a ritual of sisterhood.

On the Other Side

November 2022 •French

The oldest Quebecois Benedictine convent open its gates to a documentary filmmaker for the first time. Observed up close, life behind its walls is busier than one would expect. About twenty cloistered nuns, most of them over 70, share their daily life with diligence and humor. A contemplative portrait of a community of sisterhood and solidarity emerges, punctuated by prayer, work and games evenings.

Black Angels

September 2022 •Swedish

Yours in Sisterhood

February 2018 •English

What might be revealed in the process of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism forty years later? Between 2015 and 2017, hundreds of strangers in communities all over the US were invited to read aloud and respond to letters from the 70s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine–the first mainstream feminist magazine in the US. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these spontaneous performances make us think critically about the past, present, and future of feminism.

Sweeties

July 2025 •French

Dona welcomes us inside the parisian erotic cabaret she works at. The hollow corridors act as a second stage where she and her colleagues get ready and share their thoughts.

At Eleven

March 2020 •Spanish

Isa and Zoe are eleven years old, they are best friends. Through their video diaries, they tell their perspectives on the transition from childhood to adolescence, the changes they are undergoing and their concerns when they stop being girls to become women.

Twinsters

July 2015 •English

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.

Sisterhood

September 2021 •Dutch

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's essay The second sex, filmmaker Sophie Dros (winner of the NFF Debut Competition 2017) talks to four women and a group of young girls. Together they go in search of universal stories; about dealing with expectations, empathy and connection, desires, fear, need for confirmation and losing control.

Marching in the Dark

March 2024 •Marathi

In a drought-struck region in India, suffering from climate change and a high suicide rate amongst farmers, a group of resilient women farmers, who recently lost their husbands, is coming together with a local psychologist to learn counselling and help others in grief.

Blood Sisters

April 2015 •Swedish

Julia and Johanna, from the high-rise flats of Rosengård in Malmö, inseparable for as long as they remember. Curled up beside each other at night, carrying equal memories of abduction and abuse in their home country Azerbaijan. In Blood Sisters we follow their journey from twin sisters in symbiosis to young women trying to stand on their own feet.

Quatro em Linha

Invalid date •Portuguese

Cosmovisions

October 2022 •Portuguese

In Southern Bahia, seven indigenous women invite to reflection, sharing their mythology, ancestry and paths to living well.

Days

May 2023 •French

Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and Harry Potter. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.

Two Girls and a Boat

March 2021 •Finnish

Twins Jade and Kaisa are going for a rowing trip on a beautiful Finnish summer day. Social media influencer Jade has actually something else in mind and the trip doesn’t end up as planned.

Summertime

August 2015 •French

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

His Three Daughters

September 2024 •English

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

Voltei!

January 2021 •Portuguese

Brazil, 2030. The sisters Alayr and Sabrina are hearing on the cell radio the judgment that could change the course of a country "without energy". They are surprised by Fátima, the sister who returns from the dead to fraternize on this historic night.

Hard Truths

December 2024 •English

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

Healer

July 2023 •English

A young woman grapples with the untimely death of her sister, seeking solace in an imagined reality where they grew up together.

Astarté

October 2023 •Spanish

Nora and Tamara are two sisters who survive in a working class neighborhood of the coast. In the midst of a troubled adolescence, Nora's fragile relationship with the world around her is affected by the criminal environment in which her older sister lives.

Bosom

May 2023 •English

When estranged sisters Jade and Amber attend their mother’s funeral, long-held resentments and painful secrets come out into the open.