Women Movies

Inès, of North African origin, has frizzy, unruly curls. But why should she bother straightening it? Where does this obsession with straight,...

Delves into the storied life and career of Shirley Muldowney, the pioneering “First Lady of Drag Racing.” This documentary showcases the...

A group of Sahrawi women come together and explain how traditional "jaimas" (tents) are set up.

The Sahrawi women relate their exil, the tortures, their memories and the difficulties of life as refugees. They are beautiful, touching... Educated...

Two writers in Lisbon talk about what it means to be a woman in graffiti world where the survival of the fittest is prevailed and it's difficult to...

The documentary is about the sahrawi women’s role carries out from all areas in her society and developes within the framework of the refugee...

A white melfa (Sahrawi traditional dress) contains the written desires of a group of young Sahrawi women.

Transit Tales is an animated short using stop-motion and rotoscoping to document the experiences of navigating Montreal’s metro system as...

In rural Nepal, Bishnumaya Gurung, 48 and Palhamu Sherpa, 66 go to primary school everyday and make space for learning in their lives as single women.

Western Sahara is one of the most heavily mined territories in the world following decades of conflict with its neighbours. Despite a 1991 ceasefire,...

Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich....

“Let them eat cake!” laughs a Marie-Antoinette from the dunes... Gaëlle loves to dress up. Under her wigs, Gaëlle plays with...

The dance of the voladores is a ritual originating in Mesoamerica, before the Spanish occupation. There are also women, Viviana Guerrero, from...

This is the reality of women of the same nation who live divided by the wall that has separated them for 35 years now. Exiled Sahrawi women who live...

In 1978, in Huron Park, Ontario, the women of Fleck Manufacturing walked off of the job and into the history books. Fighting for better wages, safer...

This film shows us the reality of the refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). They have been organised as a matriarchy for more than 40 years, when...

History of women in Latin America