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Chronicling Simone de Beauvoir's journey writing the groundbreaking feminist text "The Second Sex," this film links her pioneering ideas to modern women's struggles.

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A Shot at History

After leading her all-female team to develop a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Nita Patel returns home to India to fulfill a childhood promise she made to her father and heal the parts of herself she sacrificed along the way.

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The Unfixing

A mother faces overwhelming challenges of personal and global loss as her children inherit a world plagued by environmental crises. Her journey transforms grief into a new story, one that sees loss as an opportunity to forge a future of resilience and togetherness.

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MY SEXTORTION DIARY

Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati Franquesa documents the real-time persecution to maintain bodily autonomy and survive.

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SALLY!

Sally Gearhart was a charismatic radical lesbian activist, author, and academic who spearheaded the 1970s and 80s lesbian feminist movement, yet her remarkable contributions have been largely unrecognized. This documentary changes that.

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My Stolen Planet

Farah, an Iranian woman, was born in 1979 at the end of the Islamic Revolution, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Drawing on personal archives and 8mm archival recordings of strangers' lives, she contrasts moments of private joy with public defiance to show lives of women under the regimented oppression in Tehran.

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Is There Anybody Out There?

While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

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Bye Bye Tiberias

Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Emmy-nominated Hiam Abbass (SUCCESSION, RAMY, BLADE RUNNER) returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.

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My Name Is Andrea

A hybrid feature documentary about controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life.

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Loud Enough

After surviving a life-threatening sexual assault and being dismissed by the legal system, college student Madison Smith and her tight-knit Kansas family take on the local prosecutor to fight for justice and systemic change.

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Razing Liberty Square

Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridge, becomes real estate gold.

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Marianne

Set in the context of France's laïcité, (France's version of secularism), MARIANNE follows seven Muslim women challenging bans on wearing hijabs, headscarfs, face coverings, and abayas at school and in public. Their stories resonate globally, urging viewers to reevaluate liberty, feminism, and Western identity.

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Esther Newton Made Me Gay

A feature documentary about the pathbreaking cultural anthropologist, dog agility enthusiast, and iconic butch lesbian, Esther Newton.

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What About China?

Offering a journey into the wealth of China’s traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter, the film addresses the process of "harmonising" rural China, due to the country's Great Uprooting. It seeks to engage the viewer further by asking: What exactly is disappearing? And how?

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80 Years Later

Through multigenerational conversations, 80 Years Later engages with the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II.

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A Mother Apart

How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin radically re-imagines the essential art of mothering.

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Widow Champion

Thrown out of her home and off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow becomes a fighter for women’s land rights in a deeply patriarchal community. Her story explores the delicate balance between a deep-rooted culture and a changing world.

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Lesbian Custody

Giving access to a forgotten chapter of queer history and their own shared past, retired filmmaker Frances Reid and her stepdaughter Julie Stevens revisit Reid’s groundbreaking 1977 documentary IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF CHILDREN, about lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children.

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Memories of a Penitent Heart

Twenty-five years after her uncle Miguel dies of AIDS, a filmmaker tracks down his estranged lover – now a Franciscan monk – unearthing a buried history of faith, secrecy, and unresolved family grief.

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Landfall

An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL exposes the island’s deepening economic and environmental crises and its fraught colonial relationship with the United States. An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL exposes the island’s deepening economic and environmental crises and its fraught colonial relationship with the United States.

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Myth of the Black Woman

THE MYTH OF THE BLACK WOMAN explores the damaging images imposed on Black women, from the hypersexual Jezebel to the lovable Nurse to the “sassy” stereotype, revealing how these myths were engineered — and how Black women are actively reclaiming their identities and narratives today.

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