Movies: Women s liberation

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Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings....

Documentary on Sakine Cansız (Sara), the Kurdish revolutionary and PKK co-founder killed in Paris in January 2013 by Turkish agents....

Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the tiresome reality of gig-workers' identities against the absent bosses, masked behind their apps. Filmed...

In recent years, stories of older British women hooking up with younger Gambian men have made news headlines, from one-night stands to whirlwind weddings. But what's the truth behind the stories? Seyi Rhodes investigates....

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. A...

Born in Ukraine in 2008 in the wake of the "Orange Revolution," the feminist movement Femen fights for democracy, freedom of the press, women's rights, and against corruption, prostitution, sexism, racism, poverty, and religion. The activists quickly...

A jail setting juxtaposed against the wedding of Princess Diana on television thrusts both post modern irreverence and reification of icons onto the refracted visceral harshness of a spartan locked environment, capturing both the confining artifice o...

Women attending a suffragette club meeting wear pants, boss their husbands, neglect their kids, play poker, and fight. Their husbands stay home to care for the children and run the household....

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The story of those Italian women who, for eighty years, have fought against power in all its forms....