To be a Woman

What do women most desire? Husband or the power over him? Joanna Quinn explores the ultimate female desire in her raucous and acerbic adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tale. The road to become a Beautiful Woman can be long. Sometimes it can take us our whole life. Thankfully, young Beyong managed to so quite early…

Titles in collection

  • Wife of Bath

    1998 Adults 6 min

    by Joanna Quinn

    An arrogant knight of King Arthur’s court has raped a young woman and is sentenced to death unless he answers the question “What do women most desire?”

    • Drama
  • Beautiful Woman

    2016 Adults 9 min

    by Diego Nurse, Diëgo Nurse

    A poetic portrait about how Beyong, a 30-year-old transgender who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the woman she is today.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Postpartum

    2020 Adults 5 min

    by Henriette Rietz

    POSTPARTUM describes the chaotic phase of life in which the protagonist finds herself after becoming a mother for the first time. Pumped up with hormones and lacking sleep, this intense phase has burned deep into her heart. The overwhelming and absurd first days are narrated as snippets of thoughts and visualised by short animations. The mother dreams that she should feed her baby with »Mett« (ground pork) and she wonders whether breastfeeding mothers will survive the longest when the apocalypse is imminent, because they could feed themselves.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Nun or Never!

    2023 Adults 11 min

    by Heta Jäälinoja

    The nuns are living melted together in happy harmony. When one nun finds a man in the garden, the harmony breaks and she loses the rhythm with others. When her dreams do not come true, she finds out that everyone in the community has their own hidden universe.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
  • Klimax

    2021 16+ 3 min

    by Bea Höller, Bea Hoeller

    Klimax explores the topic of female masturbation in order to redefine the already negatively connoted image of the female sex and thus strives to create new aesthetic associations of femininity. Our main protagonist, Barbie, undergoes a process of transformation. Like Alice in Wonderland, she is immersed in a magical world, a place of allure and delight. It is a fantastic place that leads her to change little by little to free herself from her stiffness and oppression. Klimax is meant to show how unique and beautiful every woman’s body is.

    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Live a Little

    2018 16+ 4 min

    by Jenny Jokela

    Live a Little is a visual poem about the anxieties and struggles of fitting in and acting in accordance with the social norms of how a young woman should behave.

    • Drama
    • Music Videos
    • Experimental
  • Ladies

    1992 Adults 1 min

    by Candy Guard

    Two women try to keep embarrassing noises down when they aren’t sure if there is someone in the next cubicle.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
  • Her Dress for the Final

    2023 Adults 9 min

    by Martina Meštrović

    One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

  • Naked Love – Ea’s garden

    2014 Adults 5 min

    by Sara Koppel

    Naked Love Ea’s Garden is a sensual, hand-drawn animated art film that takes the viewer on a poetic, surreal exploration of Ea’s sexuality

    • Romance
    • Abstract