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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 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.

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?

At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted – quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.

With Caine gone and the circus dark, the cast are left with only the mistakes and traumas of their pasts to keep them company. As the prospect of eternity closes in around them, they discover the truth about the Digital Circus and its history.  Will they come to terms with what they uncover, or will they make… the other choice? Also, presumably at some point someone says something funny, because this ending can’t be THAT depressing, can it? A theatrical screening of episode 8 and the all new, hour-long episode 9.

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.

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.

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.

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

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the viewfinder is an Indian immigrant, who seeks to overcome the boundaries between himself and an anxiety-ridden country.