II Lines (2020)

Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Franz, a journalist, maintains relationships with four women. His three mistresses are introduced with television dreams of intense emotional violence (in the first dream, a mother shouts at her daughter, explaining that as a girl, she does not deserve a room of her own), and the fourth is his wife. He is desperate to have each to himself. Franz never offers a substantial sign of love, but is willing to say anything and make any promise for affection. His dependence on women for fulfilment is explained through arguments with his wife. He claims "I am my own sound. The women produce voices within me." An understandable and sometimes sympathetic antagonist is one of the films greatest strengths. The emotional damage he causes becomes believable.

In the fall of 2009, Lindsay Ellis, a 26-year old graduate student, went through the painful process of having an abortion. “The A-Word” follows Ellis as she opens up to her family and organizations from both sides of the debate, in search of healing. This is not a film about the protests and debates wrapped up in religious views and political agenda, but rather a personal journey about one woman’s struggle to shed the stigma attached to the A-word in hopes of starting a dialogue.

Acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh presents a compelling documentary that puts a human face on a national tragedy: the murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years. This is a journey into the dark heart of Native women's experience in Canada. From Vancouver's Skid Row to the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia, to Saskatoon, this film honours those who have passed and uncovers reasons for hope. Finding Dawn illustrates the deep historical, social and economic factors that contribute to the epidemic of violence against Native women in this country.

Comparado con las chicas, los estudios muestran que los chicos en EEUU son más propensos a ser diagnosticados con algún desorden de comportamiento, a consumir medicamentos estimulantes prescritos, a dejar el colegio, al alcoholismo, a cometer un crimen violento y/o a quitarse sus vidas. El nuevo film documental de Jennifer Siebel Newsom, The Mask You Live In ("La máscara en la que vives"), nos pregunta: como sociedad, ¿cómo estamos fallando a nuestros chicos?

This film is unusual for an Edison film, in that the film crew actually went to Britain to take footage of their suffragettes in action. In particular, they are there to get footage of the militant suffragettes--the ones who handcuffed themselves to buildings or broke windows because of their rage over having no right to vote.

En un teatro parisino, después de un duro día de audiciones para el papel del nuevo proyecto, Thomas se lamenta al teléfono por el poco empeño e interés que han mostrado los candidatos que se han presentado. Nadie tiene el nivel necesario para asumir el liderazgo del reparto y Thomas se está preparando para salir cuando aparece Vanda, un torbellino de energía desenfrenada y descarada. Vanda tiene todo lo que odia Thomas. Es vulgar, sin cerebro y no se detendrá ante nada hasta conseguir el papel. Thomas le da una oportunidad para mostrar su talento y Vanda le sorprende con una increíble metamorfosis. Provista de accesorios y disfraces, entiende a la perfección el personaje y ha memorizado cada línea del guion. Mientras la prueba se alarga, la intensidad entre ellos se incrementa y la atracción se convierte en una obsesión para el joven.

The bloodstained bed suggest a crime..No answers are given, after the torrrent of words at the beginning of the film, all the film offers are closed images and more questions..Is it even blood on the bed, what fracture is there between seeing and certainty? If there has been a crime, 'she' might still be victim..How can a crime of such complexity and continuity be 'solved'? The voice searches for clues, sifting through them, reading and re-reading until the words and letters loom up nightmarishly, no longer hung on the structure of language.

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One has Camille Paglia explaining her ways of thinking. One has Annie Sprinkle explaining her approach to performance art, which includes inviting audience members to view her cervix with a speculum. One interview investigates a professional woman's preoccupation with sadomasochism. The fourth documents the life adjustments of an F2M (female-to-male) sex change who looks like a dangerous biker, with slick black hair, a matching motorcycle jacket, and tattoos.

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

Tennis star and women’s rights activist Billie Jean King won a total of 12 Grand Slam titles, but the biggest match of her career took place in 1973 against former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, a self-proclaimed male chauvinist pig who declared that, even at the age of 55, he could beat any woman in the world.

Este es el perfil definitivo de Kathleen Hanna, líder de Bikini Kill y Le Tigre. Nos adentramos en su intimidad por vez primera: riot grrrl, familia, celebridad, Kurt Cobain, enfermedad de Lyme y su retorno como Julie Ruin. Una odisea ardua, sin concesiones.

When her sister is mugged and raped, Oili, a young female forensic dentist, meets a group of abused women who have taken matters to their own hands to make the living in fear and just letting it happen stop.

Ah Ying (Chen Ping) is a former gangster trying to lead an honest life, and occasionally using her fighting skills to help out the girls in the factory where she now works. She befriends young colleagues Chong Lee and Shao Yin-Yin, teaching them self defence because "girls can't be weak anymore". Trouble starts when her old gang finds out where she now works.

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man.

Joanna Eberhart, una joven fotógrafa casada y madre de dos hijos, se muda con su familia a Stepford. Allí descubrirá algo siniestro: todas las esposas son perfectas amas de casa y muestran una sumisión perruna hacia sus maridos. En el año 2004, Frank Oz dirigió un remake protagonizado por Nicole Kidman.

Un grupo de jóvenes viven bajo el mismo techo mientras se preguntan sobre sí mismos, sobre la sociedad, sobre sus creencias políticas y el mundo cambiante que gira a su alrededor. Al mismo tiempo, son conscientes de la importancia que tiene para ellos estar juntos, mantenerse unidos, constituir, en suma, una familia. Tras el éxito de "Fucking Amal" el sueco Moodysson vuelve a conquistar a crítica y público con una entrañable, divertida y encantadora comedia universal.

En 1933, Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert), una muchacha de 18 años, vive con sus padres en un minúsculo apartamento, en condiciones muy modestas. Sus padres sueñan para Violette una existencia diferente a la suya, una existencia que no le pueden dar, no obstante. La muchacha, ahogada por esta atmósfera, decide frecuentar estudiantes, no tardando demasiado en contraer la sífilis, lo cual, obviamente, supondrá un escándalo en el seno de la família. Violette, exasperada por la actitud floja de sus padres, tomará una decisión inesperada y sorprendente...

Tess, una inteligente secretaria de origen humilde, descubre que ha sido traicionada por su jefa. Es entonces cuando decide suplantarla durante una baja por enfermedad.

Frances Farmer debuta en el cine con sólo 23 años. Es hermosa e inteligente, y muchos le auguran una brillante carrera. Pero es, además, una persona poco convencional, algo que en el Hollywood de los años treinta no se considera precisamente una cualidad. Tras un fracaso sentimental, se da a la bebida y emprende el camino de la autodestrucción. Su madre, una mujer autoritaria, obtiene la custodia legal y la interna en un hospital psiquiátrico, donde es sometida a electrochoques y a una cura de insulina. Frances se encuentra al borde del abismo y no le queda más que una esperanza: recurrir a su mejor amigo, Harry York.