Movies: Women in film

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman....

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons....

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Be...

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene...

A young transgender woman's pursuit of self-acceptance in the face of societal barriers unfolds in the transformative backdrop of 1990s New York City....

A story told in four parts, "He" explores the swell of poetic love and the breathless aftermath of its heartache....

What do fictional characters do with the rest of their lives, once their stories have been told? This charmingly offbeat, deadpan fantasy attempts to answer that question....

DIVA! is the voice of the unrestrained feminine. Our love letter to self-expression and autonomy....

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice....

Genevieve attempts to navigate her life with DID, but begins to see flashbacks of memories she had no part in creating. Nervous of how dangerous she may be, she descends into hallucinations as she gets closer to the origin of her trauma....

In this adrenaline-fueled story, the world of women's mixed martial arts is rocked by an explosive showdown between reigning champion Cassady Jones and rising star Alexa Star. The clash of these two titans sends shockwaves through the EFC, as the fut...

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of ...

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to ...

A woman wakes up on a beach tied in a plastic press wearing only underwear and high heels. “Not again”, she sighs and decides to track down the enemy and strike back. She gets a companion from an older woman, who has been pushed to the borders of soc...

A witch and other strange things live in the attic above lonely, dope-addled artist, Grey Neilson. After meeting Renee, Grey struggles to appease these beings, as she tries to find her place in the outside world....

A popular group of video game content creators must face the ultimate lesson in teamwork when a haunted multiplayer game begins killing them one by one....

Hannah wasn't always happy about the existence of her 'Vajayjay'. She talks about how she used to imagine having sex would be like a Céline Dion song and how she discovered masturbation thanks to her PlayStation controller. She's in a love-hate relat...

Experimental thriller about a female assassin who avenged the killing of a friend and now becomes the hunted....

After the tragic and sudden death of her father, Isabel, a 17-year-old girl, is forced to move to a neighborhood on the outskirts of Valencia and start from scratch in a high school where she is bullied. There she meets Lola, a troubled teenager who ...

Poppy is a greatly misunderstood fashion design student who is pushed to the limit by her professor and competitive classmates as she designs her ambitious fashion show costume....