Six women of different generations and backgrounds traverse a narrow steel beam at a great height in “Woman’s Work,” a subversive statement on the power of the male gaze over the idealized female image of beauty. Through movement and metaphor, the film analyzes how the body relates to socially accepted frameworks and imagines how these structures and systems can be challenged and overthrown by the collective power of radical transparency and honest embodied expression.
Six women of different generations and backgrounds traverse a narrow steel beam at a great height in “Woman’s Work,” a subversive statement on the power of the male gaze over the idealized female image of beauty. Through movement and metaphor, the film analyzes how the body relates to socially accepted frameworks and imagines how these structures and systems can be challenged and overthrown by the collective power of radical transparency and honest embodied expression.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she’s done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman’s singular journey.