Female Empowerment Movies

The forró musical genre from Northeastern Brazil is a male-dominated industry. Some of the few female musicians who managed to fight prejudice...

Light Upon Light: A Documentary on Hijab is an intimate and deeply personal exploration of the diverse, raw, and untold stories of hijabi women....

Two girls in their early 20s explore topics of femininity, girlhood, and normalized violence perpetrated on women.

Mina Bakhshi, Haniya Tavasoli and Rabia Hussain had a fair amount of latitude for women in Afghanistan, able to pursue their education, go to work,...

This documentary speaks to local activist groups in the music industry and culture scene to find out why people are driven to fight back and speak...

Laura never had independence. Her mother, her abusive ex-boyfriend, always something holding her. When she goes to Coimbra to study, she finds the...

With the help of her family, Bee puts on a period party to celebrate the return of her period after a battle with anorexia. Mum's neurotic, Dad's...

Maura is a black woman, mother of 7 children and recyclable material collector in one of the largest cities in Latin America. While she works hard...

A documentary film from New Hampshire Sea Grant following the stories of women in New Hampshire's traditionally male-dominated seafood and...