3 Women is the second feature film of Manijeh Hekmat, who received international acclaim for Women’s Prison (2002). The title credits are inscribed on a rug with a beautiful pattern, which will function as a significant symbol. Minoo, a weave ..

As we can see from the title, Dinner with the President: a Nation’s Journey is a documentary that filmed various people around Pakistan. The film begins when Musharraf, the present president of Pakistan takes power in October 1999 by enacting a mili ..

Elsa is a 50 year-old woman who has been a probation officer for 15 years. She lives with her husband, Raimar, who owns an auto repair shop, and her daughter, Daniela, who is a high school student, as an ordinary family. Her ordinary lifestyle takes a drast ..

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected as the first woman president of Liberia. This was the first time that a woman had become a president in African history. Winning over George Weah, who is an internationally famous soccer player, Sirleaf tries hard to clean ..

After her husband’s death, Martha becomes a grieving loner. With encouragement from friends on her exceptional sewing skills, Martha prepares to open her own lingerie shop. However stubborn and conservative small town people, including her own clergyman so ..

In factories on fashion district in San Pedro, California, labors are supplied by illegal female immigrants from South America. ‘Forever 21’, a national retailer of young women’s clothes, also have a factory here. Run by a Korean entrepreneur, ‘Forever ..

Why is that society holds motherhood to such a strict moral standard unlike fatherhood? The Director, Maria Speth, raises this question to the society that demands mothers to be the Madonna, while separating the image of women with the Madonna-whore variati ..

Marcela is a recent work of Helena Třeštíková, who started making documentary films in the 1970’s, focusing on human relationships and various social connections. A particularly unique feature of her work is her filming metho ..

Sophie has an interracial marriage with a Korean-American lawyer, Andrew. The couple’s most tragic loss is that they cannot conceive a child. Driven by her husband’s infertility, which makes him extremely depressed, Sophie sets out to have a baby. She mee ..

Nyonya is the name given to daughters who are born of the ethnic Chinese and native Indonesians, and also the name of dishes harmoniously integrated with Indonesian food and Chinese food. It would be wonderful if various ethnicities and cultures could achie ..

Alex Houston is a white female wine importer in Manhattan. She dates Dana, a pilot who is half white and half black Jewish. In fear that Dana’s biracial status might cause a commotion in her southern American family, she lies to Dana that her entire family ..

Jackie works as an operator of surveillance cameras at a bank building in Glasgow. One day, Jackie sees through the camera a man whom she is likely to know. His name is Clyde, who is recently released from a prison and lives in Red Road apartment. Jackie wa ..

Inés and Miguel are lovers. During their vacation to get away from Buenos Aires, they take a bus trip to a beach. While on the way, they got into an argument, however, as Inés is unsatisfied with Miguel’s lack of seriousness on their relation ..

Why is it that the rate of hypochondria and suicide of Asian American women is exceptionally high? What would it mean to these women to go home where their loved ones wait, which is symbolized by the yellow ribbon in the title, and gain a sense of attachmen ..

Viva, Women Directors! was produced by the Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival(TIWFF) to commemorate its 20th anniversary. The TIWFF, which has screened about 220 films from 38 countries over the last 20 years, have not a grand scale but may ..

Set on Christmas Eve and the day of Christmas, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, this film unfolds the story three women from Cologne, Germany, who met each other by chance; Italian-German Francesca, her 17 year-old sister Antonietta, and retired Gelinde. Anto ..

What happened between Italian women and Italian feminism before and after 1968? Titled after the feminist song ‘We Want Roses Too’ which has been popular among the western feminist community, this is a collage style documentary about the feminist movement ..

Kara Herold decides to make a movie about her mother who has a certain opinion of her daughter’s not being married. Kara’s mother is an ordinary woman who thinks that women like Kara who remain unmarried give up the possibility of happiness and a better l ..

Can the relationship between a beautiful 16-yearold girl who blooms into beautiful woman and her mother, whose self esteem suffering her outward appearance, have any peace? Their conflict pops up at the mother’s 25th anniversary party. How can he mother re ..

Everybody has tough times during his or her lifetime. Daisy, a 70-year-old lady, has received a serious from her doctor today, to her the memories of the old days’are still alive and beautiful. But today is a special day for her, not just because she is af ..

Barbara Hammer is well known to the audiences of the IWFFIS for her works such as Love Other: Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (2005), History Lesson (2000), and Tender Fiction (1995). Surprisingly, her latest work is on the divin ..

Holly is a girl who is an exceptional basketball player. Jonny, who could not take the ball away from Holly, pulls down her pants and embarrasses her in front of their friends. Due to this incident, Holly refuses to go to school and cries. After Ramtha’s v ..

Hristina is an illegal immigrant who came from Bulgaria to the Netherlands. She works as a housekeeper, who does household chores in the houses of Amsterdam. However, Hristina is not only a visiting housekeeper but also a photographer, taking pictures of th ..

A documentary that shines the spotlight on Judith Butler as a philosopher, queer theorist, feminist, and Jewish-American. The film captures the life, theories, and viewpoints of Judith Butler as it follows her on her college lectures, interviews, visit to C ..

Me, the movie director, hired a young lady, Lakshmi, as a housemaid. She always concentrates her work and just say “hi” to Lakshmi whenever she comes to work at director’s house. But one day She decides to make a documentary about Lakshmi who comes from ..

A Polish woman comes to Germany for money, leaving her little son back at home. She takes a job in the home a family whose every member is psychologically twisted. After suffering at the house, she decides to retarn for her son at home. This black-comedy an ..

On Claudia’s Wedding day, Ann, her mom, doesn’t show up. Claudia searches for her mom living her groom-to-be father. Claudia should take care of her mom who likes to go shopping, is a latecomer and falls in love easily. Ann doesn’t attend Claudia’s wedd ..

woman ties her baby in a carriage to a fence in order to sell poprice to drivers on the freeway. In a while, the baby carriage rolls toward the freeway and her poprice is blown off…….

The film is a story about a girl whose heartbeat is faster than other’s. The sound of her heartbeat is so loud that people around her cannot fall asleep. The more people are accustomed to the sound, the skinner she becomes.