The hairdressing salon “Saïda” is a space where people speak openly, laugh and argue. The subject rarely is hair. In the run-up to the presidential elections in Tunisia the shop turns into a political arena where the women – young or old, conservative or with a modern outlook – indulge in discussions about the pros and cons of the candidates. Their clever and witty statements reflect a young democracy with all its rifts and fault lines.

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

Oxana is a woman, a fighter, an artist. As a teenager, her passion for iconography almost inspires h...

Diving deep into the true causes of the Great Recession, the financial crisis of the 2010s, renowned...

In 2010, the iconic Tote Hotel – last bastion of Melbourne’s vibrant music counterculture – was forc...

The film exposes the links between Agrifood and politics. With a pool of international experts it an...

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...
A Woman's Place is the first film about the UK women's liberation movement. Crockford and her co-pro...

This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Mısra and Defne are close friends and duet partners who met each other through synchronized swimming...

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...

A portrait of the diverse opinions of Chicagoans as they reflect on the general state of affairs in ...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

An experimental short film about killing in the cinema, on the street or at the time of filming