Women S Rights Movies

Everyone was surprised at the triumph of Hamas in the last Palestinian elelctions, but the bigger surprise was that the women were behind that...

1979. Four female workers have lunch break inside the ladies' room, at a metallurgical factory. Between laughs and scuffles, each one has a secret of...

Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and...

Produced by the activist video collective ACT UP/NY called DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Activist Television), this tape analyzes the collaborative...

The daughters of Title IX discover that pervasive gender-based stereotypes and discrimination persist within the high stakes professional world of...

Terrified of stories of girls bleeding to death, young Tanzanian children face a terrible choice: whether to submit to female genital mutilation and...

If you don’t laugh, you’re dead

Mina is a young woman who has three daughters and now she is 9 months pregnant. She loves her life very much. Her husband would like to have a boy,...

When a young social elite at the turn of the nineteenth century explores life as a modern woman, she risks losing the man she loves and a certain...

This film explores the complexity of female infanticide in southern India and shows steps that are being taken to eradicate the practice. Every year...

Tells a story about a blurry photo of a woman who works in the media industry in Indonesia. This movie has several perspectives. One point of view is...

South Shields born animator Sheila Graber takes a wry look at the ups and downs of women’s quest for emancipation. Along the way, we meet some...

Why must a woman change her surname after marriage or divorce? This autoethnographic film explores the issue of women’s changing surnames in...

Four women are on an existential journey in Morocco, connecting with local women from all walks of life bonding in sisterhood, and share their common...

Xóchitl is an indigenous woman who must fight for her freedom before the birth of her baby, since she finds herself trapped in an abusive...