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Enjoy
movies, films, videos and DVDs by and about women all over the world that
will
entertain, inform and fascinate you. Add your favorites to the list!
Osama is the story of a twelve year old Afghan girl who disguised herself as a boy and tried to keep the Taliban from discovering her identity. The film, which is based on a true story, was the first movie made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, and won the Golden Globe’s Best Foreign Film award. MORE |
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Maria
Full of Grace is the story of a pregnant 17-year-old
Colombian so desperate to transcend her dead-end future in a rural
village that for a wad of cash she risks her life to smuggle heroin
into the United States. In 2004, The New York Times called it “arguably
the year’s finest film.” |
Full Length Feature Films |
Un Dia de Suerte. Argentinean
Sandra Gugliotta won an Award at the Berlin International Film
Festival for this movie, which was shot in Buenos Aires during
the riots of 2000. 25-year old Elsa barely makes a living via
odd jobs and petty crimes. Her desire for a better life draws
her to Rome and Sicily, the reverse journey that her anarchist
grandfather took when he escaped Italian poverty. |
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Amelie.
Impish Amelie lives alone and works in a café. When she finds
a trove of toys that have been hidden for 40 years, she’s
inspired to repatriate them, an impulse of generosity that sparks
other benevolent acts. This movie is a celebration of life. |
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Outremer
(Overseas) is the first film directed
by actress Brigitte Rouan, and tells the stories
of three Algerian sisters during the war with France that resulted
in independence. Rich with political and psychological content,
the film is in French with English subtitles. |
Women
on the Frontlines, a feature-length PBS documentary
narrated by Academy Award winning actress Jessica Lange,
celebrates the unheralded work of courageous women world-
wide who are working to build peace and resolve crisis in Afghanistan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Argentina and the United States. VHS and DVD copies are available
to donors who contribute $40+ to Peace X Peace. |
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Frida, directed by Julie Taymor and starring |
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Rabbit-Proof
Fence. Three girls were
torn from their families during Australia’s
aboriginal integration program, and placed
in an abusive orphanage. The girls re-solved to make the 1500 mile
trek home, and found themselves followed by a man who hoped to return
them to the authorities. MORE |
Le Video, San Francisco,
California USA. Founded and owned by a French woman, this rental
store offers 87,000 videos and 12,000 DVDs, including many rare
foreign films. |
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Whale
Rider: In New Zealand, the heir
to Maori leadership dies at birth, survived only by his twin sister,
Pai. At 12, she trains herself in her people’s customs, challenges
her family and embraces a thousand years of tradition to fulfill
her destiny. |
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Persepolis was co-directed by Marjane Satrapi. This animated
film that is based on her engaging novels, all drawn
like comic books. Growing up during the Revolution,
she was a mullah’s worst nightmare: a girl with her
own ideas. The movie won the Special Jury
Prize at Cannes in May 2007; Vogue reports, “The
audience didn’t want to stop applauding.” |
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Dangerous
Beauty is the sensuous true story of a woman who used
looks, wit and seduction to defy the conventions of 16th century
Venice. |
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Great Britain's International Collection includes
classics from the 1930's and 1940's: Tolstoy's
Anna Karenina (“in a world of power and privilege,
one woman dared to obey her heart”), Fire
over England (Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Catherine
the Great (Empress of all the Russias). |
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Documentaries |
Standing
on My Sister's Shoulders. Women from Mississippi, descendants
of slaves, seek civil rights in Washington DC in the 1950's and
1960's. |
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Born Into Brothels. Documentary of Calcutta's Sonagachi (red light) district where a group of feisty, courageous, wickedly funny children of prostitutes embark on a transformational journey with photographer Zana Briski who teaches them to photograph their own lives. The film is an example of one individual's ability to make a difference. Proceeds from the companion photo exhibit and book support these unforgettable children’s education. MORE |
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Maryann DeLeo produced and
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Señorita Extraviada,
Missing Young Woman. Victims’ families tell
the haunting stories of more than 200 young women of Juarez, Mexico
who were raped, kidnapped and murdered. A Century of Color: Maya Weaving & Textiles. Margot Blum Schevill and Kathleen Mossman Vitale
wrote this 53-minute bilingual documentary which
documents 100 years of continuity and change. It
includes stunning footage of contemporary life,
computer graphics, music, and photographs of
clothing from the Phoebe Hearst Museum of
Anthropology’s textile collections. |
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Complaints
of a Dutiful Daughter chronicles the stages of a mother's
Alzheimer's Disease and a daughter's response. A life-affirming
exploration of family relations, aging and change, the meaning of
memory, and love. Mayan Weaving. Endangered Threads Documentaries has just released A Century of Color: Maya Weaving & Textiles,” a 53-minute documentary that surveys the subject over the past 100 years in Guatemala. Textile scholar Margot Schevill and award-winning journalist Kathleen Vitale co-wrote the script.
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Warrior Marks is a poetic, political film about female genital mutilation presented by Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker. FGM affects one hundred million of the world's women. This film unlocks some of the cultural and political complexities surrounding this issue. MORE |
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Mother
Teresa. This powerful, inspiring film is considered
the definitive portrait of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Shot
over 5 years in 10 countries, the film follows her into the world’s
most troubled spots as she transcends political, religious and social
barriers with her works of love. |
Blossoms
of Fire, produced by Maureen Gosling, documents the legendary
women of Juchitan in Oaxaca, Mexico, “guardians of men, distributors
of food.” Here they are in their opinionated glory, chiding
the foreign press for calling them a promiscuous matriarchy while
they sell in the markets wearing clothing embroidered with fiery flowers
and celebrate their festivals. MORE |
Living with the Gods,
with Susanne Wenger and Shangodare. Now 86,
Austrian artist Susanne Wenger was entrusted by the Yoruba gods
to restore the ruined shrines of the Sacred Groves in Oshogbo
Nigeria. |
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Fantastic
Figures: Oaxan Ceramic Folk Art. Josephina Aguilar
and her family demonstrate the creation of their charming clay figures,
which are collected worldwide. |
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Twenty million
quilters in the United States create quilts that express their inner
lives and individual voices. Here, quilters talk about their creative
lives and their daily lives: mothers, children and careers. Woman's
Work: Making Quilts--Creating Art. MORE |