04.10 | 17:00
18+
Moving between documentary, fantasy, horror, comedy, and sensual reverie, these films enter spaces where private experience becomes strange, funny, frightening, and liberating. Across generations and borders, women confront social expectations, family ties, shame, illness, loneliness, grief, and patterns that keep repeating. Tender, raw, surreal, and defiant, Ladies First offers a vivid collection of stories about being seen, being trapped, and finding unexpected ways to break free.
Running time 80 min.
Singapore | 03:58 | 2025
When the hands of the cuckoo clock strike, a wooden doll awakens to yet another cycle. Worlds shift, crumble, and rebuild as she searches desperately for a way out, yet time always rewinds before freedom can be reached. White Carousel is a 2D animated short that blends retro charm and dreamlike imagery in an allegorical exploration of memory, fate, and the haunting desire to escape endless repetition.
Poland | 04:40 | 2026
Someone experiences the weirdest hair appointment in their life.
China | 09:09 |2026
Yesterday afternoon,Mei went to do abortion. The appearance of a sorceress planted a seed of terror in her heart.
Not Specified | 02:29 | 2025
Running Snake is a hand-drawn, frame-by-frame 2D animation tracing desire, shame, and loneliness from a young woman’s perspective. In a world where female self-expression is silenced, it transforms secrecy into a delicate visual meditation on liberation, intimacy, and the courage to be seen.
Slovenia | 07:35 | 2026
An animated documentary that, through an intimate conversation between a daughter and a mother, searches for understaning and explores family bonds. The film reveals the inner conflict between freedom and sacrifice. Gradually, walls that connect and confine us across generations emerge, shaping who we are to ourselves and to one another.
Germany | 04:12 | 2025
Softly, slugs trace their way across wet lips. Snakes glide gently through fingers, while a bear embraces a woman's body with a loving hug. “Sensual” offers an unusual, subjective, and deeply intimate perspective on the feeling of physical closeness and tenderness. Using animal metaphors, the film takes us on a journey through the intimate emotions of the foreplay, unfolding into the gentle and loving touches of our partner.
France | 10:20 | 2025
In an isolated sanatorium on the shore of the Black Sea, a girl discovers a strange world governed by mysterious rules and unusual treatments. Little by little, she adapts, makes friends, and learns to live in this place suspended in time. One day, feeling unwell, she is sent to a small white house, far from the other children. There, the boundaries between dream and reality begin to blur. One night, together with her two companions, she decides to escape toward the sea. But once faced with the horizon, a truth becomes clear: being a child is not so simple, their freedom is not assured, and their story is far from the adventure they had imagined.
Ireland | 03:52 | 2025
Lipstick' explores the lives of three generations of women within one family as they deal with ageing, sickness and interdependence.
Kyrgyzstan | 06:56 | 2025
Because I Am a Girl is a short animated documentary created with teenage girls in Kyrgyzstan.
Through personal reflections, the girls speak about everyday expectations and social roles they grow up with.
The film listens carefully to how these norms are expressed, repeated, and accepted as ordinary parts of life.
Serbia | 07:12 | 2025
In the shadows of society’s margins, vices and bad habits are born. The urban slum is our home, and the street is our war of life. We spend our days working hard for a meager salary. Hard drugs, hard sex, and every disease starting with “H” are our only escape. Being a woman here is not easy, but the struggle is the essence of survival. Welcome to Crack and the City.
Poland | 06:00 | 2025
Girl is kidnapped by her own body. In the labyrinth of her inner self, the girl must face the obsessions and desires of a person who is doomed to food- ever-present and painfully tempting. The film explores a toxic relationship with ones body. It shows the illness from an internal perspective, emphasizing confusion, loneliness, and of loss of control- emotions that are often invisible but deeply embedded in the everyday lives of people struggling with.
Singapore | 04:02 | 2025
While on call with her friends, the latest chapter of her favourite manga awakens something in a girl that makes her question the reality she's experiencing. Navigating through her imagination and worlds, she searches for her own confidence and hopefully.. the bean.
Switzerland | 12:24 | 2025
Amelia is the sole survivor on a damaged spaceship. Caught in the gravitational pull of a planet, she struggles with grief and isolation. When a mysterious presence appears, she is torn between the past and the future.