These are five feature films you shouldn’t miss at the Film Festival for Women’s rights which is taking place from June 25 – 29, 2025 at the ARTNINE Cinema in Seoul, South Korea.

Black Box Diaries by Ito Shiori – Japan, UK, US | 2024 – 103 minutes

BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

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Devi by Subina Shrestha – Nepal, Korea, UK | 2024 – 82 minutes

In 1997, seventeen-year-old Devi was arrested, tortured, and raped during Nepal’s civil war. Branded as a rape victim, she battled depression, ostracism, and joined the rebels. After the war, Devi became a member of parliament. The film follows her journey as she consolidates survivors’ voices and reconstructs her erased history to rewrite her destiny.

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Kintsugi by Lim Jisoo – Korea | 2025 – 72 minutes

In the year 2019, “I” and my friends have responded to a sexual assault by a professor at an art school, but the #MeToo movement has left us with nothing but scars. I, along with my friends, confront the time we’d rather forget and begin a foolish attempt to glue a broken bowl.

Norita by Andrea Tortonese and Jayson McNamara – Argentina, US | 2024 – 90 minutes

Before being the feminist powerhouse that she’s known to be today, Nora Cortiñas was a traditional housewife. She was catapulted into her country’s political life when the 1976-82 military dictatorship kidnapped her son Gustavo and thousands of other young activists. Shunned by the government, church and media, Nora takes to the streets in 1977 with other mothers of the “disappeared”. Together they create the Madres of Plaza de Mayo resistance movement, and fight a brutal struggle for justice against the violent authoritarian regime. Despite imprisonment and executions, Nora and the Mothers outlast the dictatorship and emerge as a triumphant symbol of human rights, rebellion, and protest.

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Waterdrop by Choi Jongyong – Korea | 2024 – 108 minutes

Thirteen-year-old Su-yeon is left alone after her gradmother passes away. Su-yeon’s friends and neighbors, whom she hoped would take her in, gradually turn their backs on her. Faced with being placed in a childcare facility if she can’t find a guardian, Su-yeon notices a couple who catch her eye. They are adopting a seven-year-old girl named Seon-yul and are immersed in happiness. Su-yeon tries to get close to Seon-yul, but she finds Seon-yul’s behavior somewhat suspicious.

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