end up doing to support their family: he opens a noodle shop. NOODLE KID takes us on Ma's journey through his apprenticeship, stretching and pulling noodle-dough hundreds of times a day at his uncle's far-flung noodle dive. But Ma also dreams of being an imam, and at the heart of NOODLE KID is a compelling examination of religious life among the besieged Muslim Chinese minority.
- DirectorArno BitschyStarsChristinaAnandiLaurenThe film follows the life-journeys of two women living on the fringe in a rapidly changing country. A quest for identity, freedom and finding one's place in the world.
- DirectorLuca FerriStarsBianca Dolce MieleNatasha De CastoWalter Zombie AinardiA 39 year old transsexual sex worker goes about her daily life inside her home, where she receives her clients.
- DirectorLotta PetronellaAn island in the Baltic Sea was once a place where mentally disturbed women could find shelter and treatment.
- DirectorLulu RoosStarsSelma SunnivaJosefine FeldmannAlice Bier ZandenThe documentary follows the friends Selma and Josefine, who live together in Copenhagen. Selma plays the classical harp and struggles to return to everyday life after being admitted to the psychiatric ward, and Josefine dreams of breaking through as an actress, but is often struck by resistance or despair. The film explores their quest for meaning in life, and delves into the existential questions it entails. Through it all, they are young women with a great will and drive in life, who sometimes find it difficult to rest in the infinite presence of the present. Does perfection exist or are we as human beings on an eternal journey.