A dance project in a prison, with disabled children. Describes a unique project taking place in Blundeston Prison, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Inmates are taught dance in order to work with children from Warren Hill Special School. Two groups of children come in to the prison each week. The children in one…
Pilier de la grande école jazz cubaine, le contrebassiste installé à Paris a décidé de transformer en art son retour accidentel au pays natal en temps de pandémie. Pendant que Cuba se refermait entièrement sur elle-même pour absorber le dérèglement…
Ah-Ming and Yueyue are two out-of-work film school grads living in Beijing who decide to turn the camera on each other and make a film about their lives. On the surface, FEMALE DIRECTORS is the ultimate documentary for the age of oversharing. Two young women love the camera and record the minutiae…
For millennia, women have cared for the deceased: as death-bed vigils, as undertakers, as guardians of funeral rituals. They were present at births, and so, logically they were present at deaths too. Then everything changed. Since we no longer die at home, men took over. Undertaker became a “profession”,…
A woman is murdered in her own home every three days in Italy. And it’s not just an Italian problem. Violence against women is on the rise all around the world. “Femicide” is the intentional killing of a woman or girl by a man because they are female. Often the victim has just ended…
The feminine flourishes in the earth as a shared root. Sisterhood is that invisible thread that unites, sustains and lifts them up. It is to look at another and recognize oneself, it is the story of 6 women, managing to find themselves. Lina walks barefoot through the damp moss, where mushrooms grow…
Feminine Archetypes features interviews with female scholars who explore the images and inherited patterns of women in the African, Chinese, and Iranian diasporas, the Ngarabal women of Australia, and Anglo women in the United States. While exploring these universal female themes, this documentary journeys…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Feriel Ben Mahmoud France | 2014 | 52 minutes | Color | Arabic, French | Subtitled -- The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic…
*This film may be purchased by individuals for personal home viewing with family and friends only. It is strictly prohibited to screen, loan or broadcast for any group for either educational or commercial purposes. A film by Jennifer Lee 2013 | 64 minutes | Color -- Structured as a personal journey…
**EDUCATORS: please email orders@wmm.com for instructions for student access. A film by Myriam Fougère Canada | 2017 | 60 minutes | Color -- FEMINISTA is a lively and inspiring feminist road movie that explores the largely unrecognized yet hugely vibrant pan European feminist movement. Filmmaker…
Myriam Fougère Canada, 2017, Portuguese, French, Italian, English, Spanish / English subtitles Feminista is a feminist road movie, a journey to the heart of global feminism. In 2015, Myriam Fougere joined a group of young activists who had formed a caravan to travel across twenty European…
Myriam Fougère Canada, 2017, Portuguese, Francese, Italiano, Inglese, Spagnolo / Sottotitoli in italiano Nel 2015 Myriam Fougère si è unita ad un gruppo di giovani attiviste che hanno formato una carovana e hanno attraversato venti nazione europee, dalla Turchia al Portogallo,…
