Through Women’s Lenses

Through Women’s Lenses presents films that encounter the world from women’s perspectives: a way of looking that listens, and lets people speak for themselves. In these films women run for mayor, arrive as strangers, fall in and out of love, take to the streets, imagine themselves as rivers. From the most intimate relationships to the widest social changes, they show women changing how stories get told.

Marko Grba Singh and Stefan Malešević, film programmers

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  Electing Ms Santa
  In a remote Moldovan village, 42-year-old Elena, known locally as Santa Claus, challenges social and family conventions when she decides to run for mayor.
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  God Will Not Help
  A traditional mountain community goes into turmoil when a mysterious foreigner arrives claiming to be the wife of a man who left them many years ago.
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  Minimum Love
  On the streets of Prague at night, a young filmmaker asks strangers what they fear, desire and believe in, revealing a generation caught between uncertainty, loneliness and a longing for love.
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  River Dreams
  Along a Kazakh river, women lay bare love, rage and survival. Their voices cut through water and silence, turning scars into resistance.
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  Until the Day Ends
  Set against the backdrop of Serbia’s ongoing protests, an anarchist student and a pro-government young man find themselves fleeing Belgrade together.