Annita Malavasi aveva 22 anni quando nel 1943 le truppe tedesche occuparono l'Italia fino a quel momento alleata. La partigiana “Laila” ha trasmesso informazioni, trasportato armi, si è mossa tra le unità combattenti prendendo personalmente parte alla lotta armata. Per oltre un anno è rimasta sui monti dell’Appennino Reggiano a combattere contro l’occupante tedesco, dovendosi inoltre imporre in quanto donna tra gli uomini delle comunità montane dell’epoca. Sul finire della guerra Laila è stata una delle poche donne comandanti della Resistenza italiana. Il film racconta la storia di un percorso di emancipazione lungo tutta una vita ed iniziato con la lotta di liberazione contro il fascismo. Laila e due sue compagne, Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli e Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri, raccontano della propria esperienza nella Resistenza e di cosa essa abbia significato per loro e per molte altre donne.
A female Australian soldier cut off from her team, lies trapped in a collapsed building behind enemy lines. With a broken leg and minimal supplies, she is on her own until the unlikely arrival of a frightened 10 year old boy wielding a rifle, who helps her maintain survival through their developing friendship.
An elderly, soft-spoken veteran recalls when she joined the Soviet Air Force’s first all-female bombing squad. She reminisces about her friend Katja, and how they made the best of their antique equipment, struggled with being ostracised from their male comrades, and earned the fearful German nickname 'Nachthexen'.
After spending months as a prisoner in Donbass, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.
After Sergeant Stacy Armstrong returns from three deployments with PTSD, Jesse and Stacy are determined to save their twenty-year marriage from being another casualty of war. Infidelity, addiction, and a tragic accident test the couple's commitment as Jesse struggles to keep Stacy and their marriage alive.
L’umanità è in ginocchio dopo che Alice è stata tradita da Wesker a Washington D.C. Unica sopravvissuta di quello che doveva essere l’ultimo conflitto tra uomini e zombie, Alice deve tornare dove l’incubo è cominciato: a Raccoon City, dove la Umbrella Corporation sta radunando le sue forze per l’ultima guerra contro i sopravvissuti all’apocalisse. In una corsa contro il tempo Alice si riunirà ai vecchi amici e ad un alleato improbabile per un’ultima battaglia piena d’azione contro le orde di non morti e nuovi mostri mutanti. Tra la perdita delle sue abilità sovrumane e l’imminente attacco della Umbrella, questa sarà l’avventura più ardua per Alice, destinata a combattere per salvare l’umanità sull’orlo dell’oblio.
Jane Rambo is sent on a rescue mission. However, she soon learns that her commander cannot be trusted.
The Adamastos family consists of the father, Major Adamastos, the mother, Captain Eugenia and their daughter, Soldier Vicky. The father defies women in the army while the daughter falls in love with a second lieutenant justifying her father's opinion, but the mother manages to highlight the all-female Company's work.
Azra a woman major in the partisan army, who fought the Germans in World War II, returns to her home village, which she helped to liberate. Although her husband was also a high ranking officer, and their goals were united, she finds it much harder to be accepted back into village and family life.
This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.
UNKNOWN REDUX is a short movie by Anssi Määttä and Antti Tuominen, where events depicted happen in a fictitious Finland and it's alternative history.
Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their time pushing paper, battling for the top score in Minesweeper, and counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment—from friendship to love and country—are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
In una calda domenica estiva cinque soldati di leva sono consegnati per punizione in caserma, senza libera uscita. Scontri, incontri, conflitti e un suicidio come epilogo, ma seguito subito da un messaggio di speranza.
A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is assigned a unit made up entirely of young women, fresh from training.
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it's not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.
Samantha Harrison, soldatessa della Guardia Nazionale, è appena rientrata dal fronte in Iraq quando si rende conto che nessuno può aiutarla a tornare a una vita normale o a superare lo stress post traumatico. Accusata di aver ucciso per sbaglio due commilitoni, Samantha diventa presto il bersaglio di un soldato ossessionato dall'idea di vendicare la morte dei due. Cercando di mettere insieme i frammentati ricordi di quella maledetta sera, dovrà dimostrare anche a se stessa di non avere colpe.