Patriarchy Movies

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my...

Social media superstar Qandeel Baloch pushed boundaries in conservative Pakistan like no other. In 2016, high on her newfound celebrity, Qandeel...

The country house, the only inheritance from the grandfather, was bequeathed to the eldest grandson. Upon hearing this news, the mother cannot simply...

While the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war rages on far away from Baku, Azerbaijan, Banu has four days to find someone to support her in court against her...

It is the 1980s. Jens and his brothers live in a single-family house in Risskov, a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark. Here, the family's patriarch...

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and...

Lucentio loves Bianca but cannot court her until her shrewish older sister Katherina marries. The eccentric Petruccio marries the reluctant Katherina...

A Japan-set battle-royale comedy over a vial of sperm is centered around three women on the verge of a nervous breakdown from hearing their...

Shirish and Geeta run a rickshaw driver over and have dramatically opposing reactions to the tragedy. Shirish moves on, hiding behind the invisible...

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

A traditional wedding procession walks along a narrow street towards the home of the bride. Guests and family members are waiting inside the home on...

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public...

In 10th century Norway, a young shaman is forced to hunt down her outlaw sister.

In 1930’s British India, sixteen-year-old Indira finds herself torn between true love, her duty to follow through with an arranged marriage,...

"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a...

Love blossoms secretly between two old women at an elderly care home while the specter of patriarchy looms large overhead.

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.

Marina and Perla join thousands of women on an annual Catholic pilgrimage. Perla's coming of age accentuates a generational divide as she struggles...