Women & Science in Africa : A Silent Revolution
Dynamic and enterprising, African women scientists are the new face of a modern African continent that is actively engaged in the great upheavals of our societies.
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The Silence of Women
The documentary covers the subject of rape. In their testimonies, the victims describe all the traumas that have to be overcome in such cases, from the initial violence, to the difficulty of obtaining justice, to the very long time that is needed to process such a traumatic experience.
Abyss of Love
Violence against women is the topic of the day. Often reporting the crime and sentences are not enough to avoid tragedy. And so one asks, what should be done in such situations? Who can intervene? How?
A Woman without a Name
Female inmates in a Tehran prison give a rare voice to their shocking crimes and punishments
Code - Debugging the Gender Gap
At a time when jobs in the tech sector are outpacing growth in all other sectors, where are all the women? Some of the most important pioneer coders were women but today, only 15% of software engineers in Silicon Valley are. This lack of diversity can have serious consequences – as was the case with airbags, designed by and modelled on men and often fatal to women, whose smaller size wasn’t taken into account.
Girls of Paadhai
In Southern India, many women must endure early marriage. The refuge charity Paadhai shelters the children and adolescents who are trying to escape this fate. Twenty-year-old Amulpriya’s mother was married at an early age to a man who turned out to be unable to provide for her or her family. Now after decades of poverty, she wants her daughter to follow the same path – early marriage.
Live your life
Eugénie, Melissa, Alicia, Laura, Sarah or Caroline live in France, Canada and the United States....They were 15, 17 or 20 years old, when they discovered that they were pregnant.They share a common fate: they had an abortion and made the choice to continue to live their lives despite what people said when they decided to terminate their pregnancy. Despite the difficulty of getting an appointment or finding a clinic. Despite the silence and the taboo.
Exploitation Hotel: The Kellys
More than 200.000 women work as cleaning ladies in Spain, but they are as fundamental as they are invisible in the hospitality industry. In October 2016, the Kellys (las que limpian in Spanish) decided to get organized to fight for their rights. They have been victims of outsourcing and many of them have lost their jobs in the hotels, without any rights and vulnerable to being fired when they get medical leaves.
Marilyn Monroe : Fascination
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around the world. It’s been said that: “Monroe played the best game with the worst hand.” Her journey to stardom stemmed from a childhood of poverty, neglect, and loneliness. 'Fascination' tells the remarkable story of Marilyn’s life. From birth to her premature death she endured criticism, insecurities, drug dependence and numerous miscarriages.
Evita, Another Look
The film “Evita, another look” has the quality to show one of the most important Argentine characters of the twentieth century with international significance from the perspective of one of her personal photographers. The purpose of the film is to show a woman who managed to face a male-chauvinist society and make her way against all odds to finally make her wishes come true.
A Chef and Her Lucky Star
When chef Isabelle Arpin joins the restaurant Alexandre in Brussels, she knows that only a Michelin star can save it. During the months before and after the Michelin star announcement, we follow the rise of this woman chef, in the very masculine world of Gastronomy.
The Heiresses
Their names are Ludivine, Juliette and Alexandrine. They are respected oenologist and winemakers, working in Burgundy, France and beyond. They present a new face of Burgundy more feminine and modern. They are undeniable pieces of the wine industry in Burgundy and seem to be on an equal footing with men. However, to get where they are today, they had show more determination, to show more envy than their male counterparts.
A Revolution in Four Seasons
This seminal film tells the story of two women with opposing political views fighting for their different versions of a democratic future for Tunisia, the country that sparked the Arab Spring.Over the course of Tunisia’s critical post-revolution years, we follow journalist Emna Ben Jemaa, who envisions a country governed by free speech and without the corruption of the former regime. In contrast, Jawhara Ettis of the Islamist party Ennahda works towards a Tunisia guided by Islamic principles.
Women keeping the world turning part 1
Ten women in ten different countries and cultures are about to begin a new chapter of their lives. They were born in the ‘70s when a dynamic movement for equality gave women equal rights, access to education and jobs. Today, they are in their forties, have a greater choice, better opportunities. Or do they? They are French, Japanese, Tunisian, Chinese, Russian or American. Their individual life stories are an indicator of the progress achieved in just one generation.
Teach me to Fly
Céline dreams of becoming a helicopter pilot. Attend the course and work as a flight attendant. Difficult but fundamental job, because flight attendants are the “eyes on the ground” of the pilots. The documentary ventures with her into a little known and not very feminine world. An exciting journey also made up of adventure and breathtaking images.
Women keeping the world turning part 2
Ten women in ten different countries and cultures are about to begin a new chapter of their lives. They were born in the ‘70s when a dynamic movement for equality gave women equal rights, access to education and jobs. Today, they are in their forties, have a greater choice, better opportunities. Or do they? They are French, Japanese, Tunisian, Chinese, Russian or American. Their individual life stories are an indicator of the progress achieved in just one generation.
Women at the top
Equal opportunities and the distribution of power – what is the reality in European boardrooms today? In in-depth interviews, we look at the careers of three top female managers from Germany, France and Spain.
The secret Revolution
In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, women are calling for change. A portrait of pioneers who want to reshape society: an editor-in-chief, a lawyer and a politician.
All I Need is a Ball
Paloma Pujol, tired of being the only freestyler woman in Spain, challenges herself to open the female category in the Spanish Football Freestyle Championship, but she needs at least four more girls to achieve her goal.
Roller Derby, Track Girls
Roller Derby’s world is boiling. The pre-selections to be part of the French Team, the national team which will participate to the world cup in Dallas, have started. Players from all over the country meet to take their chance. The forty girls selected will train for a year. Only twenty of them will eventually go at the end of the adventure and will compete for the world cup. One year of meeting people, creating great friendships, having rants, but above all one year of Derby.
Fishing Girl
This film tells the story of a young woman's passion for fishing. Mélanie Meissel. Following her on her adventures, this film paints a portrait of an extraordinary passionate girl! Mélanie has been fishing since she was 18 years old. It was her dad who sparked the intertest by teaching her the basics bait fishing. Now at 25 years old, this young woman is now living her passion 100%! Whenever she can, she sets off to lakes and rivers to indulge in her favorite sport.
Who I am - Season 1 - Episode 5
WHO I AM is a documentary series about Top Para Athletes worldwide.The First Iranian Woman winning Olympic or Paralympic Gold : Zahra Nemati
Who I am - Season 1 - Episode 4
WHO I AM is a documentary series about Top Para Athletes worldwide.The One Legged Ace in Australia : Ellie Cole
Who I am - Season 1 - Episode 2
WHO I AM is a documentary series about Top Para Athletes worldwide.Dominant Force in Wheelchair Racing : Tatyana McFadden
The Women and the Waves 2
The Women and the Waves 2' is a documentary surf film that celebrates women and their unique approach to surfing and life. The film looks at the state of surfing today from a feminine perspective and features positive role models that give back to people and the planet.
Boxing For Freedom
Sadaf Rahimi is the best female boxer in Afghanistan, but she must deal with her country’s traditions, fear and her own fate in order to be a free woman. Sadaf and her sister Shabnam joined the newly created women’s boxing team at the age of 13, when they returned to their country after being refugees in Iran.
Maria Callas, Born for Singing
The extraordinary artistic and human parable of opera singer MARIA CALLAS (New York, 1923 - Paris, 1977) traced through archives material unique images and memories, with interviews to relatives, artists, co-workers who have surrounded the artist in life.
Ursula K. Le Guin
This film explores the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Best known for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy works such as ’A Wizard of Earthsea’, ’The Left Hand of Darkness’, and ’The Dispossessed’, Le Guin defiantly held her ground on the margin of "respectable" literature until the sheer excellence of her work, at long last, forced the mainstream to embrace fantastic literature. Her fascinating story has never before been captured on film.
Around Them
A woman travels around the world to talk to 15 women from 15 different countries, and they tell her their opinion about topics of general interest such as love, religion, pride of belonging to their country and the situation of women in the place where they live.
Office 32
Six Middle-Aged women are learning to live with chronic pain and the associated symptoms of Fibromyalgia (FMS), but nothing compares to living with the shame that comes with this gender specific illness. In a general context of suspicion they live misdiagnosed, overmedicated and accused of exaggerating and faking their disease, but when they meet Dr. Palop and his team of humanist doctors things start to change.
Girls and Sex 2.0
Nudity and porn are everywhere. Even when we don’t look up for it, sexual images of women are shown in many ads or marketing campaign. Over many years feminism claimed the female sexual power, rejecting the image of women as sexual objects. Paradoxically, today’s younger generations seem to step backwards. Interviews with young women, sociologists and sexologists, try to describe what a standard woman is supposed to be today in the Western countries.
Bolingo. The Forest of Love
Bolingo. The Forest of Love tells the story of the journey madeby several women from the heart of Africa to North Morocco looking for the “european dream”.
Mata Hari: The Naked Spy
A hundred years ago, Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted German spy. Was she a dangerous spy, whose boldness and sexuality threatened the establishment, or a victim entangled in a climate of blame and desperation as WWI dragged on? How much of what we know about her is just myth? New documents reveal startling truths about her life.
Viking Women - Part 1 - Sigrun's Wrath and the Discovery of Iceland
Norway in the year 872. Sigrun could be a happy woman. As husfreya (housewife) she presides over an impressive Viking household on the coast, she has lots of children, her husband Ulf commands his own ship. Yet Sigrun’s marriage is an unhappy one. The family is burdened by a dark secret: her husband stole her away from her home settlement during a raid when she was a young girl, killing her father and brother.
Viking Women - Part 2 - Jovas Heritage and the Downfall of Haithabu
Denmark in the year 1064. Jova lives as a servant in the household of the merchant Ottar, who runs his business in the town of Haithabu. One day she finds out that her father was a renowned warrior who set out to the east shortly after her birth and didn’t come back. From then on Jova only has one thing on her mind: finding her father.
The Lady of Cao
The Lady of Cao is the first female ruler of pre-Columbian Peru to be discovered. She is believed to have governed in the Chicama valley, very close to the city of Trujillo, about 1700 years ago. The discovery of her tomb in 2006 was a major breakthrough in all previous theories about the Moche civilization. Through historical recreations, we will learn how the Moche society of the area was like and the importance of this mysterious tattooed mommy in her times.
Joan of Arc - Her Faith, Her Fight
2012 marked the 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl born in eastern France and who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII. Twenty-five years later, Pope Callixtus III, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was canonized in 1920.
Hélène Berr: A Young Woman in Occupied Paris
April 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old student and a brilliant violonist, begins keeping a journal. She tells with great accuracy about the noose tightening: having to wear the yellow star, the Vel d’Hiv roundup, the daily consequences of the anti-Jewish law passed by the Vichy Government. Arrested with her parents, detained in the camp of Drancy and deported to Auchwitz on March 27th 1944, Hélène died in Bergen-Belsen at the age of 24.
