Women S Rights Movies

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

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a...

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...

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of...

Anthology film. Five heroines from five different, yet similar worlds face social and systematic oppression and injustice. We follow their journeys...

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and...

How to ride a mechanical bull and not care that everyone is picturing you naked.

The Burden of Virginity explores the deeply rooted traditions surrounding virginity in Uzbekistan, focusing on the expectations placed on brides to...

When filmmaker Gina Hara sets out to explore the hidden half of nerd culture, she struggles through unexpected resistance. Welcome to the world of...

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...

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the...

Ruby Pasha, an aspiring entomologist from a village in Pakistan, disappears after killing her fiancé and his evil family who threatened to...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

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,...

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

According to the laws of Iran, Bahareh must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her to driving lessons so she and her instructor...

Documentary film about the controversial movement of women seeking ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. More and more women are answering a...

In an America where more and more women and trans people are losing legal bodily autonomy, the history of Bill Baird’s long fight for...