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Miss...Or Myth?

September 1987 •English

A feminist activist organization determined to bring attention to superficiality and the rampant objectification of women in modern American society chooses the 1985 Miss California Beauty Pageant as the site for its disruptive guerrilla demonstration. The group meets in Santa Cruz, Calif., and orchestrates its own competition -- one that attracts media attention and shocks passersby with its thought-provoking and satirical alternate reading of the institution of the American beauty pageant.

Inside the Iranian Uprising

June 2023 •English

In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

Croquantes

October 2022 •French

The Prostitutes of Lyon Speak

January 1975 •French

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Albanian Heroic Women

June 1967 •Albanian

Documentary about Congres VI of the Women's Union.

NonAlly

December 2023 •Russian

After former members of the Chelyabinsk Feminist Organization (Agitgroup), now known as the Ural Feminist Initiative, began to receive threats from the Union of Maoists of the Urals, the Yekaterinburg “Feminist Tribune” teamed up with the Chelyabinsk feminist community “A Woman Can!” to show what UFI and UMU so desperately want to hide.

Seeing Allred

January 2018 •English

Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.

Pussy Riot: Rage Against Putin

September 2023 •French

Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggle are told through archival footage and interviews with the group’s members.

Show Her the Money

September 2023 •English

This is a story that’s never been told. SHOW HER THE MONEY addresses how women are getting less than 2% of venture capital funding and demystifies what venture capital is. Featuring rock-star female investors who invest in diverse women entrepreneurs with innovations that will change the world, Show Her The Money reminds us that money is power and women need it to achieve true equality.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

November 2022 •English

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

February 2018 •English

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.

Le temps qu'il faudra

September 2024 •French

Martine is a marriage counsellor at the Women's Centre in Montreuil. Between files and dance steps, she takes us on a tour of the centre, telling us how she welcomes women who are victims of domestic abuse and the battles they fight alongside the association.

A Vida de Sara

April 2020 •Portuguese

The life of Sara Winter - former Brazilian feminist and founder of FEMEN in Brazil - told by herself; since the troubled youth, through the years of prostitution and feminist militance, until the discovery of motherhood and God.

Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl

April 2005 •English

A documentary film that tells the story of the origins of Riot Grrrl in the American independent music scene of the 1990s, and how this feminist movement evolved into a revolutionary underground network of education and self-awareness through music, writing, activism, and women-friendly community.

Sangre Violenta / Sangre Violeta

March 2024 •Spanish

Why does the Mexican government consider the feminist movement a bigger threat than most drug cartels? The short documentary 'SANGRE VIOLENTA / SANGRE VIOLETA' interweaves three narratives, illuminating the motivations behind their activism in Mexico. These stories include a radical feminist collective, an inspiring survivor of an acid attack, and a grieving father who tragically lost his seven-year-old daughter to femicide.

They Fight: Our Breasts, Our Weapons

March 2013 •French

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights, and against corruption, prostitution, sexism, racism, poverty, and religion. The activists quickly caught the attention of the media with their shocking protests. In 2012, at the creation of Femen France, Caroline Fourest followed their actions. They notably affirmed their support for "Marriage for All" by protesting on November 18, 2012, during the demonstration organized by the Civitas Institute against the bill, provoking sharp clashes.

The Feminist: A Swedish Inspiration

August 2018 •Swedish

This personal and compelling portrait follows Gudrun Schyman, spokesperson of Sweden's Feminist Initiative political party, as she moves between small towns, refugee camps, and the corridors of power.

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

June 2013 •English

In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over the country to challenge the legitimacy of Putin’s rule. Among them were a group of young, radical-feminist punk rockers, better known as Pussy Riot. Wearing colored balaclavas, tights, and summer dresses, they entered Moscow’s most venerated cathedral and dared to sing “Mother Mary, Banish Putin!” Now they have become victims of a “show” trial.

Searching Eva

October 2019 •German

This is the tale of a young woman, growing up in the age of the internet and turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, allowing kids from all over the world to live their life through hers. Through her fragmented personalities you see the emergence of a new generation, in which the concept of a fixed identity has grown old.

El Cuerpo del Escándalo - Un film acerca de Natacha Voliakovsky

September 2019 •Spanish