What is a woman's courage? What is the
 difference between courage as defined by men
 and by women? Is a woman who shows courage
 rewarded, or does she pay a heavy price? Maybe
 the refusal to be brave is in itself courageous?
 "Heroine" puts a spotlight on stories told by female
 filmmakers focused on, and through the eyes of,
 female protagonists. The film brings
 to the screen fiction stories which seek to break
 through the discourse and dialectic of courage
 and cowardice to discover an additional range of concepts that are not as definitive.