Movies: Feminist

The Legend of a Sigh is Tahmineh Milani's strikingly feminist film which draws on the literature of Azarbayejan province. The protagonist is a female novelist who experiences the lives of four women from different social strata. The film offers a fas...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion within the Women’s Liberation Movement at this time and to thus contribute to action for change. In its ...

Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three dimensional image. The experience resembles the brain, working with electromagnetic waves and low voltage i...

Lacho Cuevas is the old thief of the town, exiled years ago because of his crimes. However, due to a series of robberies against the town's merchants, Cuevas is hired by the Sheriff to help catch the mysterious thief "Black Rider"....

In the 1970s, Françoise d'Eaubonne stood out in the French intellectual landscape. At 50, she has already won several literary prizes and published around forty novels and essays, but is resuming her militant fight with renewed vigor. She is the firs...

Inspired by Joan of Arc, Johanne follows a day in a life of the eponymous heroine. While set in medieval fantasy town, it explores the very current and urgent theme of preserving one’s humanity while struggling against inhumane environment, from mode...

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After suffering traumatic assault, Allie finds herself drawn into a mysterious cult of women who operate on her university campus under the alias of ‘Girl’s Club’, who promise to help her take revenge on her assailant....

A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in ...

In this short documentary, we take a look at the history and future of roller derby in the Netherlands, while also touching on subjects such as image and the rise of men’s teams in this traditionally female sport. We tried to capture the Roller Derby...

Seven women and one non binary person share their personal experiences with masturbation through short anecdotes and a revolutionary washing machine....

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She's Not Alone is a social enterprise short, that exposes the lack of safety in rideshare services, particularly for women and gender-diverse people....

For nearly 50 years, reporter, writer and photographer Laurence Deonna risked her life to capture the noise and anger of our times....

A bounty hunter searching for her next mark comes across an injured young man with a bounty on his head....

In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal - who were known by their codename "The Butterflies" - created an underground resistance movement against Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, Trujillo had ...

A self-proclaimed ex-romantic describes her dream man....

Dancing For Change is a story about secular and socialist women of the Islamic world, their ideals, activism, and visions for a better world. It focuses on six Kurdish Iranian women from three different generations. These women live with their male c...

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Barbara and Brava, two reporters from gynocentric country "Vulvopotamia" make a report of their journey somewhere in Mexico, on a mission to fight the inequality crisis by promoting woman made films to citizens....