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.

The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a ...
How to combine modernity and fundamentalist Islam. "Saudi Solutions" is a unique and revealing docum...

“Touch one, touch us all” is a slogan of the women who took over the streets in Brazil and organized...

Documents a woman's actual pregnancy; the emotions, the affects on her husband and first-born child,...

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

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

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

She Makes Comics traces the fascinating history of women in the comics industry. Despite popular ass...

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

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

Alberta, Julia, and Catalina are three Chatino migrant women who have had to leave their communities...

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

Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, t...

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

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

They are clad in the religiously correct abaja, are not allowed to drive and yet still go their own ...

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

Authors, teachers, social activists and feminists explore manifestations of contemporary women's spi...
And urban planner's journey to making the impossible possible.