Alice hasn’t seen her two children in months. After a recent and difficult divorce, her ex-husband keeps them from seeing her, awaiting the final custody verdict in Northern Sweden. When her son calls her in the middle of the night weeping helplessly, Alice takes action. She travels on the night train to the North and in a last desperate attempt to win them over, she abducts the children and ventures on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands. With the idea that the distance between the frozen Northern Sweden and the Canaries could buy her just enough time to reconnect with her children and possibly change the verdict on the custody case. But before she knows it, she is wanted for kidnapping, and both the authorities and her ex-husband are chasing after her.

Director: Amanda Kernell (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Whakatohea, Ngati Porou)
Producers: Lars Lindström, Eve Åkergren
Writers: Amanda Kernell
New Zealand | 2021 | 115 mins
English, English Subtitles & Maori

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Maidenhood
Director: Xóchitl Enríquez Mendoza (Zapoteca)

Mexico | 2021 | 15 mins | Spanish | English subtitles

Catalina watches “La Baláhna” by her cousin Maritza, longing for one day that her own will come. She runs away with her boyfriend eager to have her first sexual relationship. They arrive at the house of their future mother-in-law, where they wait for them and the wedding begins. Catalina and Donato have their sexual relationship, but she cannot bleed. Donato tries to help her so they don't make fun of him in town. However, the women of her community realize that she is not a virgin, although Catalina confesses that she has not been with anyone. Donato decides to stay with her, but his trust is already fractured and that makes him question his love for Catalina, who cannot understand what has happened.

NOTE: This film is available in the BIRRARANGGA Film Festival 3-pass and 5-pass ticket packages.