Feminism Movies

Yoko Ono plays with our sense of anticipation by constructing a metaphor for the liberation of the female body and self.

'Figure I' uses a feminist perspective to frame and deconstruct patriarchal techniques of control. This film asks: how was a patriarchal gaze...

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." -...

The road from the kitchen to parliament was long and rocky for Swiss women - four generations had to fight for the male electorate to grant women the...

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha’s "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the...

Dora is a German-raised teenager visiting her enigmatic Brazilian grandmother for the first time. While trying to return to Germany at all costs, she...

Far from the dictates of current female beauty, MBMR focuses on these other bodies, those who take up space, those that stain, biters, those who...

Triggered by congressman Jair Bolsonaro’s homage to the torturer Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, during president Dilma Rousseff’s...

The cult film *Dirty Dancing* (1987) made cinema history with its iconic soundtrack, unforgettable dance scenes, and summer romance. Yet, beneath the...

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns...

The bodies of women lying on the ground weave relationships around them, they breastfeed, they connect with the ground ... Carla Simón's first...

York University alumni Mandi Gray is forced to grapple with a university administration, legal system and police force unwilling to take seriously...

In her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the...

Battlefield is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements, an imaginary journey between different representations of femininity, in a process of...

A waitress learns about a chance to become a general manager at the diner she works at, and has to decide if she wants to compromise her morals or...

When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.