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Feminist Perspectives
Women directors confronting power, bodies, silence, and resistance
A curated selection of films by women directors that examine bodily autonomy, patriarchal structures, workplace abuse, gendered violence, social control, and feminist resistance.
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Curator's Note
A feminist perspective is not only about placing women at the center of a story. It asks who defines bodies, desire, labor, family, and public voice. These films make gendered control, violence, silence, and resistance visible across different cultures, periods, and cinematic forms.
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A sharp feminist revenge film that confronts sexual violence, bystander complicity, and the social machinery of forgetting.
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
A rigorous feminist drama where women debate faith, violence, silence, and the possibility of leaving an oppressive community.
A restrained and devastating film about bodily autonomy, institutional barriers, and the quiet burden placed on young women.
A body-horror feminist fable about aging, beauty pressure, and the commodification of female bodies.
A stark feminist film where reproductive autonomy becomes a matter of fear, secrecy, and life-altering risk.
An investigative feminist film about testimony, fear, industry silence, and the work required to make abuse visible.
A quiet workplace drama that exposes power, complicity, and gendered abuse through the routine texture of a single day.
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
A vivid story of five sisters whose coming-of-age becomes a direct confrontation with patriarchal family control.
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
A girl's wish for a bicycle becomes a precise feminist lens on everyday gender restriction and personal freedom.
An animated feminist memoir about girlhood, exile, political memory, and the pressure of social control.
A historical feminist drama about suffrage, public voice, sacrifice, and the struggle for political recognition.
A labor-rights feminist film about women factory workers pushing equal pay from workplace grievance into public change.
A workplace feminist drama about harassment, hostile labor culture, and the legal fight for recognition.
A legal feminist drama about challenging gender discrimination through strategy, precedent, and institutional language.
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
A feminist biographical film that links Gloria Steinem's life to broader histories of activism, movement-building, and public voice.
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern history. A nontraditional chronicle of a trailblazing life.
A story of race, abuse, sisterhood, and the gradual reclamation of a woman's voice.
Thelma & Louise
★8.4
A landmark feminist road movie where flight, retaliation, friendship, and freedom become inseparable.
A coming-of-age feminist film about a Black queer teenager negotiating family, identity, gender, and self-definition.
A feminist coming-of-age film about girlhood, class, group identity, and the performance of freedom.
A feminist romance built around looking, making art, desire, and the redistribution of the gaze.
A tactile feminist work about silence, marriage, desire, and the emergence of female agency.
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
A formally restrained courtroom film that interrogates motherhood, migration, and the gendered act of judgment.
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
A trial film where marriage, authorship, and suspicion become a gendered contest over interpretation.
A feminist genre film that turns revenge into a brutal reclamation of body, gaze, and agency.