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Through Women's Eyes
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As the world suffocates, a helpless father fights desperately to keep his family breathing, gambling his own.
3 min | 2024 | Bangladesh
Airborne Abyss
A teenage girl desperate for an abortion faces off with a physician assistant.
7 min | 2024 | United States
Baby Love
BOOK CLUB takes viewers on an emotional and personal journey through the lives of eight American women, bonded by a book club formed 70 years ago. At a time when social standards prohibited married women from continuing their careers, a group of women decided to use their book club to keep up with what was going on in the world. What they didn't anticipate was how the poignant words of the authors united them not only for these monthly gatherings, but bound them together for the journey of a lifetime.
70 min | 2013 | USA
Book Club
Luisa Capetillo, the Puerto Rican revolutionary, engages in a heated discussion with her boss upon arriving at work wearing men's pants and a blazer in early 20th century Puerto Rico. She won't back down give up until she makes her message clear.
22 min | 2024 | Puerto Rico
Capetillo
In public, how can you tell someone is a woman? Seriously, what do you look for? Is it their hair? Or their clothes? Shoes? A purse? You’ve probably got an image in your head of what’s…feminine. But millions of women don’t appreciate the cultural pressure to look “a certain way;” they prefer the short hair, pants with pockets, flat shoes, and other hallmarks society has labeled “masculine.” What happens? A fascinating look at the code-switching people exhibit when they can’t label someone clearly by gender, and the challenges of choosing to present yourself as you wish.
36 min | 2021 | USA
The Grey Area
On a desolate American farm in the early 1900’s a farmer is found murdered in his sleep, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. Two women, a neighbor and the sheriff’s wife, find themselves in the accused woman’s kitchen while the prosecuting attorney and their husbands search the farm for a motive for the crime. As each new clue further incriminates the accused, the women must decide whether to reveal the evidence against her or become, in effect, a jury of her peers. The rerelease of this feminist film classic, adapted from the 1917 Susan Glaspell short story, presents a riveting tale of revenge, justice, and women’s shared experience.
30 min | 1980 | United States
A Jury of Her Peers
German Grandma Rita Ebel – Lego Oma – is a thrice-married water skier who never stepped away from an athletic challenge. At least, until she experienced a car accident which broke her spine and paralyzed her from the waist down. Rita has had to find new ways to participate in sports and the other activities she loves from her wheelchair. She does that, and more; her humor, upbeat demeanor, and honesty are infectious.
13 min | 2023 | Germany
Lego Oma
The men in this traditional, conservative village in Pakistan aren’t sure they want young girls playing sports, much less competing in a cricket match far from home. Plus the girls have no equipment, and little money for anything else. But the girls, and their unusual coach, think they can prevail. Mesmerizing, even if you don’t know much about cricket!
26 min | 2021 | Pakistan
Outswing
Millie is The Paint Wizzard, is a transgender housepainter who lives and works out of her bright yellow RV in Austin TX. Just a few years ago at the age of 58, Millie finally gained the courage to come out into the world as her true self.
18 min | 2020 | United States
The Paint Wizzard
Investigating her late grandmother's past leads to an old Brazilian woman living in an abandoned pool. Why? Walk through history to find out.
30 min | 2016 | Brazil
Piscina (Pool)
Power Meri is the true story of sports, sexism, and building bridges for change. Follow the PNG Orchids, Papua New Guinea's first national women's rugby league team, on their journey to the World Cup in Australia.
75 min | 2018 | Australia
Power Meri
A young woman in Down East, Maine, is a brave" lobsterman" who feels a deep connection with the sea. She straddles the traditional - a dedicated fourth-generation lobsterman who embraces the role she was born to play - and the modern - a single mother by choice who created her son with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. A fascinating look at a woman who is consigning gender stereotypes to the past while living very much her own life.
17 min | 2022 | USA
Saltlines
As long as people and vessels are on the water, search and rescue operations will be needed. Yet operating conditions are always challenging: search and rescue teams face constant risks, chronic funding shortages, and changing weather patterns due to climate change.
31 min | 2022 | Scotland
Searchlight
Never tell an older woman what she can't do! Octogenarian Fran Vall holds a 6th-degree black belt in Judo and a 5th-degree in Japanese sword fighting.
20 min | 2019 | USA
Sensei Fran Kicks Ass
"The Suit" is a deeply affecting story about a woman and her granddaughter from rural Nebraska, who go in search of a suit; a seemingly simple task that is ultimately revealed to have a more profound purpose.
20 min | 2024 | United States
The Suit
Naomi seems like a typical nine-year-old girl, until her passion for power lifting transforms her life with world record-breaking championships and national news headlines.
80 min | 2016 | USA
Super Girl
For some, aging isn’t fun. But these women - and men - have chosen to age with purpose and joy and fun.
Theme Block 1: Aging with Purpose
Travel to Cuba and Pakistan for a look at how some trailblazers are making social change happen.
Theme Block 2: Challenging Roles, Changing Norms
These films focus on different aspects of the LGBTQ experience. All three have been some of our most-loved films by all audiences because they carry such universal messages.
Theme Block 3: LGBTQ Stories
We find activists of all types inspirational. These two films, set nearly a century apart, remind us that taking a stand makes a difference.
Theme Block 4: Taking a Stand
Travel around the globe to Senegal, Scotland, and the USA, with these spectacular looks at how we live with and around water.
Theme Block 5: Water, Water Everywhere
Two Kinds of Water explores the lives of a family living in the Guet Ndar fishing community on Senegal’s north coast – a country whose name literally means ‘our boat’.
23 min | 2022 | Senegal
Two Kinds of Water
America is at a crossroads where politicians, traditional media, and social media fan the flames of toxic partisanship. Many Americans question whether they can trust their fellow citizens. Six focus groups across three American cities explore the twisted landscape of toxic polarization, revealing how it drives us to places fundamentally un-American. UNDIVIDE US is not just a documentary; it’s a timely and urgent plea to reclaim the nation’s soul through open discourse, mutual respect, and civic engagement. UNDIVIDE US stands as a beacon of hope and a call to action. A must-see for this most urgent issue of our day.
75 min | 2023 | USA
UNDIVIDE US
Some people live to dance. We dance to live. A dance teacher and her students ages 49-85 go into the Pandemic alone and come out of it together. The film we make explores how we move through space and time, finding new relevance and joy.
37 min | 2024 | United States
Why We Dance
Wollongong, New South Wales,1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks, the city's main employer, working class and immigrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a 14-year campaign for the right to work, a campaign that pitted them against BHP, the richest and most powerful company in Australia. In WOMEN OF STEEL, they tell their personal stories – from the unemployment line to the factory gate to the High Court. This is an exciting, inspiring, and often humorous story of a group of seemingly ordinary women, determined to overcome a giant - and a history lesson in a multi-year campaign against discrimination.
56 min | 2020 | Australia
Women of Steel