Women S Rights Movies

Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named...

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

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and...

In an alternate timeline where women are educated and obligated to bear children, one student struggles to change her fate.

A film portrayal of a pioneering aviator and best-selling author whose extraordinary public life had a deep impact on her inner world.

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind...

Two women rebel against the traditions of a village society.

Four stories set between the 60s and the 70s in Italy. Four personal female adventures crossing the path of Italian history, the struggle for women...

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

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of...

The story of two youngster girls who became the victims of female genital mutilation.

The words of the women and the rhythm of their lives in the seclusion of family compounds suggests both the satisfying and the limiting aspects of a...

A young girl is admitted to a hospital where she is informed of her eligibility for state service. A protracted war has resulted in a demographic...

A docu-drama shot in 1970, but not completed until 1973, the film sought to encapsulate in an experimental form issues that were under discussion...

If you don’t laugh, you’re dead

Filmmaker Jenny Rohrer explores the growing difference in voting patterns between men and women.