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CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Debugging the Gender Gap: What would society gain from having more women and minorities in the tech industry, and how do we get there?
CACHADA – The Opportunity

CACHADA – The Opportunity A stunningly honest portrait of five incredible women who offer poignant and unthinkable memories in a documentary full of emotion and hope.
Kenya: The Struggle for Justice

Kenya: The Struggle for Justice After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a transgender sex worker, embarks on a journey of struggle and the pursuit of justice.
Array Array Bambi, a French Woman Bambi, a French Woman

Bambi, a French Woman From birth in Algiers, Marie-Pierre wanted to wear dresses, rejecting her given name, Jean-Pierre. At 17, discovering a drag show changed her life. Becoming Bambi, she became a cabaret legend in 50s and 60s Paris.
Array Array The Darien Dilemma The Darien Dilemma

The Darien Dilemma The Darien Dilemma delves into the fate of 1,000 Jews on the Danube in 1941, their survival contingent on a Mossad agent's decisions in Istanbul. Featuring interviews and reenactments, it uncovers the complexities of wartime rescue.
Cry of the Owl: The Himba in Namibia

Cry of the Owl: The Himba in Namibia Cry of the Owl captures the Himba of Namibia, showcasing their struggle against modern threats while clinging to age-old traditions through the lives of three generations of women, illustrating their cultural resilience and the stark contrasts with the modern world.
Array Array It’s Always Been Me It’s Always Been Me

It’s Always Been Me A touching and timely story about two young people who don't identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, and about the importance of an understanding family when making choices that will change the rest of your life
Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution and Islam In the '60s, hippies ignited a sexual revolution. In 2020, Seyran Ateş, a Turkish-German feminist imam, faces fatwas and bullets for sparking a similar change in Islam. Her global journey fights extremism, fostering peace and love within the faith. Join her revolution!
The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida

The Lost Key / La Llave Perdida The Lost Key, an award-winning film featured on Netflix, reveals lost teachings to turn a sexual relationship into a healthy, spiritual experience where two people become One.
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$avvy $avvy explores why it’s critical for women to understand and take control of their personal finances.
Array Array I’m Doing My Job I’m Doing My Job

I’m Doing My Job I’m Doing My Job follows 6 young, female South Asian & Black emergency medical physicians’ lives throughout the pandemic in NYC.
Born Free: Birth in America

Born Free: Birth in America If birth and pregnancy are a lens on how society values its women, why has it become a fight that American women are losing?
Array Array Marry Me However Marry Me However

Marry Me However The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities
Array Array On This Happy Note On This Happy Note

On This Happy Note Even on her deathbed, one of Israel's greatest playwrights talks about life, death and art.
Array Array Holding it In Holding it In

Holding it In The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children.
Array Array How to Say Silence How to Say Silence

How to Say Silence An old photograph launches a cross-generational journey, revealing how national values were enlisted in early-days Israel for the patriarchal control over women’s bodies and wombs. With her grandmothers’ painful stories, the director breaks the bond of silence.
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Levantine Levantine thinker and author Jacqueline Kahanoff was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities, as no one before her had done. Tracing her footsteps, draws not only a portrait of an impressive thinker, but also discovers the fate of Levantine identity in Israel
Array Array Allen v. Farrow Allen v. Farrow

Allen v. Farrow A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving his 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow.
RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights
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Body of Truth Artists Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat; Katharina Sieverding have been politicized by experiences with war, violence and suppression and integrated them into their work, using the most personal feature available: their own bodies
Array Array Lessons of Love Lessons of Love

Lessons of Love Free-spirited Jola, after escaping from a marital nightmare is letting loose with her friends and finds herself thrust into a new romance at a Latino dancing class
Array Array Third Person Third Person

Third Person Suzan isn’t either-or. Suzan isn’t both. Not quite male, not quite female. At 35 years old Suzan discovers this for the first time
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Surge Is it a moment or a movement? Surge follows three, diverse female candidates who each ran in uphill battles to flip their deep red districts to blue in the historic, barrier-breaking 2018 midterm elections
Private Revolutions – Young, Female, Egyptian Courage, Will, and Sensibility
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Dil Leyla At 26, Leyla is elected the youngest mayor in Turkey, in her hometown of Cizre, a Kurdish capital city near the Iraqi-Syrian border—a city she fled over 20 years ago, after her father was killed by the Turkish military
Array Array Una Primavera Una Primavera

Una Primavera A daughter follows her mother with a camera on a personal journey through domestic violence, leading them both between the contradictions of family.
Array Array With God’s Grace With God’s Grace

With God’s Grace A story of suffering and survival
Array Array Bias Bias

Bias If you’re human, you’re biased. Now what?
Array Array Beyond the Grace Note Beyond the Grace Note

Beyond the Grace Note 'Beyond The Grace Note' looks at the struggles and problems that many of the most famous female conductors in the world have had to face pursuing their chosen profession
Array Array The Case Against 8 The Case Against 8

The Case Against 8 A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore
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On the Record Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering examine the sexual assault allegations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons
Array Array The Oligarchs’ Wives The Oligarchs’ Wives

The Oligarchs’ Wives The dream of marrying rich can turn into a horrible nightmare, as some oligarchs’ wives have found out
Made In Auschwitz: The Untold Story of Block 10 Almost eighty years ago, gynecologist Carl Clauberg conducted medical experiments on Jewish women in Auschwitz. For the first time they tell their story to the world
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Misconception Forget everything you thought you knew about population.
Array Array School Of Seduction School Of Seduction

School Of Seduction Three Russian women in their 30s who all seek the same: security, a higher social status and eternal happiness.
Girl Rising 5th Anniversary Edition

Girl Rising 5th Anniversary Edition The updated film features new research on girl’s education, video updates on the girls, and videos from the Girl Rising movement featuring students, teachers, and community leaders taking action for girls’ education
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High Fantasy “Our national anthem is bullshit, our flag is bullshit, Rainbow Nation is bullshit. Bullshit”
Array Array Stories of Our Lives Stories of Our Lives

Stories of Our Lives A series of vignettes based on true stories collected for the Stories Of Our Lives project.
Array Array Love the One You Love Love the One You Love

Love the One You Love ‘Love The One You Love’s parallel stories question the ideals we hold too sacred: love, happiness, and the New South Africa, the pursuit of which makes truth impossible.
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Wall Filmmaker Moran Ifergan, takes us on a year-long journey into the women's section of prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as she remembers the religion she left in her late teens.
Array Array America to Me America to Me

America to Me Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series. Witness it through their eyes.
Array Array In My Room In My Room

In My Room An up-close and personal look at six teenagers inside their room, told entirely out of their self made videos posted on YouTube.
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RBG Hero. Icon. Dissenter. RBG explores the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image

Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image A documentary about body image and industry leaders challenging society's dangerous and unrealistic standards of beauty
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Array Array A Brave Heart A Brave Heart

A Brave Heart Following the inspiring journey of 26 year old, 58 pound Lizzie Velasquez from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.
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Half the Sky Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Sold Based on the global bestseller by Patricia McCormick, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India.
Array Array Trapped Trapped

Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
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#chicagoGirl From her childhood bedroom in suburban Chicago, Ala’a, a 19-year-old American girl coordinates the revolution in Syria
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Debugging the Gender Gap: What would society gain from having more women and minorities in the tech industry, and how do we get there?
Before the Last Curtain Falls

Before the Last Curtain Falls The exceptional and heart-warming stories of a group of trans cabaret artists and drag queens in their sixties and seventies, who summon the courage to take the stage one last time.
Array Array The Hunting Ground The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground A startling exposé of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families.
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Girl Rising Educating girls can break cycles of poverty in just one generation, yet millions of girls aren’t in school
Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell The dramatic success story of the women's peace movement of Liberia
Array Array The World Before Her The World Before Her

The World Before Her A provocative portrait of Indian women and their current cultural conflicts.
Array Array Crime After Crime Crime After Crime

Crime After Crime Horribly abused, wrongfully imprisoned... one signature away from freedom.
Array Array Connected Connected

Connected An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. This is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
Array Array Women’s Lust Women’s Lust

Women’s Lust Affectionate, provocative and funny, Women's Lust questions the taboos surrounding the sexuality of older women.
Array Array The Women Pioneers The Women Pioneers

The Women Pioneers The Women/Pioneers uncovers the passion, struggle and pain of the female pioneers who came to Palestine a hundred years ago with the dreams of creating a new world and a new woman
Array Array Karla’s Arrival Karla’s Arrival

Karla’s Arrival Teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s first birthday.
Array Array The Optimists The Optimists

The Optimists Many of us fear age. Youth is our modern world's ideal. These ballplaying ladies might change our ideas, and possibly make us realize that those who do get to experience old age are actually the lucky ones.
Kalash, The Last Infidels of Pakistan

Kalash, The Last Infidels of Pakistan A young woman must choose between converting to Islam, join the modern world or enable her tradition to continue. With the choice of her generation the eternal return of the seasons sanctified by Kalash could fin an end.
In Bed with the Arab Spring

In Bed with the Arab Spring Women played key roles in the revolutions that swept the Middle East. In the aftermath of these political upheavals, they find themselves on the front line of the clash between traditionalism and secularism in modern Islam.
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Blush of Fruit Tong Phuoc Phuc, has been praised as an anti-abortionist and a saviour to ‘fallen’ Vietnamese women and their unwanted children. With rumours of child abuse and profiteering, does this home offer the safe-haven which these women expect?
Array Array The Good Son The Good Son

The Good Son The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream.
Array Array I Am a Woman Now I Am a Woman Now

I Am a Woman Now The story of the first generation of transsexuals, as told by five women who underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1950s Casablanca.
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Watermarks The women from the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna reunite on their 'old turf' 65 years after they fled Nazi Austria.
Array Array Lone Twin Lone Twin

Lone Twin At the age of 20, director Anna Van der Wee lost her twin brother. By investigating the bond between twins, she hopes to understand what it means to be a twin, and what one looses when one of them dies.
Array Array Women of Hammas Women of Hammas

Women of Hammas A rare insight into the inner workings of Hammas, from the perspective of some of the organisations most powerful female members.
Array Array Gypsy Davy Gypsy Davy

Gypsy Davy When a blond Californian with Alabama roots becomes a Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, fathering five children to five different women, what happens along the way and behind the scenes?
Array Array Art/Violence Art/Violence

Art/Violence Inspired by characters from "Alice in Wonderland," "Waiting for Godot" and "Antigone," young Palestinian actresses deal with the military occupation and gender oppression, violence and grief, on stage and in life.
Array Array Seeds of Summer Seeds of Summer

Seeds of Summer Seven years after completing an IDF course for female combat soldiers, the director returns to the place where, for the first time, she fell in love with a woman – her commanding officer.
Array Array My Sweet Canary My Sweet Canary

My Sweet Canary An exuberant musical and cinematic journey across Greece, and Turkey in search of Roza Eskenazi, an artist whose music shaped the soundtrack of the region for almost a century.
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Teacher Irena Facing her own struggles as a widow in a new country, Irena turns her energies to address the struggles of others: her 26 third grade students growing up in one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is Proud to Present

Jerusalem is Proud to Present Plans to hold the International World Pride celebration in Jerusalem in 2006 were disrupted by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, and conservative Muslims, united by their objection to LGBT events in the city they consider holy.
Family Matters (Mishpuche)

Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.
Array Array The Cemetery Club The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club For over two decades, a group of women and men have been meeting weekly at Israel’s National Cemetery to debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation.