When Love Me star, Bojana Novakovic travels from Hollywood to rural Serbia to explore the life of the eccentric, tormented aunt she was never allowed to know, she is forced to face secrets about the women in her family and about herself as well. The result is a rousing documentary about the survival of four generations of women in the face of patriarchal violence.

Alexander Murphy’s intimate observational documentary takes us into the lives of an Irish Traveller family, eking out an existence in a tiny mobile home. The ten children frolic in the fields and prepare for their elaborate communions attuned to but still free of the challenges their parents face on the fringes of an Irish village.

As women fight for their independence in Iran, the plastic surgery business is simultaneously booming in the nation’s capital, a place whose very architecture is likewise torn down and rebuilt on repeat. Afsaneh Salari’s tender, unjudgmental documentary, heading straight to Adelaide from Toronto International Film Festival, asks what lies behind this social phenomenon.

At his Dallas clinic, Bill Moore has built a growing business offering men penis enlargement procedures. Funny, graphic and unexpectedly matter of fact, Manhood follows Moore and his clients into a world where ordinary male insecurity is measured in inches and increasingly treated as something money can fix.