05.09 | 20:45
18+
Fiercely mature. Vulnerable. Self-sufficient. As deep as an abyss.
This is the woman of the 21st century.
In unison with her, this year's Ladies First programme features nine animated confessions in which female creators share their most painful, intimate stories — the kind of stories one usually whispers, sometimes shouts.
Don't take it as misandry, but this programme is for women. About women. For the sake of women. Young or old, XS to plus size — within these vibrant images, everyone can see their reflection and hear their inner voice.
Running time 73 min.
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Israel | 03:57 | 2023
The film follows the Writings of Jacqueline Kahanoff, wherein she, an elderly woman, confronts the revelation of uterine cancer, marking the commencement of a new chapter in her life. The film captures her fears of the treatments, the isolation experienced as a patient in a healthy world, and the peculiar beauty that emerges amidst the agony.
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Germany | 07:11 | 2024
Six years old Lily visits her grandmother after grandma had a mastectomy and doesn’t have breasts anymore. At night, Lily finds out that the shadow of grandma has the breasts, Lily follows her and tries to get the breasts back for her grandma.
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USA | 06:19 | 2023
Mom always meticulously braided my hair tightly, so tight that it pulled a clear path on top of my head. But one day, she cut off my braids. I didn't want to resist, yet I had to accept it. As I took my first steps forward alone, my stride faltered. Along the path on my head, I touched our unbreakable inner attachment, and the journey of female growth we were both unprepared to face.
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India | 12:17 | 2023
A 10-year-old girl has an obsession with the loos. Her life from one loo to another is calm, and safe but somewhat lonely. As she grows up, she tries to make sense of this obsession while navigating her way through life.
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United Kingdom, China | 04:12 | 2023
The film shows an intimate conversation between two schoolgirls during a group dance between classes, talking about body changes and the experience of UFO sightings.
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France | 11:03 | 2023
A young woman's inner voice unfolds. Successively erased, covered over, she recounts intimate moments of her life. As the story emerges, and through the unspoken, a portrait of her relationship with a little too close friend takes shape.
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Canada | 07:00 | 2024
Pic Pic is an experimental animated film that metaphorically and conceptually reveals an erotic and exhilarating dimension of touching.
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Poland | 02:35 | 2024
A young woman goes shopping despite the tough times of inflation.
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Germany | 01:56 | 2023
A Berlin born little story... The city which fools you with its liberated outlook, tends to give you a slap in the face when you get into intimate relationships, only to find out that things still aren't so different then they were in the dark days of the past, when women had take responsibility for not only their actions, but also men’s, and had to bare the consequences all on their own...
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Israel | 11:25 | 2022
Nurit walks us through her fascinating journey to motherhood, which begins in a silent birth, continues on to tens of fertility treatments and ends up in fixing the Eilat cemetery. There she finds closure.
