Womanhood Movies

"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young...

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

"Night Shift" follows 18-year-old Cheryl and best friend Darcy as they waste away the Summer of ’85 waiting tables at the only diner in their...

Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.

A short documentary examining the consequence of time within the fragility of memory, exposing a sense of self, trapped within materiality and...

The last of my school friends who was still single is getting married. When did I leave the path everyone else was following? Why don’t any of...

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return...

When barred from church camp activities due to a dress code violation, teenage Paige finds an unlikely friendship with a sailboat instructor who...

Jessica is a young Haitian girl. Newly orphaned in Port-au-Prince, she finds herself at her "cousin" Johanne's. Johanne is a girl without resources...

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved into their family′s house as a...

Hello, My Name Is Lesbian shows modern lesbian lifestyle and culture in all it’s diversity as it is lived in one of the most sexually liberated...

Anora, a Tajik teenage girl, experiences the coming of age. Due to the ambiguity related to her absent father, the closed borders caused by the...

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by...

Josephine Nilsson dies trying to terminate her second pregnancy after giving up for adoption her first child, Carl T. Dreyer. A gender and class...

A short film about identity, loss, and finding your way in a cold and lonely world.

Temple Road is a journey into the heart of womanhood, taking its name from the road that leads to the temple in the director’s hometown of...

Sawsan is 22-years-old and, like many her age who still live at home: feels suffocated and regularly fights with her parents. Eventually she decides...