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A feminist film index

Exploring gender issues through cinema, feeling the power of visual narrative to drive social change.

125: 125 Films Total
42: 42 Countries
42: 42 Genres

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All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia

A groundbreaking work by Indian director Payal Kapadia, this historic masterpiece won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Following three women of different ages—Prabha, Anu, and Parvaty—working together at a hospital in Mumbai, it explores their complex personal lives and the power of their mutually supportive friendship. With its poetic visual language, the film deeply examines crucial themes including female friendship, intergenerational solidarity, identity formation in urban development, and gender politics in modern India.

The Marvels

Nia DaCosta

Bottoms

Emma Seligman

2023 · France / Tunisia / Germany / Saudi Arabia

Four Daughters

Les Filles d’Olfa

Kaouther Ben Hania

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Kelly Fremon Craig

Polite Society

Nida Manzoor

Women Talking

Sarah Polley

The Woman King

Gina Prince-Bythewood

2021 · Chad / France / Germany / Belgium

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

Lingui, les liens sacrés

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

2021 · Mexico / Germany / Brazil / Qatar

Prayers for the Stolen

Noche de fuego

Tatiana Huezo

2020 · Ireland

Wolfwalkers

Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman

Emma.

Autumn de Wilde