Monday 17, 9:30-10:30 am NEW YORK CITY REMIERE! After being abroad for ten years, Clara comes back to Buenos Aires, where she grew up, to give birth to her first daughter, Alma. While she is waiting to give birth, she finds a box that contains film footage. She discovers that the footage is part of…

Tuesday 18, 9:10 am-10:50 am   Feature documentary exploring the concept of heroic women from the birth of the superhero in the 1940s to the TV and big screen action blockbusters of today. Heroic role models are important in childhood development, yet there is a dearth of these for girls. Wonder Woman provides a rare…

Monday 17, 11:00 am-1:00 pm Wadjda وجدة‎  is a 2012 Saudi Arabian film, written and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour. It was the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director. Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl, living near Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although…

Tuesday 18, 2:00 pm – 4:10 pm 13-year-old Wei Minzhi, who can barely read or write herself, is chosen to take over her impoverished village’s one-room schoolhouse when its sole teacher must suddenly leave for one month to care for his ailing mother. Minzhi is promised extra money to ensure all the students are still…

Monday 17, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will…

Tuesday 18, 11:00 am-1:00 pm Bellissima is a 1951 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Luchino Visconti. The film, starring Anna Magnani,  is a satire of the postwar Italian film industry, and particularly the dream of stardom encouraged by the neorealist movement which plucked out ordinary members of the public to appear in film productions….