Emancipation Movies

The history of women through the Middle Ages as told to and by little boys and girls and an old man (Michael Lonsdale)

During a robbery with his brothers, Jules questions his aspirations and his future. He doesn't recognize himself in his brothers' lives. He concludes...

An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.

In New France before the British Conquest, Marie, an indigenous slave, serves the local surgeon. Her daily life of household chores is bleak and...

Lappen is an ambitious actress — and a washcloth in a world dominated by humans. Despite her acting training, she fails to make a breakthrough...

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by...

A lonely woman gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing Mr Devil, an insatiable glutton who turns out to be the boyfriend from Hell.

"River of Hope" tells the story of how a former slave Mary Barnes Cabell and her children helped found the first college for African Americans in...

Theresa is trying to save her academic career: a field study at a soccer field, conducted among a recreational soccer team, is intended to explore...

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards...

Milana, Sephora, and Mario are between seventeen and twenty-six years old. They grew up in modest, stigmatized rural Manouche families. Unlike their...

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every day to track down wildlife. The Maasai shepherds...

Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19, Xiuhua’s mother encouraged her to marry a...

Two men are in dialogue with each other. It's implied dialogue, an attempt to give structure to what lies beneath the surface, yet always brewing and...

Are women softer or harder when they have power? To find out more, Hélène Risser followed two mayors, one an ecologist, the other a...