Female Protagonist Movies

An animated short by rapparu which focuses on a young woman's attempt to achieve space travel and her interactions with her cat.

Eva is going through a troubled time in her life. After a breakup and amid professional uncertainty, she discovers an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with...

An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.

Amélia begins to sing in her husband's church, Preacher Sérgio, and from then on she becomes aware of her annulment and servitude....

A dream of three television shows and the narrator’s identity suspended between them in a loop is keeping the protagonist awake.

7 female riders, 1 van, 15 days, 4,300km, 416 GB of raw material… culminating in one video, divided into four chapters. The film documents the...

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

2011. Fukushima. Keiko's life changes when her friends are swallowed up by the tsunami. Two years later, unable to mourn, the former trawler captain...

A poetic translation of the universal feeling at one's unknown next step. It connects to the overwhelming periods of doubtful thoughts yet resilient...

In the film-performance, actress Nasiba Zeynalova once again encounters the characters she has created over many years.

The lonely routine of Camila changes when a boy shows up at her doorstep, and tries to create a connection with her.

Growing up freely in harmony with nature, witnessing her beautiful environment being swallowed up by industrialization, BLU decides to fight for the...

Paola, a young reporter working for a tabloid newspaper, investigates a series of mysterious murders involving suspicious companies, cryptic messages...

Helena wakes up feeling unwell with unusual symptoms. She meets with her friend Laura and they go back to Helena's house. After some flashbacks of...

A year after shooting a notorious outlaw known as Ghost, a young orphan discovers he’s still alive and out for revenge. She must outwit him one...

Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to experimental filmmaking, GRLHOOD explores a typical day in the life of a young woman trying to take a trip to...