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Emma decides to have an abortion and practice the Sympto-Thermal method of contraception. Mixing disturbing and strange visuals with an intimate and touching soundtrack, Emma invites us to rethink freedom through a body, benevolence through choice, and harmony through violence.
_Born in Evin_ follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
In Argentina, the victims of femicide amount to one woman every 23 hours. This documentary portrays the life of four social workers and psychologists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to assist, help and accompany different women who suffer domestic, sexual, and family violence.
In the Kuikuro village of Ipatse, in the Upper Xingu, an old woman feels that she will die soon. She wishes to sing and dance one last time during the Jamurikumalu, a ritual in which all the women of the surrounding villages participate. The rehearsals begin.
For a year, thirteen authors and actresses teamed up to stage _La nef des sorcières_, played at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montréal in 1976. In addition to excerpts from the six monologues on the situations and contradictions experienced by the women, the film presents the comments of the participants in this adventure.
In 1976, the CBC television show _Femme d'aujourd'hui_ interviewed the American writer and intellectual Susan Sontag (1933-2004), who was then living in Paris. This leading figure of the Western thought in the second half of the 20th century eloquently presented her thoughts and the path that led her to feminism.
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
A portrait of one of the leading theoreticians of gender studies, a discipline taught in American universities and dealing with sex and gender as a social and historical issue rather than a biological and natural one. Professor of comparative literature and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Butler is a pioneering intellectual, figurehead of the gay and lesbian movements...
The birth of a child is a basic expression of life. It constitutes the renewed awareness of the essence of men and women, in the respectful, dignified context of founding a family. While expecting their first child, Sylvie Van Brabant and Serge Giguère looked for a welcoming place to give birth. The place and the choice of the people they wished to be present motivated them to question the cond...
Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Le parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
Consisting of a series of interviews conducted in the United States, Paris and Barcelona, and archival documents on the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances, _Mutantes_ sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France.
In 1971, the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) participated in the May Day parade and denounced sexual discrimination. The images recorded during the demonstration punctuate excerpts from a public meeting where the issues raised by the movement are discussed. Normative heterosexuality being the reflection of bourgeois society, conscious homosexuality represents a revolutionary fo...
Histoire des luttes féministes au Québec
The film focuses on a lecture given by historian Michèle Stanton-Jean who traces the main women's movements that have marked the history of Quebec women. As in her essay Québécoises du 20e siècle, it is from an essentially feminist perspective that she analyzes the major stages of the women's liberation movement in Quebec.
This video focuses on the 2nd International Meeting of Women's Health Centers held in Rome in 1977. Challenging the traditional medical power and its macho conception of medicine, women's health centers report on their research and implementation of alternative practices.
A documentary about women at home and at work. Several women (and a few men) explain the greatness and misery of unpaid domestic tasks. This film, which does not offer any solutions, captures a certain picture of the situation in Quebec in the 1970s, making a clear observation: women, even if they work outside home, remain trapped in their traditional role as housewives. It is the story of gene...
Through fictional reenactments and testimonies, this video demonstrates how women experience rape and all forms of aggression in the street, at home and in the workplace. It explains how fear, humiliation and frustration become part of women's daily lives, and how all this violence against women in so many ways contributes to their overall oppression.
Rokhaya, a young filmmaker, returns to her home in Dakar in order to make a film about a local historical figure. Over the course of her research, consisting of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team, and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta, a heroine of the Senegalese resistance who is considered a high priestess.
Faced with persistent violence against women and high levels of sexual assault and domestic violence, feminists in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, organize a women's march, facing threats from the state, the media and the country's radical religious right. Director Anam Abbas follows the march's organizers as they negotiate amidst surveillance, paranoia and insecurity, hoping to spark a revoluti...
Emma decides to have an abortion and practice the Sympto-Thermal method of contraception. Mixing disturbing and strange visuals with an intimate and touching soundtrack, Emma invites us to rethink freedom through a body, benevolence through choice, and harmony through violence.
_Born in Evin_ follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
In Argentina, the victims of femicide amount to one woman every 23 hours. This documentary portrays the life of four social workers and psychologists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to assist, help and accompany different women who suffer domestic, sexual, and family violence.
In the Kuikuro village of Ipatse, in the Upper Xingu, an old woman feels that she will die soon. She wishes to sing and dance one last time during the Jamurikumalu, a ritual in which all the women of the surrounding villages participate. The rehearsals begin.
For a year, thirteen authors and actresses teamed up to stage _La nef des sorcières_, played at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montréal in 1976. In addition to excerpts from the six monologues on the situations and contradictions experienced by the women, the film presents the comments of the participants in this adventure.
In 1976, the CBC television show _Femme d'aujourd'hui_ interviewed the American writer and intellectual Susan Sontag (1933-2004), who was then living in Paris. This leading figure of the Western thought in the second half of the 20th century eloquently presented her thoughts and the path that led her to feminism.
Judith Butler, Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
A portrait of one of the leading theoreticians of gender studies, a discipline taught in American universities and dealing with sex and gender as a social and historical issue rather than a biological and natural one. Professor of comparative literature and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, Judith Butler is a pioneering intellectual, figurehead of the gay and lesbian movements...
The birth of a child is a basic expression of life. It constitutes the renewed awareness of the essence of men and women, in the respectful, dignified context of founding a family. While expecting their first child, Sylvie Van Brabant and Serge Giguère looked for a welcoming place to give birth. The place and the choice of the people they wished to be present motivated them to question the cond...
Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Le parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
Consisting of a series of interviews conducted in the United States, Paris and Barcelona, and archival documents on the political action of sex workers, queer activists and post-pornographic performances, _Mutantes_ sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France.
In 1971, the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) participated in the May Day parade and denounced sexual discrimination. The images recorded during the demonstration punctuate excerpts from a public meeting where the issues raised by the movement are discussed. Normative heterosexuality being the reflection of bourgeois society, conscious homosexuality represents a revolutionary fo...
Histoire des luttes féministes au Québec
The film focuses on a lecture given by historian Michèle Stanton-Jean who traces the main women's movements that have marked the history of Quebec women. As in her essay Québécoises du 20e siècle, it is from an essentially feminist perspective that she analyzes the major stages of the women's liberation movement in Quebec.
This video focuses on the 2nd International Meeting of Women's Health Centers held in Rome in 1977. Challenging the traditional medical power and its macho conception of medicine, women's health centers report on their research and implementation of alternative practices.
A documentary about women at home and at work. Several women (and a few men) explain the greatness and misery of unpaid domestic tasks. This film, which does not offer any solutions, captures a certain picture of the situation in Quebec in the 1970s, making a clear observation: women, even if they work outside home, remain trapped in their traditional role as housewives. It is the story of gene...
Through fictional reenactments and testimonies, this video demonstrates how women experience rape and all forms of aggression in the street, at home and in the workplace. It explains how fear, humiliation and frustration become part of women's daily lives, and how all this violence against women in so many ways contributes to their overall oppression.
Rokhaya, a young filmmaker, returns to her home in Dakar in order to make a film about a local historical figure. Over the course of her research, consisting of interviews with local personalities, discussions with her team, and fictional scenes shot on location, we discover the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta, a heroine of the Senegalese resistance who is considered a high priestess.
Faced with persistent violence against women and high levels of sexual assault and domestic violence, feminists in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, organize a women's march, facing threats from the state, the media and the country's radical religious right. Director Anam Abbas follows the march's organizers as they negotiate amidst surveillance, paranoia and insecurity, hoping to spark a revoluti...