09.09 | 16:15-17:30
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Switzerland | 2017 | 05:00
As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her soul. She speaks of her fears, her complexes, and the process of accepting – even loving – herself.
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Poland | 2018 | 03:56
The main character is a young woman. She speaks about pain which became her companion. The pain determines her life, deprives her of what is important, pushes her to the margins of social life. The condition in which the woman lives lasts for years and the source of pain is unknown and no one can help her.
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Spain, USA | 2018 | 05:28
Girls are weird. Babies are weird. Bodies are extra weird. “Las del diente” is a film about now, a time when women are tired to choose between having kids and their careers. Days in which anomalies in the reproductive system are celebrated instead of stigmatized.
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Germany | 2017 | 03:55
The friends Jack and John live in a wonderful balance together. They climb mountains or go to the beach, everything is very harmonic.
There is a very special characteristic about this two, they have very long breasts and they use them as a helpful tool in there all day belongings.
But the idyll is deceptive. -
Poland | 2017 | 03:10
Martha urgently needs to use a restroom in the train. At the same time, she really doesn't want to get dirty or to cause anyone trouble.
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Canada | 2018 | 06:35
The story of a child born during wartime, and how her heritage shaped her childhood.
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UK | 2017 | 04:42
The story of a gardener in a Middle Eastern war zone, fighting the destruction around her with life-giving plants
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Israel | 2017 | 08:01
Eva Nagler lived through the Holocaust but didn't survive. Her memory is a legacy that has been passed down to her family that has become a genetic curse.
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UK | 2018 | 02:05
An abstract exploration into the negative mental impact that long distance relationships can cause
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Taiwan | 2018 | 04:12
Often, many women deliberately suppress their inner desires from the outside world for fear of being judged. Among those desires, a woman's desire towards food and sexual desires are even more scrutinized by the views of the outside world.
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Ireland | 2017 | 03:59
Consent is an animated short which challenges the viewer to engage with the impact an experience of violation can have on a person.
The main character's distress and torment is explored using abstract animation, minimal colour and an evocative sound track. With swift moving scenes we show how dreams are shattered, resulting in inner turmoil which takes time to heal. -
Colombia | 2017 | 02:52
Naranja is a woman that endures daily street harassment and catcalling; the constant sexualization and objectification of her body is reflected on the spots that these violent acts leave over it. Naranja will have to react before the stains consume her.
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UK | 2018 | 04:30
When the long-awaited dream dies, reality begins to circle around us and encage us in the claustrophobic space of our fears and distorting anxiety.
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Germany | 2018 | 06:31
This title references the standard HTTP response code in computer network communications, which appears when the target of the reference no longer exists. (The result is a ‘broken’ or ‘dead’ link). I use the phrase ‘Error 404’ to refer to another “errare humanum est" story, which touches on the themes of political correctness, sexism, feminist ‘branding problems’ and the shortcomings of the western canon of philosophy.
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USA | 2018 | 03:09
Redefined is a collection of anonymously shared personal experiences. Hundreds of people from the Midwest and beyond expressed events in which they were, or watched, discrimination against women take place.
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USA | 2018 | 03:41
Wild Woman is an animated poem to mankind which invokes current world issues such as drone-strikes and religious persecution in a plea for empathy. Scenes transform and melt as the animator also explores her personal struggle of becoming a mother and identifying as such in our current social and political climate.
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UK | 2017 | 03:50
In Our Skin is a celebration of nudity and freedom of women within their own bodies. It is a film about form, volume and shape, from the beauty of a fold of skin to the delicacy of a touch.
