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Explore powerful cinema that challenges perspectives and illuminates the feminist experience through storytelling

🎥 88 films total
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All Films (88 films)

Women Talking

Women Talking

A drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley, adapted from Miriam Toews' novel of the same name. Set in a Bolivian Mennonite community, following a group of women who gather to discuss their future after discovering systematic sexual assault by men in their community. The film deeply explores important issues including religious patriarchy critique, collective trauma and healing, women's political awakening, and the power of silence versus voice.

查看详情 104 min
2022
USA

Women Talking

Sarah Polley

Drama Social Issues Feminist
Religious Patriarchy Critique Anti-Sexual Violence +4
She Said

She Said

A journalism drama directed by Maria Schrader, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. Adapted from the non-fiction book by New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, following their investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault scandal. The film deeply explores important issues including the #MeToo movement, gender politics in journalism, the power of women's testimony, and the courage needed to break silence.

查看详情 128 min
2022
USA

She Said

Maria Schrader

Drama Biography Crime
MeToo Movement Anti-Sexual Violence +4
The Woman King

The Woman King

A historical action epic directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, starring Viola Davis. Set against the backdrop of the 19th-century West African Kingdom of Dahomey's all-female warrior regiment, the Agojie, following General Nanisca as she trains a new generation of female warriors to defend the kingdom. The film explores important themes of Black female power, African historical narrative, decolonialism, and women's military leadership.

查看详情 135 min
2022
USA

The Woman King

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Action Drama History
Black Feminism Decolonial Feminism +4
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

A groundbreaking sci-fi comedy-fantasy film starring Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese-American immigrant mother who must save the world across the multiverse. Directed by the Daniels, this film redefines the concept of action heroes through its profound exploration of Asian American women, intergenerational relationships, identity, and family dynamics.

查看详情 139 minutes
2022
USA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Science Fiction Comedy Action
Immigrant Identity Family Liberation +3
The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter

Adapted from Elena Ferrante's novel, tells the story of middle-aged literature professor Leda whose Greek vacation is disrupted by a young mother who triggers painful memories of her own motherhood. This psychological drama explores the contradictions of motherhood, conflicts between female self-realization and maternal expectations, and society's idealizing pressure on the mother role through complex narrative structure.

查看详情 121 min
2021
USA

The Lost Daughter

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Drama Psychological Thriller
Motherhood Critique Feminist Psychology +4
Happening

Happening

Adapted from Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, following a 23-year-old French university student's desperate and dangerous journey seeking abortion in 1960s France when it was illegal. Directed by Audrey Diwan, this award-winning film deeply explores reproductive autonomy, body politics, class inequality, and women's predicament in patriarchal society, becoming a powerful testimony to contemporary women's rights struggles.

查看详情 100 min
2021
France

Happening

Audrey Diwan

Drama Social Issues Biographical
Reproductive Autonomy Abortion Rights +4
Skater Girl

Skater Girl

The coming-of-age story of Prerna, a teenage girl from a remote village in Rajasthan who discovers skateboarding and challenges traditional gender expectations and social norms. This family-friendly inspirational film explores Indian rural women's educational rights, gender equality, caste system, and the transformative role of sports in women's empowerment through skateboarding.

查看详情 109 min
2021
India

Skater Girl

Manjari Makijany

Drama Family Sports
Gender Norms Education Equality +4
Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers

In 1650 Kilkenny, Ireland, the friendship story between English girl Robyn and wild girl Mebh. This hand-drawn animation masterpiece fuses Irish folklore with feminist themes, deeply exploring gender role constraints, environmental protection, cultural colonialism, and female friendship and empowerment through two girls' journey of challenging patriarchal constraints and embracing natural forces.

查看详情 103 min
2020
Ireland

Wolfwalkers

Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart

Animation Fantasy Adventure
Female Friendship Gender Norms +4
The Forty-Year-Old Version

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Nearly 40-year-old African American playwright Radha decides to reinvent herself as a rapper after facing setbacks in New York's art world. This semi-autobiographical black-and-white film deeply explores ageism, intersectional oppression of race and gender, artistic autonomy, and middle-aged women's identity reconstruction in male-dominated industries.

查看详情 123 min
2020
USA

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Radha Blank

Drama Comedy Music
Intersectional Feminism Race and Gender +4
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always is necessary viewing. A tiny independent film that topped critics' best-of lists, it's about a pair of friends who are forced to travel from their small Pennsylvania town to New York City in search of medical aid for an unwanted pregnancy.

查看详情 101 minutes
2020
USA

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman

Drama Social Realism
Abortion Rights Reproductive Autonomy +4

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