While her friends play on their smartphones, 14 year old Nora falls in love with wild Romy, with whom she turns the city park into a jungle and the local swimming pool into an ocean. Leonie Krippendorff‘s "Kokon" is a beautiful coming of age drama about young love and hot summer days in Berlin.

In Pei-Ju Hsiehs spectacular debut "Heavy Craving", overweight Jiang Ying-Juan undergoes a strict diet program in order to adhere to social body standards. But when she suddenly loses her sense of taste, she starts to doubt whether the goal of an ideal weight is worth it.

Artist Tristan Meecham wants to honor the older members of the LGBTQ+ community of Melbourn with a ball event.  The film "Coming Back Out Ball Movie" documents the artist’s project, which is to bring queer seniors back into society and to thank them for their queer political battles.

In "Speak Up", black women from Belgium and France raise their voices and talk about how social expectations and prejudices strongly impact their lives. An intimate portrait that lets black women express the black female perspective for themselves.

With his film "Portrait of my Mother", director Tavo Ruiz supports his mother in coming to terms with her abuse and encourages abuse survivors to share their stories.

In training centers in the Philippines, domestic workers in training are prepared for work assignments in foreign countries. In so-called "preenactments", they learn how to deal with emotional abuse. A brutally honest look at the misery of modern slavery in our globalized working environment.

Cassandra is tasked with organizing her mother's funeral within 48 hours, throwing her into an identity crisis that escalates in increasingly absurd ways. An atmospheric drama about death that defies all genre conventions.

In her feature-length film debut "Walchensee Forever", director Janna Ji Wonders describes the story of her family from the perspective of its women, each of whom braves the patriarchal structures of their time in their own way. A very personal film about solidarity between women, German history and the lake Walchensee.

"Uferfrauen" is a charming and at the same time profound film by Barbara Wallbraun about lesbian life and love in the German Democratic Republic. The director accompanies six women who have lived in big cities and small towns in the north and south of the former socialist Republic and have lots of stories to tell.