Women S Rights Movies

June 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be...

In the suburbs of Montpellier, France, in the spring of 2024, a Roma wedding celebration is about to begin. In the bedroom of a small apartment,...

Women talk about the circumstances that drove them to seek illegal abortions and the often traumatic result. Interwoven with historical photographs...

There is a world beyond our world where men say NO to Women when it comes to the making decision. Most women suffer extreme inequality, but only few...

Half a million wives work with their husbands in family-run businesses, but most have no legal title to any part of the operation. This documentary...

Estimados Señores sheds light on the little-known suffragette movement in Colombia. Set in 1954, the film follows Esmeralda Arboleda, a...

According to the laws of Iran, Bahareh must have her traditional, chauvinistic husband accompany her to driving lessons so she and her instructor...

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

Inés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her...

Kismateen, a 24-year-old brass band player in Old Delhi, tries to find his smile back with dental implants after being forcefully separated from the...

An introduction to the employment picture in Canada in the late 1950s, designed to inform potential immigrants of job opportunities existing for...

The women of Ghana have a reputation for independence. They, rather than the men, sit enthroned at the market stalls and run a large proportion of...

Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan looks to history and psychology as he delves into the possible reasons behind the demolition of the Babri Mosque.

Juxtaposing scenes from the 1967 Royal Commission on the Status of Women with the 2nd Pan-Canadian Young Feminist Gathering in 2011 in Winnipeg,...

Motherhood: a subject so deeply ingrained in our society, we take it for granted as part of the natural order. It's assumed all women want children,...