Women's Studies
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Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo
The story of Queer Filipnxs who, in the 1990s, against a racist, lesbophobic backdrop, came together to create a safe and loving community in New York City.More Information -
NEGRITA: Racially Black, Ethnically Latina
NEGRITA—a Spanish term meaning “little Black girl”—is a personal and probing documentary exploring how anti-Blackness in American and Latino cultures shapes the identities of Afro-Latina women.More Information -
To Build a Monument
Three Black queer individuals reflect on their connections to their ancestors. Inspired by Sakia Gunn's legacy, the film meditates on grief, death, queerness and ancestorhood.More Information -
Imelda Is Not Alone
Salvadorian teenager Imelda Cortez's only hope at freedom is a local citizen’s movement that dares to defend women who are persecuted under El Salvador's total ban on abortion. The result is a shocking account of an ongoing human rights crisis and a moving portrait of those who fight for a better society.More Information -
AI: African Intelligence
Granted rare access to Ndeup, a spiritual healing ceremony practiced by Lebou peoples in Senegal, filmmaker and writer Manthia Diawara wonders what connections can be made between the possession ritual and Western logic and technology.More Information -
Work and Respect
New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.More Information -
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What is a Line?
Weaving a narrative of a jilted lover with footage of a train in motion, this video is a darkly comedic study of the physical, psychological and emotional traumas jilted lovers go through.More Information -
What Do You Call An Indian Woman Who's Funny?
This humorous and comedic documentary, brings the laughs and dreams of four Indian women cabaret performers while posing the questions: What is comedy and who defines it? Is it culturally specific, or can anyone enjoy the joke? Does comedy always have to come from a white perspective in Britain to be taken seriously?More Information -
Walking Home
For the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.More Information -
Up Against the Wall Miss America (Newsreel #22)
This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents.More Information -
Unspoken
Through letter-writing, a community discussion, and a drag performance, six queer and trans Asian Americans grapple with their queerness and consider what family acceptance might look like.More Information -
Tunisian Women: We Will Stand Up
TUNISIAN WOMEN is a powerful record of the work of women activist in Tunisia and a celebration of Tunisia's extraordinary history of activism and resistance against authoritarian rule since the 1970s.More Information -
Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan Nettles
A powerful document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in 2013.More Information -
Three Queer Mice
This short youth-produced animation exposes homophobia to the tune of "Three Blind Mice".More Information -
The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.More Information -
The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille
From Marseille come the stories of North African women making new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France.More Information -
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A series of three short documentary films created by a group of immigrant and first generation women.More InformationSold out -
The Friends
A coming-of-age story about the friendship between two young Black girls growing up in 1957 Harlem, Phyllisia Cathy from a newly arrived, upwardly mobile Caribbean family, and Edith Jackson, Harlem-born and raised.More Information -
Sweet Sugar Rage
Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.More Information -
Solitary Alchemist, The
What happens when talent isn’t enough?More Information -
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Newsreel #48)
This documentary provides an in-depth examination of protest activities surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.More Information -
She Rhymes Like a Girl
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops.More Information -
Scene Not Heard
Shot in Philadelphia, this documentary features the work of female Hip-Hop artists Lady B, Schoolly D, Rennie Harris, Bahamadia, and Ursula Rucker.More Information -
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Reunion: West Indian Women at War
In 1943, 300 middle-class “coloured” women from across the West Indies were recruited to the ATS, a branch of the British Army during WW2.More Information -
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An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.More InformationSold out -
Photos of Angie
PHOTOS OF ANGIE tells the story of Mexican-American transgender teenager Angie Zapata, who was murdered in a hate crime in rural Greeley, Colorado in 2008.More Information -
Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa!
Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.More Information -
Out: The Making of a Revolutionary
Convicted of the 1983 U.S. Capitol Bombing, and "conspiring to influence, change, and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means", Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in prison.More Information -
Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness in the Bronx
Dance artists Sita Frederick, Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, and Marion Ramirez collaborate to create a performance work that explores Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.More Information -
My Country Occupied (Newsreel #151)
In this moving film, the personal testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, peasants, and guerrillas are dramatized to provide the narration for a powerful overview of the history of U.S. destabilization of democracy in Central America.More Information -
Mama Gloria
A 75-year-old Black trailblazing transgender activist who started a charm school for homeless trans youth and is now aging with joy and grace.More Information -
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Living Quechua
One Peruvian woman’s mission to revive her indigenous language becomes an inspiration for Quechua speakers, a historically marginalized community in New York City.More Information -
Living Along the Fenceline
The U.S. has 1,000 bases worldwide. The Pentagon says they make us secure. These women disagree.More Information -
Little Immigrants
LITTLE IMMIGRANTS is an insider's look into child smuggling captured from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.More Information -
Ladies of the Gridiron
The Quake is a professional women's tackle football team out to break the glass ceiling of this traditionally all-male sport.More Information -
La Cocina de las Patronas
Day after day, for over 20 years, a group of women in Mexico, prepare and give meals to Central American migrants who travel atop La Bestia, a U.S.-bound freight train.More Information -
La Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Art, labor, and family blend in this intimate film about Latina performance artist Caridad De La Luz, better known as ‘La Bruja’.More Information -
Juggling Gender: Politics, Sex and Identity
A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian performer who lives her life with a full beard.More Information -
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor
A street vendor, mother and activist from Guatemala makes $40 a day in New york City, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.More Information -
Janie's Janie (Newsreel #)
"First I was my father's Janie, then I was my Charlie's Janie, now I'm Janie's Janie." --Jane GieseMore Information -
Invisible
Children Living with HIV / AIDS.More Information -
Inside Women Inside
This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons.More Information -
In My Genes
Documentary about the harsh realities of living with Albinism in Kenya.More Information -
In Bed with a Mosquito
IN BED WITH A MOSQUITO is an intimate portrait of activism and aging in New York City.More Information -
In a Perfect World…
A documentary film about men raised by single mothers.More Information -
I'm Free Now, You Are Free
A short documentary about the reunion and repair between Mike Africa Jr and his mother Debbie Africa—a formerly incarcerated political prisoner of the MOVE9.More Information -
Home
This series of shorts documents the lives of Beiruti women.More Information -
History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself
In this experimental documentary, filmmaker Stéphane Gérard searches for the LGBT activist community that was born out of the Stonewall Uprising.More Information -
From Asia With Love
A critical look at the proliferation of the mail-order bride industry in Asia and its representations of Asian women in the West.More Information -
Foster Care Film Series: Volume 1
In this award-winning collection, Charell, Ashley, and Camilla share their deeply personal stories about their experiences in foster care and how it impacted their lives.More Information -
Flow
FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations.More Information -
Family Portrait in Black and White
Olga Nenya is a foster mother to sixteen Black orphans in Ukraine - where 99.9% of the population is white and where race matters.More Information -
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides
Three journalists trace their mothers’ tumultuous journey in new film about WWII Japanese war brides.More Information -
Extra Change
A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.More Information -
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Exposes the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, NJ.More Information -
Dreaming Rivers
This short fiction piece explores the thoughts and dreams of a middle-aged Afro-Caribbean immgrant in England on her deathbed.More Information -
Demarcations
DEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape.More Information -
Daughters of Mother India
DAUGHTERS OF MOTHER INDIA reveals the aftermath of the horrific rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in December 2012.More Information -
Creative Detours
A young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest to develop her writing. Distracted from her new creative lifestyle, she is soon challenged by her best friend to work harder to foster her own growth as an artist.More Information -
Conquering Fear a.k.a. Overcoming Fear
An empowering fiction film about women’s property rights and domestic violence.More Information -
Commander Clelia: Political Prisoner
Five women, including FMLN Commander Lilian Mercedes Letona "Clelia", speak about their imprisonment after they are released from the Women's Prison of Ilopango when the Salvadoran government declared a general amnesty for political prisoners in 1983.More Information -
Claiming Our Voice
In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.More Information -
Catching Babies: Celebrating the Power of Birth, Mothers and Midwives
What if we could change the world by changing the way babies are born? Shot in El Paso, Texas, CATCHING BABIES tells the stories of mothers and midwives on the journey to bring life into the world.More Information -
Bringin' in Da Spirit
A celebration of women who have committed themselves to midwifery amidst powerful misconceptions about the practice and virulent opposition from practitioners of Western medicine.More Information -
black enuf*
A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging.More Information -
AWOL
Keisha Johnson, an African American soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq after she flees a violent incident.More Information -
All the Ladies Say
Documentary on Female BreakdancersMore Information -
A Ride Out (Una Vuelta)
After a one-night affair, a Latina’s examines her heritage in the context of passion and the erotic.More Information -
A Nice Arrangement
Set in the London home of an Indian family on the morning of their daughter's wedding, this film is a wry depiction of one of the most central of Indian traditions -- the arranged marriage.More Information -
A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
A Litany For Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (52)
An epic portrait of award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde.More Information -
A Dream Is What You Wake Up From
A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role of Black families in American society.More Information -
A Day of Plane Hunting
Vietnamese women played a crucial role in the Vietnam War.More Information -
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality
In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.More Information -
A 1994 Video Book
Beverly Singer from the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo muses aloud about history, personal and national, marks moments of regret and of insight in her life.More Information -
COVER/AGE
Sickness does not discriminate. Why should healthcare?More Information -
A Week with Azar
Azar, an Iranian computer engineer living in the United States, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769.More Information -
Chasing the Moon
This fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street.More Information -
Before David
A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.More Information
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