Feast your eyes and come travel the globe with this astounding array of women’s dramatic shorts, with complexly woven plots of intrigue, deceit, and what family ties can really mean when the chips are down.

A prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Would You Look at Her, from Macedonia, follows a hard-headed tomboy who uncovers the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual. In Goddess, a closeted lesbian in India risks losing her family as she pursues her household maid, Devi. Kate makes a bargain with her terminally ill brother, who agrees to let her use his sperm if she comes out to her family that night in Tooth and Nail. From Australia, Concern for Welfare focuses on Ali, a gay Lebanese probationary constable at odds with her Muslim brother’s toxic behavior, but an unexpected encounter makes her rethink her battles. And finally, Lea and Court Matheson, a happily-married lesbian couple with a son return to Lea’s hometown to attend the funeral of her best friend, with some surprising results, in The Inherent Traits of Connor James.