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Nicaraguan women describe details of their daily lives under the Somoza regime in this instructive documentary.

Su Friedrich's experimental documentary looks at both the mother/daughter relationship and the demands of national identity.

THE THIRD WOMAN is a drama about an Iranian woman in an Islamic resistance group during the post-revolutionary period.

Presents a forgotten classic about a robbery, a taxi and a stolen bus with a mighty cast of local Black and white dykes.

An early comedy, which tells a tale of martial strife - mutual suspicion comes between a woman and her husband.

This video is humorous, absurd, heartfeld and worshipful look at sex. Guided through this unique adventure by sexpert extraordinaire Annie Sprinkle and the 'Transformation Facilitators' , you will explore the ancient and forbidden knowledge about…

Inspired by Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary', this is the story of Mme. Beudet who is married to a bombastic older man.

THE RIGHTEOUS BABES passionately aruges that feminism in the 1990s is at its most vibrant in popular culture and in particular in rock music.

Of Jeanette Williamson and Angela Carter, The Pink is a conglomeration of different fairy tales, focusing on the subversion of conventional gender.

The reality of violence is represented by live action black and white shots of two knives being sharpened for the slaughter.

This animated film deals with the sheer rediculousness of women office workers' daily routine.

An evocative animation that illusrates the freedom a woman experience when she takes to the water.

This unconventional comedy explores women's sexuality through candid stories of sexual discoveries, fantasies and pleasures.

THE MARK OF LILITH is a film that deconstructs traditional images of the vampire and confronts power, race and gender politics within relationships.

With the unique style that has characterised her for previous features, Yvonne Rainer explores the issues of sexuality, ageing, power relations and political activism.

A documentary that celebrates the achievements of the world's first woman filmmaker, including clips from 16 of her films.

THE LONDON STORY is a camp tale of espionage. Filmed on location in London, images of Whitehall and the Central Statistics Office form the back drop for the woman 'spy' (sunglasses and mink coat) and her collaborators, the Doorman and the Xerox man,…

A part-dramatised, often humour, documentary showing some of the ways the state and the system have pushed women into economic dependence on men in different historical periods, the fights wages against this and the situation at the present time.

THE INVISIBLE HANDS is a contemporary story about two seemingly unconnected people.

One of many films comissioned by the U.N to commemorate the Decade For Women, which began in 1976, THE IMPOSSIBLE DECADE assesses what has actually happened to women in those then years.

This documentary takes a critical look at the conditions of employment for the one in three women who work as typists, receptionists, clerks and secretaries in Great Britian and exmaines why women in these positions are often underpaid and exploited.

Being gay in Ireland was once a crime and many gays and lesbians emigrated to America where they hoped they would be free.

What starts as a row over the child's haircut, develops to explore the wider social issues of the responsibilities of child rearing and childcare.

Nostalgia and memory are combined with the theme of departures and arrival symbolised by the activity of the city.

When Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her group 'Frank Chicken', she decides to get married to please her mother.

THE FEMALE CLOSET takes an historical look at the world of 'high art' through the lives and work of three women artists.

This film uses a 'scene' between a woman and a female-to-male transsexual to mobilise Giles Deleuze's work on masochism as explored in his book - 'Coldness and Cruelty'.

THE ELECTRONIC SWEATSHOP explores the automation of work in a time of recession: the loss of control over work, the fragmentation of tasks, the mental strain and high levels of stress that result in many health problems, the new forms of electronic…

A tongue-and-cheek presentation of the booklet that accompanies a newly-marketed, modern cooking applicance: an electric wok.

THE DISPLACED VIEW is a film that moveingly dpicts the odyssey of an American-born Japanese granddaughter in search of her identity through her grandmother who is the last of the family born in Japan.

This videotape is a dynamic series of skits and performances by the Disabled Women's Theatre Project.

The film expresses the dilemma of motherhood: caught in between a childhood world and a reality in which the dreams of princessess rapidly dissolves into mountains of housework, nappies and routine chores.

THE DEATH OF A FATHER sets out to explore the way in which women are rendered silent, absent or marginal within a male-centered language system.

THE DANCING SILHOUETTES is about Lotte Reiniger who made the first full-length animated feature film in the history of the cinema.

This tongue-in-cheek video raises questions around the myth of the eternally smooth and hairless woman and the reality of the process necessary to conform to this ideal.

A “narrative” film centered on young artists living in New York City around 1979. The film is about a certain stage in the development of a young artist confronting the real world in terms of her own idealistic notions of what art is supposed to do.…

Using a combbination of pastel coloured lines drawings and atmospheric music, this lively animation captures and recreates all the thrills, spectacle and excitement of the Big Top, and the interaction between audience and performer. ]

Girls' school stories have been uniquely popular with girls worldwide throughout the 20th century, but the genre has faced widespread dismissal, critiscism, hostility and redicule for ites representations of a girl - and women - centered world.

Intermingling memories, dreams and symbols relating to birth, death and time, this non-traditional narrative shows us sisters at three stages of life.

An imaginary biography of Audre Lorde - African-American, lesbian, feminist, professor, mother, visionary and 'warrior poet' - who died of breast cancer, metastasised to her liver in 1992.

The bold exploration of the relationship between a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her black daughter who embarks on a modelling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on…

Sophisiticated story-telling full of digression, sharply-observed detail and a great deal of wi as well as a campaigning spirit, all to be found in THE BLOT

A personal film which attempts to convey the feeling of those women who find themselves in an arranged marriage.

Taking 100 feet of film shoot at a childrens party.

All I know is like, 25 days after I come out and that I get it in a towel. It goes after three days!'

TERMINALS is a stream-of-consciousness collage, which asks us to look at and question the dangers of technological advances and nuclear power.

Tenosynovitis is a work-relationed disease - a form of Repetitive strain injury - which is now the most common cause of lost working time for women and the third most common for men.

Confusion, underlying meaning and unspoken truths are often associated with the dialectic of sexual communication. Mingled with the intensity and unpredictability of a “one night stand,” they generate unique sensations – mixed emotion, risk, and…

Originally shot on 35mm, this beautifully filmed witty short film offers a gorgeous seduction on horseback, creating an erotic charge between two women.

This film relates to what I'd call the typical Jewish London woman of my generation: growing up in the 60's, at a comprehensive school… the confusion of denying your culture and your sexuality for years through having it beaten out of you - and then…