New Currents introduces recently produced outstanding films by women filmmakers for special recognition from around the world over the past 1-2 years. In this section, the audiences of WFFIS who see the screening of these movies will have the opportunity to appreciate the work of these women directors. The 9th WFFIS puts emphasis on several new issues.
The first, women filmmaker's recent trends have been marked by themes of loss from circumstances such as death, disappearance, and separation. The movies, "Fissures", shows a woman who is a sound engineer's daughter attempts to discover the cause of her mother's death and "As the Shadow", shows an Italian lady, Claudia, tracks down a missing Ukraine woman, Olga. Especially "As the Shadow", which was made by one of the best female directors in Europe, is much different from most modern films. The usual modern films often have general characteristics of incomplete conclusions, no frame, dry, and boring plots for story lines, and so on. But this female director's film casts women in the main role to trace and solve the main theme of disappearance while men as the mediator to support which breaks from the traditional modern films in the male dominated movies.

The second, in this festival, female dominated films focused on searching and also breaking the gender discrimination in male dominated traditional society, but still questions of women¡¯s position and condition remain in the real world. In the movies of <On the Ropes>, the daughter of a kick boxer leaves the ring where her father is the owner, < Antonia>, women rappers challenge into the most male centered hip-hop world, and <Blue, Karma, Tiger> vandals who express themselves through graffiti, all these movies focus to break through the wall of the male dominated society. On the other hand, <Pleasant Moments>, <This Girl is Mine>, <Cease Fire>, and <Making Pancakes> show the conflicts and the barriers encountered from women¡¯s refusal of their traditional roles in the house like different chores for women such as labors around the house and raising children.