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3) Glow
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Someone who glows so brightly is not going to grow old," Fellini prophesied about Irene Staub, aka Lady Shiva, one of the all-time greatest Swiss divas. Though Irene had a vibrant career as a model and singer in an underground Zürich band between 1968 and the late 80s, she died far too young. Through archival footage and interviews with prominent figures, director Gabriel Baur tells her story.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As the world grappled with pandemic isolation, Edith Espinal entered her third year of sanctuary in a Midwestern church. A SHELTER FOR EDITH sheds light on the solitary life of one undocumented woman and the threat that sent her indoors--not the pandemic, but the fear that ICE could tear her family apart.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE is a playful and reverent collaboration with the natural...
7) I Am Skylar
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The emotionally compelling story of an articulate 14-year-old girl who is thoughtfully defining her future and the woman she is to become. Surrounded by a family and a community who show her unconditional love as she follows her personal path, Skylar faces the complexities of being a transgender girl on the cusp of puberty with refreshing honesty and unshakeable dignity.
8) Sewing Woman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1982.
Description
Chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman’s determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Produced in 1982 and Oscar®-nominated for Best Short Documentary, this classic film continues to screen widely and is now treasured by a new generation of film goers.SEWING WOMAN is based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, an immigrant...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
An award-winning film about the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown – the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history – and its aftermath. Featuring Jane Fonda, the film uncovers the never-before-told stories of four intrepid homemakers who take their local community's case against the plant operator all the way to the Supreme Court – and a young female journalist who's caught in the radioactive crossfire.
11) Las Abogadas
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Follows four immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war.From setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to persuading border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana,...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Explores the life and times of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. The film tells her story of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity that for her is in conversation with trans-masculinity. Keenly attuned to the societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself, a study influenced by her love for a sport –...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The advent of electronic music in the 20th century was a radical break from all musical traditions that came before it. Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy...
Publisher
PeaceJam Foundation
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
This is the story of a young mother living in Northern Ireland fifty years ago, as her country teetered on the brink of civil war. The film tells the tale of a quiet revolution, requiring tremendous courage, that began when three little children were killed. Hundreds of thousands of people — mainly women — rose up to demand that their country change, and then took the concrete action necessary to create that change, themselves. With never-before-seen...
15) Golda
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed by Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after another, she spoke freely, pleading her case for her term as Prime Minister: five turbulent years that secured her place in history, albeit at a high personal cost.
16) Our Body
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health challenges we all face, even the filmmaker herself.
17) Servant or Slave
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In Australia, during the era of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian Government. SERVANT OR SLAVE follows the lives of five such women, stolen from their families and trained to be domestic servants and later forced into slave labour where they endured immense hardship, rape and even torture - coerced into remaining silent or even punished for reporting...
18) Poor things
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices...
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