Mulher na Varanda
2024 · Documentary
More Like This
Freedom Road: Women / Ikwewag
2019
Shoal Lake 40 women talk about their struggles, and those of their parents and grandparents, in trying to raise their families in a hazardous state of enforced isolation. Everyone in the community has a harrowing story of a loved one falling through the ice while trying to get across the lake, with pregnant women and new mothers fearing for their babies and having no choice but to make the trek in dangerous conditions. The film shows the key role of the community’s women in demanding funding for the road from three levels of government, and how their reconnection to culture and ceremony give them the strength to keep going.
More info →
Women, Maasai and rangers - The lionesses of Kenya
2022 · ★ 8
Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every day to track down wildlife. The Maasai shepherds also have their villages here. Conflicts can hardly be avoided. The young women are often called to missions to mediate or comfort. The two Maasai women themselves have to fight against discrimination
More info →
Hay mujeres que asustan a los hombres
The dance of the voladores is a ritual originating in Mesoamerica, before the Spanish occupation. There are also women, Viviana Guerrero, from Zozocolco, Karina Baltazar, from Cuetzalan and Barbara Rivera, from the congregation of El Tajin in Veracruz, who have dreamed of flying since they were little. who dreamed of flying since they were little. Now they are flying women. Karina, who follows the family tradition, is the first woman flyer. Although it is not well accepted among men, they reaffirm themselves as flyers who follow the tradition of their fathers and grandfathers. and grandparents' tradition.
More info →
Lorraine Pintal - So The Light Never Dies
2019
Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize, this tribute film was created as a gift for Lorraine Pintal, director of Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. Featuring some of the most memorable characters and performers of Pintal’s career, the film’s succession of surreal scenes from different dramatic worlds introduces viewers to the exceptional woman of theatre, stage director, and friend whom they consider to be the “ghost light” of Quebec theatre.
More info →
All American
2024 · ★ 10
In this modern, coming of age documentary, Naomi, Jojo and Arham grapple with economic divides, gender roles, and family dynamics while competing in the fastest growing high school sport in the country: girl’s wrestling.
More info →
FLOAT!
2023 · ★ 7
With depth, intimacy, and humor, FLOAT! captures filmmaker Azza Cohen's magnetic grandma’s life-affirming journey learning to swim at 82, inspiring audiences to defy societal expectations of aging and to boldly look forward at every stage.
More info →
Homesick
2023
A woman's voice narrates in a voiceover the state of her body after a male sexual assault.
More info →
Unsere Zeit, Unser Zustand.
2023
In fragments, three women talk about their limiting living conditions and their experiences of violence. Not showing their faces ensures a protection they have lacked in their previous experiences. Images of masculinity make what is told indirect.
More info →
love, amma
2022
After being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a young mother writes a letter to her daughter about their family’s collective journey to acceptance.
More info →