Women S Rights Movies

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives...

If you don’t laugh, you’re dead

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink...

Outlawed in Pakistan tells the story of Kainat Soomro as she takes her rape case to Pakistan's deeply flawed court system in hopes of getting...

After being brutally murdered, the spirit of a traumatized mother embarks on a desperate quest to protect the child she left behind, only to discover...

Hajar is a 55-years-old Bahktiari woman from Iran who is betrayed by her family and forced to abandon her nomadic lifestyle. Climate change,...

In a mountainous but extremely green landscape goats jump over the rocks and laughing children run after them. In this paradise on earth, nomadic...

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in...

June 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be...

Behind The Looking Glass is a film about the lives of women whose partners have or want to ‘transition’. While we hear a great deal of...

"Caged (In) and Out", by Rishabh Jain, a jarring account of domestic domestic violence in India. The film produced in-house by JIBS, sheds light on...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

A group of women and non-binary journalists, bucking the white male status quo, launch The 19th*—a digital news startup that asks who has been...

Testimonies about the social and feminine marginality of female residents. The need to face problems through collective discussion. Filmed in a camp...

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Everyone was surprised at the triumph of Hamas in the last Palestinian elelctions, but the bigger surprise was that the women were behind that...

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a...