In this inspiring and heartwarming documentary, experienced Hollywood talent agent Sandi Marx decides to take up a new …
Conceived as a kind of carousel of inspiring stories of women over sixty, this documentary will change your preconcepti…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
Made by Academy Award-nominated director Dana Adam Shapiro, this intrepid film tells the story of the Dallas Cowboys Ch…
Scientists, doctors, natural and surrogate mothers, hospitals, fertilization labs. This fascinating documentary explain…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
Gravitating on the border between reality and the dream, this short film delves into the feelings of a woman who suffer…
After serving on the war front in Ukraine, Oksana Yakubova wages an invisible struggle with post-traumatic stress disor…
A woman living in downtown Cairo tries to support her family by selling potato chips. Known as "Potatoes lady" she star…
In this experimental film, artists Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović make animated female sculptures that invade …
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
Filmed in 1981, this all time classic documentary follows the evolution of four American women during a demanding milit…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
Inside a car driving through the streets of Tehran, a recurring motif in Iranian cinema, three female passengers tell t…
A theater group composed of peasant women from rural Turkey embarks on a journey to a remote town in the mountains of t…
What is it like to be a female tattoo artist in a male-dominated art? In this documentary, world-famous tattoo artist D…
A new season of the Polish women's soccer league is about to begin. The goals are high, but these players will give the…
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
Through interviews with Korean female workers of the present, we are taken back decades to unveil the labor oppression …
A woman with a troubled past embarks on a journey to the open sea carrying a message to the grieving families of fisher…
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
Nine women recount their experiences in managing their mental health and madness. The documentary delves into how these…
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
Four people who have opted for plastic surgery to correct their bodies tell us about this experience in their personal …
Cancer survivor Melanie Griffith narrates this gripping and educational documentary about the invention that could save…
In the fields of southern France, a young shepherdess will have to learn how to kill the animals she works and lives wi…
Stories of women of the past and present gravitate in a palace on the coast of Normandy, France, a sort of refuge where…
Josefina, the filmmaker's grandmother, settles in a remote village next to a mysterious forest. When several fires star…
Angelica has a problem with her sexuality, a psychological and physical blockage. Through a video diary, shared with tw…
This documentary takes us to Guangzhou, China, where three enterprising African women try to make their way in business…
How to talk about sexual abuse? From where can a survivor tell about it without breaking into tears? This is a courageo…
Three women in their sixties embark on the greatest adventure of their lives: To cross Europe from Lithuania to France …
Film footage from the era is interwoven with interviews with music lovers to make a portrait of Maxine Sullivan, the ti…
Featuring icons such as Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, Anna Mae Winburn and Pauline Brady, this short film portrays the women …
In times where modern medicine has progressively intervened in maternal childbirth, a woman embarks on a journey where …
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
After going blind while grieving the loss of her two children, a seventy-eight year old woman decides to overcome the s…
A Google Earth map lands in a bucolic French countryside landscape. Among a group of young people is Anastasia, a young…
At 81 years old, Erika and Tine are a couple out of the mold. As artists who defied East German repression, they now hu…
Told with snippets from films of the time, before us is the incredible biography of Leonie Brandt, an actress who serve…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
This is the inspiring story of Eva Kor. In the Holocaust, she was a victim of Nazi experiments conducted by Mengele. Af…
This documentary, awarded at the prestigious IDFA, films over the years two Iranian girls from their religious initiati…
In 1965, a group of intrepid young women didn't know they were making history by participating in a survival adventure …
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