Film Categories: Work about Women

  • End Conversion Therapy

    A survivor of conversion therapy navigates the New York dating scene.

  • Presentation

    Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation. As a result, she considers self medicating with Xanax.

  • The Forms of Utility

    A short film essay analyzing a landscape shaped by religion, capital, and war. The film blurs the line between memory and history, only to reveal their cyclicity. The focus of this work is the mistreatment of the modernist architecture of Zilina, a small town in Slovakia, built by a growing Jewish minority in the 1920s and 30s and by new settlers from rural areas in the 50s and 70s. Their tastes and ideologies have been visibly projected onto the town.

  • America

    An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband doesn’t. He stays in Iran and watches his wife find success on television and falls into a state of depression.

  • Five Feminist Minutes

    A compilation of 16 short films on feminist issues made by independent Canadian women filmmakers. Contents: 1. Family secrets / by Lorna Boschman and Kim Blain 2. New shoes / by Ann Marie Fleming 3. Escapades of one particular Mr. Noodle / by Sook-Yin Lee 4. A letter from Violet / by Elaine Pain 5. Too tough / by Marie Annharte Baker 6. No choice / by Christene Browne 7. We’re talking vulva / by Shawna Dempsey and Tracey Traeger 8. Exposure / by Michelle Mohabeer 9. Prowling by night / by Gwendolyn 10. Shaggie / by Janis Cole 11.…

  • everyday star

    Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses.

  • Slumberparty 2018

    Slumberparty 2018 is a remake of a 1984 Super 8 film called Slumberparty made by the Positive Pornographers, a mostly queer collective of Toronto-based artists, activists and sex-workers. Commissioned by A-Space Gallery’s “Developing a Women’s Erotic Language on Film” workshop, Slumberparty was made as a direct intervention in Toronto’s feminist porn debates. They wrote, “we didn’t set out to make a work of art. We set out to make something that might turn us on. Join us for what one previewer called “Mary Poppins’ first lesbian orgy. Slumberparty screened twice in public in 1984 then disappeared until 2016, when the…

  • Soft Core

    Two bridesmaids form an unlikely connection over their bizarre sexual awakenings.

  • SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE

    Every encounter with an image, every interaction searches for its own form. SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE describes the encounter with female visual artists mostly of an older generation who were part of the Viennese art scene in the 1970s and were engaged in the women’s movement. In dialogue with the filmmaker and her camera they share early works and artistic practices. They remember how their self-determination evolved between artistic ambitions, economic constraints, adaptation and resistance to the prevailing patriarchal social structures. In their role as feminist pioneers the protagonists are a great influence on the contemporary art scene and…