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Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend.
62) Golda
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
עברית
Description
Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed by Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after another, she spoke freely, pleading her case for her term as Prime Minister: five turbulent years that secured her place in history, albeit at a high personal cost.
63) Dear Sister
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Author, activist, and strategist Rinku Sen guides you in how to select great mentoring relationships, no matter which side you fall on. * Learn practical tools they need to assess whom they should work with * Get tips for how to get started * Learn how to grow and develop a mentorship over time * Hear about the skills and responsibilities of satisfying mentors and rewarding mentees This talk is facilitated by Berrett-Koehler Publisher and President...
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The most beloved brands and thriving businesses of our time will be led by women who bring 100% of themselves to work, including—and especially—their souls. In this session, globally recognized transformation expert Tara-Nicholle Nelson reveals a spiritual self-care practice to cultivate the self-expression and strategic truth-telling superpowers of a truly transformational leader. You’ll learn: * The beginner’s guide to the human soul * Why...
65) The Man Card
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Ranging from Richard Nixon’s tough-talking, law-and-order campaign in 1968 to Donald Trump’s hyper-macho revival of the same fear-based appeals in 2020, "THE MAN CARD" shows how conservatives have lured white working-class men away from the Democratic Party by branding the Republican Party as the party of real men, attacking Democratic leaders as soft, and promising to restore declining white male power and authority in the face of demographic...
Publisher
Odd Squad Productions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Linda Stewart is a police officer who has an amazing career on the mean streets of Vancouver. Her passion for both policing and the people she connects with earns her the nickname 'Madonna'. Come on a virtual ridealong: watch in awe as she softly talks a jumper off a bridge and offers stern warnings or motherly advice to drug users and criminals alike. This remarkably candid film looks at stellar career of an extraordinary personality who serves...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preteens and adolescents discuss the adverse effects of the sexual stereotypes with which they are constantly bombarded. They talk about how hard it is to develop their own personality and make friends when they don’t conform to media and advertising images. Produced in collaboration with the Montreal Women’s Y as a follow-up to Sexy Inc.: Our Children Under Influence, also directed by award-winning filmmaker Sophie Bissonnette, this film for...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Igbo
Description
Witness an uncompromising portrait of a young man's initiation into a men's secret society. It begins with the elder griot and praise singer talking about the origins of the "Owu" society. Two keepers of tradition, the griot and the town's oldest woman and female griot, Ezenwanyi (Leader of Women), narrate this film continuing their role as commentators in the life of the village. Owu explores the pluralistic lives of Africans as they come up against...
69) 35 Photos
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A woman born in 1949, the year the German Democratic Republic was founded, talks about her life based on 35 images in her family album that each represent one year. This short was to premiere on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of East Germany. Officials rejected the short, however, as an ostensibly negative portrait of GDR family life presented by an atypical woman. It was released under a different title a year later.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness excavates the hidden sexualities of Black female entertainers who reigned over the nascent blues recording industry of the 1920s. Unlike the male-dominated jazz scene, early blues provided a space for women to take the lead and model an autonomy that was remarkable for women of any color or sexual orientation. The fact that some of these women, still famous 90 years later, successfully conducted same-sex relations with friends...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of feminism. Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat boys, liberated Cosmo girls and Radical Cheerleaders, all in her quest to find out whether feminism...
Publisher
Capella Film
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
What do women desire? Some will answer that happiness comes from marriage and children. Others - money and a successful career. Most will talk about love. And someone will joke about a magic remote control that will give you the opportunity to change your lover for the better with one click. Ten different women who have one thing in common: the desire to truly live.
73) All of Me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Through the personal stories of three severely obese women who choose weight-loss surgery, All of Me shines a fresh light on the causes, challenges, and intense psychological struggles surrounding obesity in our society, as well as our attitudes and prejudices towards the obese. The girls, as they call themselves, have been friends for years, having met through the Size Acceptance Movement. They've unsuccessfully tried every diet and pill in an...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This film follows four people working a job few would desire: tending to the needs of the dying. They are nurses, but they are also therapists, entertainers, disciplinarians, and family to these patients. Filmed at one of the only full-time residential hospices in the country, this film creates an authentic portrait of a day-in-the-life of the hospice. Off-the-cuff interviews with staff are at the heart of the film as they talk about burnout, budget...
75) Embrace
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Taryn Brumfitt is a highly recognized body image activist whose powerful message has reached over 100 million people worldwide. After receiving more than 7000 emails and messages from people all over the world, Taryn realized that there was a global body-hating epidemic and felt compelled to find answers. EMBRACE is told from the point of view of Taryn as she traverses the globe talking to experts, women in the street and well-known personalities...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When she was a teenager, Anna Sten was already a star in Soviet silent movies. When talking pictures started, she moved to Germany and had an impressive career there as well. Samuel Goldwyn, a prestigious independent Hollywood producer, brought her to Hollywood in the hopes that he had discovered the next Garbo or Dietrich. But the projects he picked for her were all big flops. At the age of 27, she was a has-been and her career never recovered.
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Swanee Hunt is the Former US Ambassador to Austria, a Harvard Lecturer, a Global Activist, and a Philanthropist. In her own words: "I have struggles and successes in common with hosts of people I’ll never meet. I transform disappointments into energy rather than encountering them again and again as obstacles along the way. Maybe you’ll recognize yourself… and avoid some mistakes I’ve made. Better yet, I hope you’ll savor more fully your...
Publisher
Frameline
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
The Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latina transwomen who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through sex work. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow.. The three friends share the place known as The Salt Mines with a varied community of homeless people....
79) Eight Ladies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The eight ladies in this film come from Alyawarr Country in the Sandover River region in central Australia, about 250km north of Alice Springs. The filmmakers joined them on a five-day journey into the bush to hunt echidna and gather bush foods such as the bush potato. As they hunt and gather, and as they sit around their campfire at night preparing the food, they talk about the old days and how life has changed. Filmed in observational style, this...
80) Smooth talk
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
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