Women in Film Spotlight

Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at…

Directed by Raven Jackson

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi.…

Directed by Mimi Chakarova

“The Apology” investigates an incident in the 1960s in which Alameda County and the City of Hayward…

Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek), Joe Peeler

When the Muscogee Nation government abruptly repeals its landmark Free Press Act to muzzle the tribe…

Directed by Tahmina Rafaella

In this deeply humanist drama a woman is accused of being an unfit mother by her influential husband. Banu…

Directed by Monique N. Matthews

America’s medical inequities have turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women…

Directed by Lagueria Davis

Love her or hate her, almost everyone has a Barbie story. For filmmaker Lagueria Davis, it all…

Directed by Markie Hancock

"Bloodlines of the Slave Trade" examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic…

Directed by Sandra Itäinen

“Coming Around” follows 28-year-old, second-generation, Palestinian-Egyptian Brooklynite Eman as she…

Directed by Tien-yu Fu

For the vast majority of people, getting a haircut is an essential task to which we rarely give a…

Directed by Lois Lipman

“First We Bombed New Mexico" follows the intimate journey of indomitable Hispanic cancer survivor…

Directed by Barbara Kopple

“Gumbo Coalition” follows two visionary Civil Rights leaders, Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, as they…

Directed by Olivia Kuan

The Houston Herricanes were a part of the first women's full tackle football league in the 1970s.…

Directed by Tamika Miller

“Honor Student" is a provocative thriller about a student who holds a teacher hostage to prove he…

Directed by Adrienne Acevedo Lovette

On a road trip with her unfaithful boyfriend Rand, Ellie discovers she has DID (once called multiple…

Directed by Pete Davis & Rebecca Davis

Follow the half-century story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of legendary social…

Directed by Kelley Kali

Based on the true story of Kemba Smith, a college student falls in love with a man, only to learn…

Directed by Ashley Sabin, David Redmon

For two decades, New York City cinephiles had access to a treasure trove of rare and esoteric films…

Directed by Elaine Sheldon

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, “King Coal” meditates on the complex history and future of…

Directed by Alice Rohrwacher

A group of archaeologists explore the black market of historical artifacts. Everyone has their own…

Directed by Lisa Steen

Louise, an aimless, 28-year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without…

Directed by Rosa Ruth Boesten

George Anthony Morton is a classical painter who spent 10 years in federal prison for dealing drugs…

Directed by Gelila Bekele, Armani Ortiz

Writer, actor, filmmaker, studio head and media titan, Tyler Perry is America’s consummate…

Directed by Michelle Danner

It’s 1963 and long before the #MeToo movement when 18-year-old Patricia Weir is kidnapped and…

Directed by Zornitsa Sophia

Elena is a theater director who lost the opportunity to have children at the age of 32. Trying…

Directed by Signe Baumane

This gloriously animated feature is about a spirited young woman determined to find love in the…

From the femme side of a gender binary comes a set of stories about passions and/or paychecks.…

Directed by Jennifer Takaki

For 50 years, Chinese-American photographer Corky Lee tirelessly documented Asian Pacific Americans…

Directed by Tracy Droz Tragos

A determined group of blue state advocates, midwives and doctors have been networking to increase…

Directed by Sara Newens, Mina T. Son

Was the planting of tamarisk trees along the historically Black Lawrence Crossley neighborhood in…

Directed by Katja Esson

Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the Liberty Square public-housing…

Directed by Caroline Suh, Cara Mones

In 2017, The New York Times published an article in which five women accused comedian Louis C.K. of…

Directed by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortes

“The Space Race” uncovers the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and…

Directed by Sandy Cummings

Marvel at the journey of Charity Woodrum, who overcomes poverty and then tragedy while chasing her…

Directed by Joanna Rudnick

“Story & Pictures By” is the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to…

Directed by Jen Markowitz

Buried within the woods of Alberta, Canada, sits camp fYrefly, a haven for LGBTQIA2S+ teens, far…

Directed by Madeline Burke, Kyra Newnam, Emily Guske

Featuring the stories of five women veterans who live in the greater Rockford, IL, area, the…

Directed by Sandra Mitrovic

The film follows comical and often crazy adventures of the tenants of a seemingly ordinary apartment…

Directed by Carmen Jaquier

After the sudden and mysterious death of her sister, a 17-year-old novitiate explores her God-given…

Directed by Ran Li

Thirty-year-old college lecturer Shu falls madly in love with theater director Fan in Prague during…

Directed by Claudia Ymi Sanchez

Transwomen face more difficulties in Latin America than in any other part of the world. In most of…

Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, Rob Grobman

“We Are Guardians” follows Indigenous forest guardian Marçal Guajajara and activist Puyr Tembé as…

Directed by Waad al-Kateab

“We Dare to Dream” is the story of refugee athletes from Iran, Syria, South Sudan and Cameroon who…

Directed by Connie Cocchia

Abbie departs for college leaving behind her parents and a non-verbal, autistic brother Kayden. As…

Directed by Jeanie Finlay

“Your Fat Friend” charts the rise of writer Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger to New York Times…