Haunted by a childhood secret, courageous Indo-Canadian sisters from small-town British Columbia finally face their abuser in court, exposing how their rigidly sexist upbringing—reinforced even by the Bollywood films they loved as girls—conditioned them as victims.

After discovering she was born in one of Iran's most notorious torture prisons, and with her mother refusing to speak, the filmmaker sets off to find answers from anyone willing to break decades of silence.

Forty years later, a Chilean woman who was obscenely tortured under Pinochet's regime awaits a potentially historic court verdict and a chance to begin healing unimaginable wounds.

Fusing tough subject matter with wicked humour and inventive spoken word, this thought-provoking performative doc stages four young actresses playing interchangeable roles to recount real-life abortion experiences.

Fighting for their right to play soccer and one day compete at the FIFA Women's World Cup, a team of fearless Sudanese heroines clash with tradition, politics and religion on the field of their dreams.

Fearful of being labelled "leftover"—a term for an urban, educated and unmarried woman in her late 20s—women in China must find a partner before they turn 27, or risk rejection from their own families.

A multi-billion-dollar mining corporation would never suspect that one Peruvian subsistence farmer could bring them to their knees, but they meet their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.

Women's voices and stories from all over the world take centre stage in the Persister film program. What are they saying about the cultural, political and economic forces that undermine or uphold women's fight for equal rights and against gender-based violence? Where is Canada situated within the conversation?

Women speak out from both sides of the camera against a culture that accepts men's abuse of power, patriarchy's control over female bodies, and the racist, sexist, sizeist and ableist beauty standards imposed on them.

At the age of nine, the director's aunt was abruptly whisked from Turkey to Belgium, and became a child bride just four years later. Now, both women trace the timeline of her shattered childhood to reclaim her stolen life.

Football and feminism collide as former cheerleaders file class-action lawsuits and face off with the multi-billion-dollar NFL corporation, alleging rampant wage theft, sexism and labour violations.