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This film explores the extensive network of political leaders, drug smugglers and weapons dealers and examines the effect of covert US foreign policy on communities throughout the world.

This thought-provoking animated film points out the connections between surplus and famine questions many assumptions about aid and trade, and shows a game of chance being played across continuents and through the centuries, as the crops contend with…

An experimental documentary that speaks to issues surrounding what is 'black enough'.

Homai Vyarawalia was a pioneer in the field of documentary photography. She began taking photographs in the 1930s her work spans more than three decades in the birth of the 'young India' and she is responsible for some of the key images through which…

This documentary is about the social injectice and exploitation of prostitutes living in the Karmathapuri area of Bombay, where over 200,000 women and girls ,(mainly from Nepal - a relatively poor country in comparison with urban India), live and…

Lulu and Lala are twin sisters, but live apart from one another. When Lala is watching a video of beautiful boys in a midnight screening, by chance she finds her father appears in it.

DANIELLA & NICOLE is a subtle and warm drama about the relationship between two very different women.

Seen through the eyes of the film-maker, herself a child of concentration camp servivors, the film looks at how the children of survivors have been affected by their parents ordeal as well as how their German contemporaries deal with the confusion…

In this remarkable and ground-breaking

A Powerfully challenging, experimental video that explores and communicates the filmmaker's feelings towards losing a friend who suffered from Bulimia Nervosa

A kinetic meditation on female expressions of power and desire. A chiaroscuro of tension and release.

An androgynous woman's surreal journey through the carnivalesque, that embodies spectatorship, erotica, sexuality, death and decay.

This moving and informative film features seven women--including the filmmaker -- describing their experiences with manic depression, multiple personalities, schizophrenia, euphoria and recovery.

DIANA was produced initially for the Portsmouth Rape Crisis Line for training purposes and to raise questions in the mind of 'professional' people who come into contact with women who have been raped or sexually assaulted.

Subverting themes from traditional stories, this entertaining and through provoking cartoon helps to show why women are under-presented in science, engineering and technology.

Images of non-perfect bodies are intercut with shots of food and eating while voices discuss the personal and political issues of women and body-images.

Every year an average of sixty service personnel are administratively discharged from the British forces on grounds of being lesbian or gay.

This situation comedy revolves around Emma who has just left her husband and moved with her daughter Jenny to live with her lover, middle class Diana.

A documentary drama oresented by writer Firdas Kanga exploring issues around sexuality and disability.

Douglas and the flour Baby is a modern day fairy tale set in the unchanged, north-eastern coastal town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea

The Takarazuka Revue is an enormously successful spectacular where an all women cast create fantasies of erotic love and sensitive men.

DREAMING BLIND is a thought provolking and terrifying exploration of the dreams of three blind people.

DRIVE SHE SAID is an abstracted meditation on the nature of hope, love and the unknown.

DUEL PASSPORT is an exploration of compulsion and the ritual in the form of a journey through real space/time and memory.

Eva Weber's humorous and passionate parody unfolds over nine mini-episodes. The story introduces the 'DYKE BLEND' couple, Donna and Louise and follows their evolving romance.

A celebration of lesbian sensuality and sexuality. An evocative montage of 110 images of touch -women touching, hair brushing, water stroking, bathing, eathing and loving - an erotic lesbian commercial.

EAT THE KIMONO is a brilliant documentary about Hanavagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her consersvative culture's contemot for independence and unconventionality.

This short, named after Sylvia Plath's last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy.

EERIE is a vertiginous lesbian kiss in a mountain cablecar.

In this whimsical comedy - drama, Eileen (Tami Hinz) buries roadkill and spies on various residents of a small Minnesota town, jotting down her observations and occasionally employing a camera and a tape recorder, perhaps hoping to somehow dive into…

EKLEIPSIS delves into two histories; the history of hysteria and the Cambodian civil war.

ELLA is a black version of the fairy-tale story 'Cinderella', cleverly adapted and performed originally as a play, by Catalyst - a group of young black people based in Liverpool, who started their own drama/dance group and are involved in all aspects…

A video featuring Black and Third World women artists and poets. Includes Audre Lourde, Sutapa Biswas, Mona Hatoum and Mei Ling Jin

ENCUENTRO is a documentation of the Third Latin American and Caribbean Feminist meeting which took place in Brazil in 1985, bringing together 900 women from Latin America and many other countries.

Ewa is a movingn account of a Jewish woman's survival under Nazi occupation.

EXILES is a portrait of age and ageing, memories recollected at the end of longer lives. Memories and routines are woven together in a moving and compelling portrait of past and present.

Jo Spence takes us through photographs from her 'family album', blowing the dust off and looking a bit harder at the things society ignores so that we may confront ourselves and accept what we usually cover up.'

"We like to think that our films try to pay tribute to key moments and movements in cinema’s history, as well as our own lives. They are, we hope, experimental, comical and maybe political”. Bev Zalcock and Sara Chambers a.k.a Pitbull Productions.

FASTER PRINCESS uses a mixture of live action, cut-outs and pop-up animation to tell the story a young woman preparing herself for the ball… a ball with a difference.

FIERCE DETAIL seeks the erotic in our everyday lives.

FIGHTING FOR PEACE, a production of the Women's Film Unit at Film Australia, is a rousing documentary about the Australian women's Peace Movement - past and present - told by those who helped shape it.

A love story set in the Middle Ages in which spiritual love is pitted against courtly love.

This lesbian re-working of Kenneth Anger's homoerotic classic, is a heady mis of influences from the avant garde to girl gang movies - Eisenstein to Prisoner Cell Block H.

FIRST BASE is a light-hearted drama focusing on the moment at which girls are still allowed to love other girls.

FIRST COMMUNION pieces together a montage if images and memories.

This feature-length lesbian film, a dystopian vision of the 28th Century brings together a freewheeling pyromaniac, a haunted necromaniac, a vengeful cartoonist, a rough lesbian in wacky German avant-garde future wear for adventure, murder, and lust.

A portrait of Indian writer and poet, Suniti Namjoshi.

Moving weightless in the water.