With the 2024-2025 movie awards season in full swing, let’s look at what filmmakers had the world watching — and discussing — last year. This article highlights seven international films from the past year, each transcending borders and language barriers to tell untold stories, raise global awareness, and reveal universal truths.
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While following Jemima, a little curious girl who wanders through dusty roads, crowded markets, slaughterhouses, furnaces and bat hunters, we get acquainted with three women who describe the harsh realities of being born female and deaf in a society that discriminates against both women and people with disabilities. The stories of Immaculée, Sylvie and Stuka are stories of everyday struggle against marginalization, abuse, and oppression, but despite the insurmountable obstacles imposed on them by society, the protagonists show us how their strong and undefeated will allows them to take hold of their fate every single day and reveals the beautiful resilience of the human spirit.