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Hitting the Ceiling

2023

The story behind the growth of women's and girls' volleyball in the United States and how it continues to bolster and empower young women in their development. Featuring direct interviews with players, coaches, and families, as well as footage of the 2022 Big South Qualifier tournament.

Journeys from Berlin/1971

1980 · ★ 8.8

An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.

TOMBOY

2017

TOMBOY explores the obstacles that young girls encounter on the recreational stage, the stereotypes, language issues and cultural disparities that follow, and ultimately the insufficient media coverage and compensation that afflicts elite professional athletes seeking full recognition for their talents. The journey of the female athlete is often discouraging, and despite progress achieved during the Title IX era, gender equity in athletics has a long way to go.

Elles prennent la parole

2017

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Women Don't Cycle

2022

A film about what it means to be a woman cycling in different countries around the world. When Manon left to cycle from Brussels to Tokyo, she took a camera with her and met other women cyclists along the way. Hear their stories!

Gloria's Call

2019 · ★ 3.3

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. This short film uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Now more than 40 years later, award-winning Dr. Gloria Feman Orenstein is a feminist art critic and pioneer scholar of women in Surrealism and ecofeminism in the arts. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.

Town Bloody Hall

1979 · ★ 5.8

On the evening of April 30, 1971, a standing room only audience of local literati and feminists packed New York City’s Town Hall to watch Norman Mailer, who had just written “The Prisoner of Sex,” grapple with a panel of passionate feminists. The subject was Women’s Liberation, an issue on which Mailer seemed like the devil’s own advocate.

Completely Different, Exactly the Same

At a crossroads of borders in the Balkans, Sabina Talović, a feminist activist, faces the violence of a patriarchal system with unwavering resolve. From the Yugoslav wars to the racism of new nationalisms, her voice bears witness to how acts of solidarity are always completely different while remaining fundamentally unchanged. A humbly caring and sharp debut film by Marianna Giorgia Marchesini.

I Could Never Be Your Woman

2007 · ★ 5.9

A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

2021 · ★ 6.6

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary.

Perfect Image?

1989 · ★ 9

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

Angela Vode: Secret Memories

2009

The life and rather obscure hardships of a Slovenian feminist author and human rights activist Angela Vode.