After the death of their father, 18-year-old Helene Raupe (“coccoon”) and her younger sister Asta come under the guardianship of the youth welfare office in East Berlin. Helene fails miserably as a fishmonger, fashion assistant and bus conductor, all jobs ordained for her by the authorities. The young woman really only “emerges” in her fantasies, where she can escape from her dull, normal life.

A series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their rom...

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a confli...

Would-be feminist Yoanna, running her own company, is insulted in a phone booth by a stranger named ...

In this modern twist on a classic fairy tale, a headstrong princess is stolen by an evil sorcerer, a...

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive que...

A beautiful woman, apparently a sophisticated Miss, is killed while skiing in Candanchú, an accurate...

Üftade has long been the object of men’s fury. Her only hope is to marry the young man she is in lov...

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgrace...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. Wh...

Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperat...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
Ms Norris meets with students, goes a little batty, has dinner with her boyfriend, and revelations e...

'Inertia' tells the story of one woman's navigation through a nocturnal city on her way home after d...

Matthew, a college freshman, meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a blackout. He never see...

Ginger, a recent widow, takes up autoerotic asphyxiation to work up the nerve to kill her abusive mo...

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-h...
Three over-looked and under-laid young women, a box of matches and some sage; can the cult leader ri...