The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the well-known Egyptian doctor, writer, and women’s rights activist. But the director was disappointed by the encounter with the woman who had been her great role model. Instead, she set out to discover what life means to Egyptian women by visiting her female relatives. Her mother, aunts, and neighbors talk about life as a married woman, about the traditional clitoridectomy of girls, about love and sexuality. The result is a very impressive and extremely personal film.

At an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Sking is one of the most isolated villages in the Himalayan r...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experi...

The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a ...

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

On an island where religion bars women from playing soccer, the Queens resist cultural norms and cha...

The story of an American hero and the Cherokee Nation's first woman Principal Chief who humbly defie...

Over many years, the director’s father filmed his family life almost obsessively. His daughter’s bir...

An inspirational story about a group of women from a remote farming region of Costa Rica whose ideas...

A documentary that proposes a conversation about the way children are praised. While girls are often...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

Documentary about the world of the Japanese geisha. Unattainable by all but the wealthy and powerful...

As part of a high-tech forensic probe into the demise of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, scientists us...

The surprising coming of age story of four diverse women who have had their lives dramatically chang...

What does beauty look like? In this award-winning short, Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii combines ani...

Gender activist Diane Torr’s worldwide appearances and workshops are now legendary. For the past thi...

Outraged by the controversial January, 1988 article in Cosmopolitan magazine, the women in the AIDS ...

From 3 stars chefs to female cooks, sommelières, entrepreneuses all around the world, meet innovativ...

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flou...