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Two stories of paternal abuse, one fictional fairy tale and one true story, are interwined to evoke the pain and anger of the relationship between daughter and father.

I went Israel to see for myself, knowing that Israel is a mixed population, in every way, and hoping to find Israelis who weren't necessarily holocaust survivors, or Europeans, or warmongers, or heterosexial, or men.' (Ruth Novaczeck)

SYVILLA: THEY DANCE TO HER DRUM is a documentary film portraying the life of, first-generation African-American concert dancer, Syvilla Fort, whose enormous contributions to the performing arts and her significance as a teacher left an indelible…

A visual, surrealistic narrative of a woman travelling both literally and psychically through an interior space of several rooms.

SWEET SUGAR RAGE shows the work of, and explores the methods used by the theatre collective Sistren to highlight the harsh conditions facing female workers on a Jamaican sugar estate.

Child layers on artifice and excess as the TV serial sputters apart in a dizzyiny discountinuous montage.

Although rooted in the Victorian values of the time, A House Divided breaks with the dominant tradition.

Substituting sly metaphor for political rhetoric on immigration, Lin examines our world of ethical and racial complexities.

STIGMATA is a riveting look at body modification such as tattooing, cutting, piercing and branding, practices which are becoming increasingly popular amoungst women.

The film is a lyrical portrait of the work atmosphere in part of the Ropery of the former Royal Dockyard at Chatham.

Recent years have seen a deepening divide in attitudes towards maternity care.

In 1985, 17,000 women descended on Nairobi for the International Women's Conference.

With "Sparklehorse", Gariné Torossian returns to the collage style of filmmaking explored in her earlier films, "Visions," "Girl From Moush," and "Drowning In Flames." "Sparklehorse" subtly conveys, with characteristic poetry, the ways in which…

SPACE INVADERS is a science fantasy that maps the terrain of what might have been regarded, in the 60's, as a 'global village', the giant video screen of the disco, the home television and the video arcade game.

SPACE DOG ASSASSIN features Pit Bull Production's indefatigable star Maisie as the dog who fell to the earth; her assignment: 'To kill the cabinet!'

This stylistic, non-narrative film is a complex, impessionistic work documenting and interpreting a Sri Lankan ritual of spirit possession and cure through the exploration of various bodily states.

Life was a series of routines, and Sunday was the day of the week. Each New Year, I would check what day Christmas fell on. If it were a Sunday it meant we didn't have to go to Church twice in one week and the whole year felt better.' (Merilee…

This animated film is constructed as 'an opera in three tragic acts', concentrating on the inherent bias of the tribunals and courts of law.

This is a documentary animated film based on the true story of Josie O'dwyer, and using her own voice as personal commentary.

This compelling and beautifully made documentary tells the life story of Blue Lunden, a lesbain/feminist peace activist who found herself run out of New Orleans during the 1950s for wearing men's clothes.

Ostensibly a film about the experience of Australian women and their education, SNAKES AND LADDERS is a feminist documentary of great humour and artist merit.

SLIDES I-V is a continuing equence of tactile films made in the printer from my earlier material.

A scrambling of culural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images of a performance artist with the same woman as a nude dander in a peep show.

A discussion about body images, sexuality, society, conditioning of what women should look like, the fashion industry's profits from women's insecurities and the pressures on women to conform.

This innovative and entertaining documentary explores the varied work, motivation, politics and lifestyles of five Black women photographers based in Birmingham.

Set in Kumba, a small town in Southwest Cameroon, Sisters in Law follows the work of the female State Counsel and Court President as they try to help women to change their lives. Incredibly moving and at times disturbing, Kim Longinotto's latest film…

White petals falling pearls of pain a wing flutters a stain bleeds and the sings of the father forever remain.'

Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play.

Black Voices, the Birmingham based all-female group of cappella singers expresses through the lyrics of songs, fused with free-style movement of dances, the issue of the high incidence of serious mental health illness amoung Carribean immigrants in…

This is the first known Irish film by a lesbian writer/director to be shot in Ireland by an almost-entirely Irish crew and deals with themes of invisibility, difference and self-expression.

SHUBH-VIVAH examines the attitudes towards women that prevail from birth and emphasises the vital role education and economic independence play in gaining freedom for women.

Based on a true story about the filmmaker's grandmother who, after the death of her mother, put a shrine to St Mary Magdalene in a wood. The Department of Transport now plans to build a new motorway running straight through the wood. Looks at how the…

An erotic urban allegory: a police woman pursues a dark silhouette. A strange duel ensues between violence and desire.

This film is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo where all the hosts are women who have decided to live as men.

A woman's voice recounts a subversive tale, interweaving suburban kitsch with childhood defiance.

A video-film-music documentary by and about the dykes beginning to find culture/lives they can stand through punk rock.

Featuring the Carpenters song 'Close To You', this is an ode to love and fantasy.

SHE SAID explores the theme of women and work, using the formal properties of film to reflect on the overlap between work and free time.

Two women- one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering - interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island.

SHADOWS OF A JOURNEY was filmed on a ferry going to the Isle of Harris from the Isle of Skye.

The film is about internal and external states ofemergency, about personal and collective 'shadows' (past, memories and conditioned stereotypes), about resistance and spirit.

A lyrical, sensual place which deals with issues surrounding skin colour and codes of Blackness.

Then you lit a cigarette and carefully put the tip of it to the corner of the photograph and watched it smoulder and curl…' SEX LIES RELIGION is a sexy dyke film made the day after two women met at the Clit Club.

SERPENT RIVER is the final part ofa trilogy (see Uranium Hex and Plutonium Blonde) of anti-nuclear films in which the filmmaker makes visible the invisible menace of radioactivity.

SERIOUS UNDERTAKINGS takes up these themes of culture, language and politics in a questioning and innovative way.

Judy is 7-years-old and about to take her First Communion. In her realm, rituals are stolen from adults and invested with a peculiar magic.

SEPARATE SKIN intercuts present day 'reality' with both flashbacks and fantasy sequences revealing Emily's state of mind as she battles with her fears and desires.

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN invents an 'alphabet' of kitchen apppliances and these recognisable 'signs' of domestic industry become instruments of mad music or interpersonal violence - a vehicle for the rage and frustration of the unsimiling antithesis…

A Channel 4 documentary, co-produced with the Arts Council, looking at the work of four women film makers - Annabel Nicolson, Lis Rhodes, Jo Davis and Tina Keane - and the role of Circles in providing a historical and contemporary context for women…

Women in two very different 'Third World' environments are shown making their own efforts to improve their circumstances and achieve equal rights.