[𝗧𝗛𝗘 COVID-19 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗔𝗦 𝗔 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗥 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆] LGBTIQ people are no strangers to isolation. The film 'Lonesome' by Justice Khor is a documentary that explores the intersection of queerness and isolation. The film weaves together stories left as voice mails that talk about loneliness, seeking love and connection, and ultimately, self-acceptance.

Renee grew up waiting for her happily ever after. At least, that's what her mother promised her. But what happens if you marry Prince Charming only to find he's a Monster? Pregnant and living in a foreign land, Renee must decide to stay with her husband or leave him. The decision is hers alone to make.

A group of female students interview fellow workers in the audiovisual industry, and through an innovative montage and an unknown voice over, they manage to tell their experiences, encouraging other women and dissidents to raise their voices.

The documentary shows the involvement of the LGBTQI + community in the 2nd July 2019 Parade, Bahia Independence Day, at times focusing on the balizas’ performances, at times focusing on the audience that’s there to watch those performances. Over 16 years, they gather at the Rosário’s Church region, at Avenida Sete de Setembro, Salvador-BA-BRA, and get thrilled with the baliza’s performances. All of this makes this place be called “The Sassy Territory”. With the special guest Jean Wyllys, Human Rights Ativist, the film has two central characters, Diana Souza and Gabriel Vilasboas.

The Protagonist, by her given name, is presented to us in her natural environment : a jungle, sadly, often lacking in density. But today enough is enough! Being the mother, the secretary, the lover, the nanny, the baby bottle, the side piece of the main male character is no longer enough for our dear Protagonist ! Put on "mute" after the allocated time for female* characters in a film was reached, she runs away with her friend Voice-Over for a new journey with plenty of humor.

Romantic Chorus, Jade! is a short animated documentary featuring Jade Theriault, comedian and self-described cyborg, as she tells of her unique experiences and the challenges of being disabled and dating. She speaks frankly of her sexual trials and tribulations, and elucidates some of the larger issues related to the marginalization of discussions about disability and sexuality . . . oh, and she’s funny while doing it.

The film is 100% rotoscoped by hand (frame by frame) by the magnificent animator Joseph Crockett.

To get to class on time, children from Vancouver's largest
social housing project were forced to jump shunting train cars that stood in their path. After months of advocating for a safe crossing, twenty-five mothers made their voices heard by blockading CN rail.

In one Eastern Washington city, there is a long history of segregation. Through the decades, the Tri-Cities has existed as a farm region, a plutonium producer for WWII, and a sundown town dubbed the “Birmingham of Washington” by the NAACP. While racial segregation is no longer overt, today, it silently separates the odd amalgamation of Ph.D. scientists, migrant farmworkers, and white nationalists in the region. By exploring her city's history, one woman gains a further understanding of identity by piecing together the messy history before her.

During this night of December 31, 2019, the heart of Cléo, 20 years old, oscillates between her attachment for Emile, her love from high school, and her new desire for the beautiful Thaïs, whom she barely knows.

It´s about the Tatiany life as an artist, who, due to her lack of her neurodiversity knowledge, deals many social barriers, which aggravats her health, but she finds through art and knowledge a chance to overcome it.

A visual poem explores the negative effects of toxic masculinity and invites men to re-embrace the softness of boyhood.

Within the ambiguous safety of a service station, a concerned father and his scared daughter take refuge. Rachel lives with bipolar disorder and the invisibility of her condition has become all too real for both herself and Mark. What happens when they realise that neither of them could save her life? In collaboration with Bipolar UK, ‘Just in Case’ explores the harsh reality of what it’s really like to live with bipolar disorder.

After answering a routine mental health survey trying to refill a prescription, a young woman accidentally triggers a suicide alert, and an overbearing caretaker robot is sent to supervise her for 48 hours. She thinks it was a mistake - she's not doing *that* badly, but maybe she needs a little more help than she thinks.

Xueli, a Chinese teenager, got into an argument with her mother during the dress hunt for the welcome party at her new school in the States. Having settled for a traditional Chinese qipao but with a fashionable pleated look, Xueli leaves hometown with the dress feeling as content as one can be. However, she found everything to be far off from her expectation when she landed the new world.

GIOVANNA a woman of strong character, very special, feminist and addicted to Ballantines, is angry because she has been witnessing several times of despot and unfair treatment and what she cannot understand is that in this era of modernity, there are still such characters who behave like that; but what outrages her most is that there are so many other characters who support such degrading behavior.

A teenage girl in Iran is a model unbeknown to her traditional and religious father. At her sister’s wedding, her father finds out about her job. The girl, who has spent her income to help her sister get married, realizes that her sister has exposed her to her father. The father scissors her long hair, but she tries to continue her career whit her new style.

In a potpourri of sparkles, musical numbers and documentary interview, Bistro Girls uses animation to explore the unescapable passion that drives artists, no matter their walk of life.

the film will delve into the emotions of five women who experienced loss severely, so the pain of waiting and postponed destiny were their common features.

A scientist seeks answers by observing the world through the lens of her microscope.

The film tells a story of an Egyptian grandmother that lives far from her hometown, Upper Egypt.Masryia tries to find happiness in these memories while living with her family in her small home in the city.

This contemporary Appalachian folktale recounts a woman’s attempt to escape her childhood monster, the Pottero. The journey forces her to reconcile with the place she came from and the monsters waiting for her there.

The ongoing pandemic has taught us neither wealth nor fame can save us from the furies of nature. While we were attentive towards mainstream society, marginalized women had to strive it out alone. ‘Ora’ attempts to explore our age-old societal mindset whereby they have been outcast from the mainstream in every walks of their lives. A documentation which will stir the conscience and emotionally involve it’s viewers into their lives.

Amato is about the diversity of polyamorous models in the Quebec portrait. Three unique and interrelated stories are staged through performing arts.

Camila and Abril grew up together in a small town on the coast and are best friends. There´s an obvious and uncomfortable attraction between them. April's family will move to the city, their paths will have to separate forever. No one understands how to say goodbye to the person they love.

Araceli and Lulu have been together and away from their families for many decades. Now that they are old, they only depend on each other and no one else. In another part of the city, Julian struggles to explore his identity while living under the umbrella of his conservative mother and macho minded grandfather. A sudden event will draw an unexpected path between Arcelia and the young Julian

A look within Laurie’s journey, throughout a night out with friends, to embrace her identity.

Forced to be a servant to a white woman, an Afro-Colombian orphaned girl dreams of freedom, a normal childhood, and a pair of roller-skates.

A homeless man wanders collecting sweaters through the streets until a little girl leads him to confront his reality.

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas : her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming. Live action and animation intertwine in this short and poetic documentary, both intimate and universal.

In The Dusk follows the journey of an elder Shaman (Tangad Borkhuu), who loses her only grandson after curing a dying boy. She is searching for a foal that the Gods tell her is the rebirth of her grandson. No one, including her son, believes in her, but she insists the Gods will reply to her call.

En camino is a journey from Mexico City to Mérida. It collects the testimonies of many women and activists. Through their experiences and emotions we address a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a woman in Mexico? The answer is plural and takes us to the themes of economic exploitation; human trafficking; lack of institutional protection; inequality in economic, educational, sexual and reproductive rights; the cultural meaning of the word love; sexual and psychological violence. If these issues are exacerbated in number and intensity in Mexico - among the countries with the highest rate of feminicides and number one in the world for child sexual abuse - they resonate in the rest of the world because of the link that welds capitalism and patriarchy in history. Outside of colonial history, which complicates and aggravates the socio-political situation of Latin American women, the roots are common: the world is still macho, and women are, all too often, pawns of male power. In the texture of their faces, the colours of Mexico, its landscapes, its skies and clouds - because looking at the sky is the fundamental gesture to open new horizons - the women tell us the struggle for the right to be able to say "no".

This film focuses on three unwed mothers And surrounding women in three different places in China. It tells the story of an unwed mother Yang Yang who was driven out of her family to give birth to a child alone, the marriage story of a 19-year-old unwed mother who gave birth to a baby, and the childhood experience of a charitable women who helped unmarried mothers even she lost both parents since her childhood. The film attempt to show the current life of this group. Although the story is full of emotion during narration, what we record is only the tip of the iceberg of this group...

A young Dominican woman with an exciting career and marriage proposal on the horizon befriends a senior Italian widow navigating life on her own for the very first time. They form a bond that bridges their cultural and generational divide.

Holy Slut, a young graffiti woman who was sexually abused at the age of 13, wanders alone through the locked-down streets of Albi, feverishly scribbling fragments of her story on walls around the city as she attempts to disentangle the knotted threads of her existence and free herself from a past that weighs heavily on her present.