After giving birth to her first child at age 20, Mona Achache had the idea to make a film on childbirth. She filmed the work of midwives to produce this documentary, which became a reference in more than 500 maternity wards and private midwives' offices in France during birth preparation sessions.

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint a...

Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, 'Luc...

BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, a...

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and t...
Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film m...

Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily lif...

In her second film, MY LIFE AS I LIVE IT (1993), Essie Coffey returns to her home in Dodge City wher...

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in ...
A portrait of five St. Petersburgians and their connection to The Hermitage.
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed...

A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's ...

Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, E...

In my home town of Arlit, in the north of the Niger, Areva has been exploiting uranium since 1976. T...

A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless...
The Time We Killed portrays the inner life of a writer unable to leave her Brooklyn apartment on the...

From Mona Lisa to Brigitte Bardot, artistic representation and perception of women is often shaped b...

The rivalry between a professional doctor and a midwife in a small Greek village.