Heroines of the screen, let’s celebrate women!

Maria is an upcoming actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film by a promising Italian director starring one of the biggest American star, her career seems on the rise. But what looks like the beginning of a dream, turn out to be the start of a living hell. The movie is THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The actress is Maria Schneider. 35 years before #metoo events, Maria’s story is a cautionary tale.

Touda only dreams of one thing: being a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan performer empowered by the lyrics of the fierce female poets who came before her – with their songs of resistance, love and emancipation. Performing every evening in provincial bars under the lustful gaze of men, Touda plans to set her sights on leaving her small town for the bright lights of Casablanca where she hopes to be recognized as a true artist and also secure a better future for her and her son

Miss Lewly boarded in Halifax in 1863. There she looked for Lieutenant Pinson, with whom she was madly in love but who did not love her. He may tell her, but she continues to pursue him even though she knows he has a mistress. Miss Lewly is actually Adèle Hugo, the poet's second daughter. She tries at all costs to marry him, making Pinson's marriage to another woman fail. Adele's mother dies, and Pinson goes to the Bearded One, she follows him. Gathered by Mrs. Baa, who warns the Hugo family, she will be sent back to France and interned.

Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and family secrets rise to the surface in this sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.

The film is a feminist musical. Two young girls live in Paris in 1962. Pauline (17), a student, dreams of leaving her family to become a singer. Suzanne (22) is taking care of her two children and is dealing with the drama of their father's suicide. Life separates them, each one living her own struggle as a woman. Pauline became a singer in a militant and itinerant group after having lived a difficult union in Iran. Suzanne is out of her misery and works at the Family Planning. Ten years later, they meet again during a feminist demonstration. At the end of this chronicle, we find them together again, with their children who have grown up.

Delphine Seyrig interviewe vingt-quatre actrices françaises et américaines sur leur expérience professionnelle en tant que femme, leurs rôles et leurs rapports avec les metteurs en scène, les réalisateurs et les équipes techniques. Bilan collectif plutôt négatif en 1976 sur une profession qui ne permet que des rôles stéréotypés et aliénants.

Suzanne is 15 and is having sex with many boys, just for fun, but did not manage to really love one of them. Her family does not understand her. The father does not like her behaviour. When he leaves home, the mother becomes a little bit neurotic. And Suzanne's brother Robert, begins to beat her as a punishment...

A romantic biopic about Sarah Bernhardt, the world’s first celebrity. Known as ”La Divine”, she left an indelible mark by shattering societal norms thank to her daring personality and acting performances.

Emilie attempts to understand the mystery of her universe: her mother Meaud. Magical grandmother, broken child, punk mother, spontaneous feminist, she fascinates as much as she disrupts. How do you give your children the love that you were denied yourself? How do you nurture your inner child when having gone through childhood trauma? Jump into an intimate odyssey, an intergalactic journey into our own common psyche.

Camargue, France - Infamous for its traditional bull race, an exhilarating and graceful challenge of agility and respect between man and beast. Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual competition, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.

Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politically active. Fanny is troubled. To win over Lena, she invents a life for herself, to the extent of becoming trapped in her lies.

Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg where her father had lived and died several years ago. It’s the city where she met him at the age of 13 for the first time, and he started to rape her. His wife and children still live there. Angot takes a camera, and knocks on her family’s doors to push them for clarity about their attitudes to her father’s crime that lasted so many years. A cinematographic journey challenging social norms and family perspectives in dealing with incest.

Twenty-seven-year-old Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she slams. Conflicted about her family name ("Good-for-nothing"), imposed on her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she is fighting to complete a name change procedure. It's time to make her new surname heard by those around her.

Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson ELLYES, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. NORA does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible...

A countryside village in France, 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors and women who perform illegal abortions in the public eye, practicing a free, safe and respectful method. Gradually Annie will join their battle, which will bring a new meaning to her life.

Alice sneaks out of the family home to take part in a guerilla political flyposting campaign.