UPON HER LIPS: GIRL POWER

A young woman confronts her deeply religious mother. A biker explores the night with a group of rebel dykes in Rio de Janeiro. A headstrong rapper in French Guiana comes to terms with her roots. And five young women make the most of their final days of youth at a secluded spa in the French mountains. Power for these women lies in their bodies, their loves and their desire for a fulfilling future.

VIDEO FILE: 1hr 44mins, HD mp4 with burnt-in English subtitles.

DAUGHTER OF SIN dir. Elhachmia Didi-Alaoui

Yasmine is a twenty-two-year-old Franco-Maghreb woman who moved away from home to be able to live her life. Her love for N’dé, a thirty-something black African woman, is a secret she keeps from her family. For Eid, she visits them for a few days, whereupon her strained relationships with her mother, sister and father are all put to the test, with wildly different results.

A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE dir. Érica Sarmet

A middle-aged biker is faced with an unexpected but desired encounter with a group of young queer women. When they come together, their universes do not collide but create a timeless identification shared by a common language. 

BONNARIEN dir. Adiel Goliot

Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. In her free time she raps with her friends and flirts with Amaranta, another more successful rapper in the neighbourhood. Meanwhile, she tries to convince the authorities to change her family name, translation: "Good-for-nothing", which was imposed on her ancestors when slavery was abolished.

BURIAL OF LIFE AS A YOUNG GIRL dir. Maïté Sonnet

Axelle is having the worst day of her life: while recovering badly from a break-up, she has to go to her sister's bachelorette party at a luxurious spa in the mountains. Fortunately for her, among the guests, there is Marguerite. Through one gaze, love is awoken again.