Movies: Feminist

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

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 ...

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...

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

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry....

The life and rather obscure hardships of a Slovenian feminist author and human rights activist Angela Vode....

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950...

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....

In 2016, after the hate-fuelled murder of a woman in Gangnam, young feminists gathered to talk about their experiences, which led to the ‘tsunami’ of the feminist movement reawakening in Korean society. This tsunami included street protests against m...

An insight into the novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, who was also a political activist and feminist....

Julie is a loner. She spends her Saturday off at home trying to write a new screenplay. She keeps receiving messages from H - someone she might be interested in. Julie finally succumbs to H's charm and invites H over... After all, we all need some co...

An injured Andrew ends up drawn into the complicated world of Rebecca, a solitary writer whose obsession with a divine mythological character has taken over her life....

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The story and diary of a young adult that, in order to learn and understand her own identity, had to learn to march the streets and the value of what it means to legislate over our own bodies....

A painter, a naked woman, and a camera. In this triple constellation we explore the power of the gaze and the roles it imposes on us. An artist's studio turns into the setting for questions about how we look at and perceive women. The naked skin of t...

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

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

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...

"In factories, everyone has their place. Western industrial production is a site of magical thinking: an old history that will never return, an idealized construction that never really was. It's impossible to know what the true costs would be if it ...