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In a world where we often experience places on screens before we actually visit them, the film questions the fine line between perception and reality.

At the Maison des Femmes, women victims of violence are cared for. Elsewhere, they are threatened, brutalized, raped, mutilated, their suffering ignored. Here, they are listened to, supported, helped and believed. Diane, Manon, Inès, Awa and the others will give them a helping hand until they can stand up again. As a team. Even if it means risking their own equilibrium.

Ksenia is an art critic who knows more about paintings than she does about men. That’s why she ends up being left at the altar. Frustrated, she travels to sunny Croatia, where she becomes embroiled in a crazy plot involving a painting by Paul Gauguin.

An employee of a U.S. intelligence agency wants to release classified documents about contact with extraterrestrials. While trying to shake off his pursuers, he encounters a TV host who suddenly appears to possess inexplicable abilities similar to his own. Were these abilities bestowed upon them by visitors from outer space? And could the looming threat of World War III be averted if humanity learned that it is not alone in the universe?

Edith, a journalist, is raising her son Sigurd, who was conceived through artificial insemination, on her own. When she happens to learn the name of the sperm donor, Niels, she arranges a meeting under the pretext of work in order to get to know the successful game developer and father of her son. As she maintains the pretence, she gradually grows closer to her son’s unsuspecting father.

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.

At 55, Anne is finally enjoying her freedom after her children leave home. But everything changes when her 23-year-old daughter, Louise, moves back in with her after a professional and romantic failure. And to make matters worse, her son, Théo, announces that she's going to be a grandmother! Anne realizes that life never goes as planned and that, at any age, we are still learning to grow up.

Can feminism and religion coexist? Inna Shevchenko from the Ukrainian women’s collective FEMEN is seeking answers to this difficult question through open discussions with priests, imams, rabbis and other activists.

After his girlfriend Selma suffers a miscarriage, Nori is supposed to pick her up from the hospital. But he suddenly finds himself in a park, with blood on his head and no memory whatsoever. Together, yet alone, Nori and Selma try to come to terms with the tragic events. The more their memories of what once bound them together fade, the further apart they drift. How much can their love endure?

Die Geschichte des unbekannten Schweizer Musikers Rob, der verzweifelt den Weg ins Rampenlicht sucht. Sein Ziel ist es Hunderttausend Follower auf Social Media zu gewinnen, um von grossen Plattenfirmen unter Vertrag genommen zu werden. Als Rob einen amerikanischen Filmemacher anheuert, um seinen Aufstieg zum Rockstar zu dokumentieren, gerät sein Leben plötzlich aus den Fugen.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.