Movies: Gender violence

On her birthday, Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, is forced to meet her father in a family meeting centre, due to the case of gender violence that he has brought up against her mother....

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Pablo is a young man who unconsciously seeks a special connection with a girl. An unexpected call could change everything....

A young woman struggles with living a life wherein her identity is still tied to the abuse she experienced as a child. One night, she falls victim to an episode triggered by her PTSD and is forced to confront her struggles through two strange but poi...

Akil, a wealthy butchery mogul, has a very close relationship with his younger brother, Sharm. When Sharm is tragically murdered all signs point to Akil's wife, Madison. With no actual proof Akil turns to alcohol and unleashes his rage on his wife. M...

Rosa is tired of living without purpose. What would she do to take control of her own destiny?...

Mireia has just come out of a toxic relationship that prevents her from enduring physical contact when she is offered the lead role of "Sleeping Beauty" at the ballet school where she attends, and has to dance with the Blue Prince....

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network....

4 stories about 4 criminal children. Two teenagers trapped in a world full of drugs and human trafficking, another two kids bring their loved ones to the limit, other two resentful kids want to fulfill their most evil desires, and one kid who has to ...

Paty, an employee of an advertising company, is summoned to a business dinner by Mr. Gutiérrez, a successful businessman. She cannot refuse the invitation since the signing of the contract depends on this meeting. In 1993 this film received the Ariel...

Four intersex people tell their stories with eloquence and candour. Roz Mortimer's film questions how medicine and society have treated intersex people, and breaks the codes of silence and secrecy that have surrounded their lives....

In a bleak dystopian future, Elena, a kind young woman decides to accompany Javier, a withdrawn office worker, inside a small Mexico City restaurant. Almost by chance, both believe they have found her ideal companion, causing Javier an urgency to inv...

A promising student in the hood is blackmailed by his best friend into fabricating the truth about the events that unfolded on the night his girlfriend was raped....

On a dark night, Javier desperately calls his mother-in-law Ana to ask about Alison, who has been missing. Javier, trying to remain calm, hides a dark secret....

In a world of online fame built on likes and lies, an aspiring star must uncover the darkness behind the lens—before it swallows her whole....

After surviving a violent assault by a serving soldier who was convicted but walked free with a suspended sentence, Natasha O'Brien refused to stay silent....

Seen through the eyes of Asun Casasola, mother of Nagore Laffage, we take a look at the woman's life since her daughter was murdered. The crime, committed during Pamplona's San Fermin celebrations in 2008 by a psychiatric intern, shook society and hi...

An elderly woman, when moving to her new apartment, is trapped and incommunicable. Upon hearing the cries for help coming from downstairs, she needs to race against time to save her neighbor....

Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years. Explores the deep historical, social, and economic factors that contribute ...

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