The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home. The 9-year-old seems to escape from her harsh reality by spending her days in the woods of a nearby scrapyard with her friend, Pete. There, the pair have built a new home for themselves. One night, after witnessing the horrifying abuse of her mother, Ellie decides to come back home and confront her stepfather.

Veronica, a woman fed up with the routine of her life, runs away from the van in which she is travel...

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as L...

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her...

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging featu...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

A day in the life of photo model Liv. But it's no ordinary day. She breaks up with her fiance, fathe...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.

Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children...

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many...

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her...

Drama telling the true story of what happens to a teenage girl when she falls in love with the wrong...

After Chilean writer María Carolina Geel murders her lover, the case captivates shy legal secretary ...

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man...

Yulimar seeks to become independent. Jesús, a rap musician, searches for the best place to continue ...

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos...

Can the thread of bad luck, violence and suffering which is braided deeply into the generations of o...

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