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Films on Women

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Historically in film, the roles of female characters are restricted and female protagonists were rare. This has changed over the years, and we now have a significant amount of films with female protagonists. Enjoy the selection of films on women from all around the world!

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Margaret Tait: Film Maker

Margaret Williams 1983 35 Min
Portrait of Margaret Tait, including extracts from many of her …
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Marseille

Angela Schanelec 2004 95 Min
Young fotographer Sophie exchanges her flat with a student from …
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The Invisible Frame

Cynthia Beatt 2009 60 Min
In 1988, the British director Cynthia Beatt, who is based …
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For Nothing

Stephan Geene 2014 95 Min
Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room in …
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Naomi's Journey

Frieder Schlaich 2017 92 Min
20-year-old Naomi lives a simple life with her younger siblings …
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Invoking Justice

Deepa Dhanraj 2011 85 Min
In Southern India, family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all male …
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Salma

Kim Longinotto 2013 89 Min
When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian …
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Maria in Nobody's Land

Marcela Zamora Chamorro 2010 86 Min
MARIA IN NOBODY'S LAND is an unprecedented and intimate look …
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Kiruna-Kigali

Goran Kapetanovic 2012 15 Min
In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is …
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I, Julia

Arvin Kananian 2020 15 Min
Julia is a 14 year old, living what seems to …
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HIGHWAY

Vanessa Gazy 2016 10 Min
On a stark mountain highway, troubled teen hitchhiker Hester Black's …
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The Room of Bones

Marcela Zamora Chamorro 2015 61 Min
THE ROOM OF BONES follows the passage of four mothers …
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Two Mothers

Anne Zohra Berrached 2013 79 Min
KATJA (43) and ISABELLA (37) decide to get a child. …
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In My Skin

Anna-Sophia Richard 2018 72 Min
Why do women stay in violent relationships even when they …
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The Lady Anatomist

Iris Fegerl 2019 55 Min
For a long time, the wax portrait of a woman …
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Monika

Christian Werner 2011 55 Min
Barely out of her teens, dependent on her family and …
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The Impossible Picture

Sandra Wollner 2016 70 Min
Vienna in the 1950’s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, …
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Woman Who Acts

Toshiyuki Teruya 2020 18 Min
Akira is an old man with little time left to …
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Of Girls and Horses

Monika Treut 2014 82 Min
Alex is 16, a misfit, a drop-out, a failure. She …
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Sister my Sister

Nancy Meckler 1994 89 Min
Thriller based on a real murder which took place in …
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Princess Cyd

Stephen Cone 2017 97 Min
PRINCESS CYD follows 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin (Jessie Pinnick) while …
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Oma & Bella

Alexa Karolinski 2012 75 Min
Oma & Bella is an intimate glimpse into the world …
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My father is coming

Monika Treut 1999 86 Min
Vicky works as a waitress and dreams of stardom, but …
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The Misandrists

Bruce LaBruce 2017 91 Min
The Misandrists refers to a secret cell of feminist terrorists …
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Virgin Machine

Monika Treut 1988 84 Min
Dorothee, a would-be writer and journalist, leaves Germany for the …
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