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1) Good Ol Girl
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows three Texas cowgirls tasked with carrying on their families’ legacies amidst a volatile landscape and industry. The film journeys with them as they hustle for land, cattle, and respect across Texas.
2) Sexology
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a post sexual revolution world, where you can purchase a vibrator just as easily as a pair of shoes, roughly one-third of all women have never experienced an orgasm. Armed with shocking sexual data, a bunch of insecurities and a determination to unlock the key to feminine sexual energy, filmmakers Catherine Oxenberg and Gabrielle Anwar seek out sexual experts, tantric masters, researchers and everyday women to unearth the full female potential....
3) Another Body
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfakes of herself circulating online. Through candid video diaries, synthetic media, and 2D and 3D animation, the film takes you into Taylor's online and offline worlds, humanizing a vast social issue in a compelling personal story.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Kurdish
Description
The Yazidi girls were often just teenagers when they were abducted from their villages in the mountains of Kurdistan by fighters of Islamic State. They were converted to Islam by force, were sold as sex slaves for terrorists. Now that the survivors return to their homeland, the question arises if they will manage to start anew. Theatre-maker Hussein tries to help them to find a new life.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What happens when strong-willed women enter politics? How do they create change and achieve their goals? Though the legislators in this film represent different ends of the political spectrum, they share a common fight: enacting bold policy in the face of an outdated political establishment. Sometimes that fight pits them against their country's leaders, and can even pit them against their own political parties as they navigate gendered double-standards...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
“Forget those demure ladies with fragrant fans and meet the new breed of Japanese women!” - Amanda Casson, London Film Festival. Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the ‘Frank Chickens’, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence, examining traditional attitudes to women and those of Kazuko’s friends who are trying to live differently. “This is...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern history, THE SARI SOLDIERS is an extraordinary story of six women’s courageous efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s crackdown on civil liberties. When Devi, mother of a 15-year-old girl, witnesses her niece being tortured and murdered by the Royal Nepal Army, she speaks publicly...
9) Queer Egypt
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Using innovative masking technology to hide the identities of the people he meets, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin navigates the complex online and real-life world of two people who identify as queer who have been repeatedly targeted by a gang with violent viral video humiliations and police arrests. Forced to choose between sex work and asylum, Jamal chooses to stay and Laila chooses to go.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Israel's gay Palestinian underground. Persecuted in Palestine and called criminals in Israel, gay Palestinians are the silent victims of the conflict. Louie has been hiding in Tel Aviv for ten years, Abdu was tortured and accused of espionage for his relationships with gay Israelis and Louis was almost killed by his family. Where ever they go they live in fear of discovery. Only in Isreael's gay underground are they at home. Eye opening and revelatory....
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shot in six cities along the legendary Trans-Siberian railway, this documentary follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam, as they go undercover to meet with members of the LGBTQ+ community in Russia. During their travels, they reveal deeply personal and moving accounts from Russian activists and non-activists alike, who risk everything to live authentically and survive under oppressive laws and harsh prejudices.
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with current attempts to ban it, this film draws startling parallels with the battle waged over nearly two decades to keep RU486, now called mifepristone, from the U.S. market. The story of the pill's tangled and fascinating history begins with its invention in France, travels to Germany, England, India, Brazil, China and finally to clinical trials in the United States. Featuring rare historical footage of political, scientific, corporate,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Swahili
Description
A gripping feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto that examines the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing the tradition. In this epic work, women speak candidly about the practice and explain its cultural significance within Kenyan society. From gripping testimonials by young women who share the painful aftermath of their trauma to interviews with elderly matriarchs...
14) Breach of Trust
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The high-profile sexual assault scandal at the University of Southern California involving Dr. George Tyndall, the only full-time gynecologist in the school’s student health clinic from 1989 to 2016, first made headlines when journalists Harriet Ryan and Matt Hamilton exposed horrific abuses in a 2018 LA Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report. USC recently announced it would pay {dollar}1.1 billion to patients, making it the largest...
15) Searching Eva
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
**WARNING**: This film contains nudity and frank discussions of sex and sexuality that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Eva, 25, drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist, model, declared privacy an outdated concept at the age of 14. This is the tale of a young woman growing up in the age of the internet, turning the search for oneself into a public spectacle, challenging definitions...
16) Rebels
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tina Bara, Cornelia Slime and Gabriele Stötzer are rebels. As fearless young women in the 1970s and 80s in the GDR, they made art expressing their anger against the oppressive regime, and claiming their right to freedom. Their uncompromising photographs narrate how it feels to be at the mercy of a system that suffocates young creative voices. But when the conflict with state security escalates, they have to make a decision: stay or go.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Director Joanna Lipper elegantly explores past and present as she tells the remarkable story of Hafsat Abiola, daughter of human rights heroine Kudirat Abiola, and Nigeria's President-elect M.K.O. Abiola, who won a historic vote in 1993 that promised to end years of military dictatorship. Shortly after the election M.K.O. Abiola's victory was annulled and he was arrested. While he was imprisoned, his wife Kudirat took over leadership of the pro-democracy...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A gripping and surprising perspective on the clash between Islam, Secularism, and the political role of women in the Arab world. Offering an insightful portrait of the messy work of democracy, A REVOLUTION IN FOUR SEASONS is especially poignant in this global era of divided politics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Uses bird and bee cartoon characters to present straightforward explanations of topics related to sexual development, love, reproduction, adoption, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. From the trusted team of Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, this classic resource for younger children receives its most ambitious update yet. Rigorously vetted by experts and featuring updated and new facts on pregnancy, birth, adoption, bodies, sexuality, gender...
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