A los libros y a las mujeres canto (To Books and Women I Sing) is titled after a cleverly rewritten quote from Virgil. This bold opening gesture already announces what lies at the heart of the film: the civilising role of women and literature.María Elorza's first feature is structured around four portraits of women and…- Being thrown down a flight of stairs, hit by a car or beaten up is everyday life for stuntwomen Virginie, Petra and Estelle. They talk about their extraordinary work, while we follow them during training sessions and on film sets in France and the US, as well as on family visits or at the gym. What does this all this p…
- In a remote village, whose name roughly means “a cold place”, this film looks for warmth in encounters. The Ukrainian village of Stuzhytsya is situated in the Carpathian Mountains in the border triangle between Poland and Slovakia. The thr…
- Cat and Hannah, two British women in their twenties, take on the gruelling 3000km drive along Central Asia's Pamir Highway - the second highest international road on Earth. It runs from southern Uzbek deserts, through Tajikistan's Pamir mountain range, climbing over 4600m, into Kyrgyzstan and all the way to its vibrant…