Movies: Women empowerment

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...

Laura lives in fear in a small town. Her ex partner, Hernán, was violent with her and now he's about to return to town. Laura must find a solution to never cross paths with him again....

“We are the stories we tell ourselves.” Seeing is Believing: Women Direct is a documentary series about directors, leaders… who happen to be women.Audiences will hear directly from women who are on the front lines of the field: from major award winn...

A bold anthology feature film made by an all-female creative team and cast. Based on the popular play of the same name the 80-minute movie follows 10 women scorned as they directly address their exes' new wives and lovers at an open mic night in Los ...

A charity event with renowned french artists brought together for the first time to offer the public new interpretations of the most emblematic titles linked to women's rights....

Three sisters are afforded the opportunity for rediscovery through their grief after losing their father....

Naranja is a woman that endures daily street harassment and catcalling; the constant sexualization and objectification of her body is reflected on the spots that these violent acts leaves over it. Naranja will have to react before the spots consume h...

What happens when the roles of teacher and student reverse? In a single moment, a second-grader’s innocent question exposes the fragile foundation of a rigid educator’s beliefs, forcing her to reconcile the difference between what’s taught and what’s...

Escaping the destruction of her home world, 19-year-old Ajwan embarks on an interplanetary journey to deal with the fall-out, while a nefarious organization slowly acquires power across the galaxy....

After a series of unexplainable night terrors Tess (Syd Stauffer) becomes obsessed with finding her estranged sister, Janie (Karisa Hope). Tess and her best friend Ashlyn (Kate Huges) enlist her sister's ex girlfriend Tick-Tick (Jenna McBreen) to hel...

In a small town of 1960's India, where cinema is forbidden for women, a 14-year-old embarks on a quest to watch her first film....

Sisters of Wrestling paints an intimate portrait of Azaelle, LuFisto and Loue O'Farrell, three ring warriors for whom wrestling is both a passionate love and an outlet from everyday life....

This film provides a lively introduction to the professional and personal lives of three female engineers-just a few of the growing number of women who were opting for "non-traditional" jobs in1983....

Chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes worked for nearly 50 years to harness the power of the sun, designing and building the world's first successful solar-heated modern residence and identifying a new chemical that could store solar heat like ...

As Nour moves to her new studio apartment, something unexpected happens which will make her re-visit traumatizing events....

Set in grey space, the film tells us the story of a young girl named Jahnvi sitting alone in a dark, single room carrying multiple thoughts about her beloved and her relationship with him. Her chain of thought breaks when her friend Aman enters the s...

Tired of watching local government ignore their communities’ interests, five diverse female activists decide to run for municipal office in Denver — one of the fastest gentrifying cities in the country....

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...

Unlicensed lawyer, Wan Ting, helps the domestically abused Wen Xiu with all her power. In a society where gender imbalance occurs, these two try to get the law on their side....

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends club waitress Ngoc who has just moved into their family′s house as a tenant. As their friendship grows, she finds out that Ngoc is an undisclosed sex worker. Meanwhile, the story i...