Emancipation Movies

A short fil that follows a body subjected to institutional and diffuse forms of power: medicalization, psychiatric labeling, regimes of sexuality,...

This powerful one-woman drama from Sandra Seaton, set at Monticello in the final days before Thomas Jefferson’s death, gives a voice to Sally...

In Man Made, Sunny tries to find out what society's ideas regarding masculinity entails. Does testosteron define your masculinity? Can men be...

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by...

Theresa is trying to save her academic career: a field study at a soccer field, conducted among a recreational soccer team, is intended to explore...

In a dystopian city, where women are merely the possession of men, the 17-year-old Valentina escapes from Zéro’s grasp. Vulnerable and...

In New France before the British Conquest, Marie, an indigenous slave, serves the local surgeon. Her daily life of household chores is bleak and...

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every day to track down wildlife. The Maasai shepherds...

In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang empower themselves and take...

Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime and is quickly pigeonholed by outsiders...

The saga of fitness, which exploded in the 1980s and contributed, in its own way, to liberating women's bodies.

Are women softer or harder when they have power? To find out more, Hélène Risser followed two mayors, one an ecologist, the other a...

Milana, Sephora, and Mario are between seventeen and twenty-six years old. They grew up in modest, stigmatized rural Manouche families. Unlike their...

Two men are in dialogue with each other. It's implied dialogue, an attempt to give structure to what lies beneath the surface, yet always brewing and...

During a robbery with his brothers, Jules questions his aspirations and his future. He doesn't recognize himself in his brothers' lives. He concludes...

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers....