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- DirectorDoris WishmanStarsLeslieDeborah HartenLisa CarmelleSex hygiene film about transsexuals in the late 60's/early 70's. As with all sex hygiene films it's one part serious documentary and one part sensationalism.
- DirectorMira NairIndia Cabaret (1985) is a documentary by Mira Nair exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay. There are no voice-overs by either the cabaret dancers nor the men who were interviewed who frequented the cabaret club. Nair explores the marginalized quite often in her films, male and female. This time it is the marginalized women in Bombay who have been cast out because of the 'nature' of their jobs. The women themselves are not ashamed of what they do for a living; what they prize more is the fact that they do not have to be at the mercy of the men in their lives [husbands, brothers, fathers or lovers] as their female peers. They earn their own living, 'decently' ; they are free to come and go as they please and do not have to follow the rules imposed by men or worse society. One of the dancers is offered the opportunity to end her stint at the club and 'clean up' her act; she's offered the 'love' by a man, who promises to take her away, but she refuses. She is content to having her independence and earning her keep. The film also portrays the parallelism of the men who go to see these 'dirty' women dance for their pleasure; the men who pretend o be happily married and decent upright citizens, and who, when interviewed have no qualms about telling the camera how worthless these type of women are. The film explores "the double standards of an essentially patriarchal society."
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardAnne-Marie MiévilleStarsJean-Luc GodardAnne-Marie MiévilleJean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.
- DirectorJennifer FoxDocumentary about the Bustros Family
- DirectorJean Khalil ChamounMai Masri
- DirectorHiam AbbassStarsHafsia HerziHiam AbbassYussuf Abu-WardaAs a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...
- DirectorHana MakhmalbafStarsBibigol AsefSima AsefAgheleh FarahmandDocumentary showing the backstage of production of Samira Makhmalbaf's film Panj É Asr(At Five in the Afternoon), in Kabul, after the fall of the Taliban regime. Everything was recorded with a small digital camera by Samira's 14-year-old sister Hana.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsAgheleh RezaieAbdolgani YousefraziMarzieh AmiriIn a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.
- DirectorHana MakhmalbafStarsAbbas AlijomeAbdolali HoseinaliNikbakht NoruzIn Afghanistan, a young girl wants to go to school and learn to read and write, but is met with hostility or indifference.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourWhat has happened to the woman's role in the Saudi society. The search of a woman (Haifaa Al-Mansour) for an answer.
- DirectorMelina MatsoukasStarsDaniel KaluuyaJodie Turner-SmithBokeem WoodbineA couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
- DirectorMelanie MartinezAlissa TorvinenStarsMelanie MartinezEmma HarveyMegan GageA brave-hearted girl and her charming best friend make a bewitching pair as they embark on a mission to take down the oppressive schooling system of K-12.
- DirectorBillie PiperStarsBillie PiperLeo BillKerry FoxAn anti rom-com about Mandy, a career-driven single mother, who falls in love with the charming, traditionalist Pete.
- DirectorSherry HormannStarsAlmila BagriacikRauand TalebMerve AksoyAynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
- DirectorDanielle LessovitzStarsFionn WhiteheadLeyna BloomMcCaul LombardiPaul must confront his white boy realness after arriving in New York and getting involved with explosively divisive groups: the queer ballroom scene and some straight debt collectors, while falling in love with a trans woman.
- DirectorMarcelo BarbosaAude Chevalier-BeaumelStarsIndianara SiqueiraWescla VasconcelosBiancka FernandesIndianara fights for the survival of transgender people in Brazil and braces up for one last battle.
- DirectorMiaomiao LiuHu WeijieStarsSiqi MaKewang LuoLing ZhangThe story takes place in a peaceful and peaceful Hui village. Gu Bo is a simple young man who lives there. Because he suffered from a strange disease since childhood, Gu Bo has a very inferiority complex. He firmly believes that no girl will take a fancy to himself like this, so he has no hope for life or feelings. His family was very worried about Gu Bai's thoughts and current situation, and arranged a blind date for him. Unexpectedly, it was a very beautiful girl named Ashiyan who was on the blind date with Gu Bai. Under the coercion and inducement of the two families, the two young people reluctantly prepared to get married. In fact, Asiyan also had her own secrets. She had a very loving ex boyfriend, but she didn't know that a terrible car accident took his life. This brought a huge spiritual blow to Asiyan. To this day, she has not been able to come out of the memory of her ex-boyfriend.
- DirectorCongcong TengStarsChen YaoJiuxiao LiXinming YangDiagnosed with ovarian cancer, a 29-year-old journalist who longs for true love ends up writing the biography for an entrepreneur's father, which leads her to embark on an existential journey.
- DirectorMichela OcchipintiStarsSidi Mohamed ChinghalyVerida Beitta Ahmed DeicheAichetou Abdallahi NajimA woman living in Mauritania is ordered to eat excessively so that she becomes more desirable and finds a husband.
- DirectorLulu WangStarsShuzhen ZhaoAwkwafinaX MayoA Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
- DirectorJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeStarsJocelyn DeBoerDawn LuebbeBeck BennettSuburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
- DirectorMinhal BaigStarsGeraldine ViswanathanJack KilmerGabriel LunaMuslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczDeragh CampbellStarsDeragh CampbellAaron DanbyElizabeth RuckerA young woman discovers letters in a Harvard archive that her great-grandmother wrote to a fellow Polish poet.
- DirectorTonia MishialiStarsStella FyrogeniAndreas VasileiouPopi AvraamTrapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
- DirectorLorna TuckerStarsReimert RavenholtJean WhitehorseA feature length documentary following one woman's fight for the reproductive rights of a nation.