a ritual of sisterhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Black Angels

September 2022 •Swedish

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Malu

November 2020 •Chinese

Mysterious poetic story of long-lasting discord between beautiful sisters unfolds in Malaysia and Japan.

Of This World

October 2010 •Spanish

Sara does not belong to this world, but in a last effort she sets out on a journey in search of her only important person.

The March

September 2020 •Spanish

In 1910, a young laundress leaves her rural home, fleeing from her father's violence. With her, her two sisters and their baby brother. Along the way they try to break free from the past and rediscover a future.

Pink is the Color of the Ocean

March 2022 •English

Living in a trailer by the ocean, Carmen does everything to give her half-sister May a better childhood than the one she had.

The Single Moms Club

March 2014 •English

A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.

Der Rand

May 2014 •German

Anubhoothi

June 1997 •Malayalam

Shivan (Suresh Gopi) arrives in a remote village as an agricultural officer. Pappachi (Jagathy) arranges the upstairs of a house for him to stay in. A family of three girls (Khusboo, Vani Viswanath, Kaveri) lives downstairs along with their father (M.R. Gopakumar). The three of them develop romantic feelings towards Shivan.

The Impeccables

January 2014 •Turkish

Two sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their childhood, as they must deal with their uneasy sibling relationship and confront their devastating recent past past.

The Makioka Sisters

May 1983 •Japanese

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.