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FOCII brings together performance, art and film. A woman dances and mimes, her stark white image moving across a red floor, reflected in a fractured wall of mirrors.

In FOR GOOD Angie, Helen and Geoff, who suffer from cerebral palsy, talk about their experiences of living in that able-bodied world.

FOR LOVE OR MONEY is an exhilarating, superbly crafted feature length film. It tells the story of women's working lives throughout Australia's history.

The point of departure in a relationship is a time when emotions, feelings and memories become hightened.

FOUR WOMEN is an experimental dance film. It employs the use of stylised movements and dress to convey the spirit of African-American womanhood from an embryonic stage in the motherland Africa, through to the struggle to survive in America today.

The filmmaker combines her personal story (bracketing the film with a tongue-in-cheek fashion show by the film maker herself) with the fashion journeys of six other lesbians.

This detailed and moving documentary examines arguments from various viewpoints on the ordination of women into the priesthood.

This documentary is about the life and work of Ella Baker, veteran American Civil Rights campaigner, a militant political activist who became best known for her championing of non-violent methods of civil disobedience.

In Susan Stein's early film, G, her interest is language and work and how the two are connected.

Since 1992, Gay Youth and its 16-page study guide have been among the most widely used, respected and effective educational tools for understanding the experiences of gay and lesbian adolescents. By contrasting the tragic death of 20-year old Bobby…

This text of Gently Down The Stream is a succession of fourteen dreams taken from eight years of my journals.' (Su Friedrich)

GIFT OF A GIRL concentrates on the movement to stop female infanticide rather than the tragedies of its victims.

Using some of the devices of the genre of melodrama - the staircase, the father - as some kind of destiny.

A short animation depicting an ironic take on the Garden of Eden staring 'eve & eve'.

A Girl’s Own Story offers a lyrical exploration of three young girls on the brink of womanhood in a ‘60s Australia in a state of cultural flux. Ideas explored here – including the inherent violence of sexuality; dysfunctional relationships and the…

Using a combination of live action and animation this fast-moving, witty film charts the constant harassment which women face every day, and clearly depicts the continuum, which ranges from street humour to stereotyped media images to actual physical…

Based on a Christina Rossetti's romantic poem of the same name, GOBLIN MARKET tells the story of two sisters tempted by goblins to eat enchanted fruit.

“We want our films to be enjoyed and we want to convey the enjoyment we experience in making them. To misquote Marilyn Tweedie “We require filmic pleasure!” - Bev Zalcock and Sara Chambers a.k.a Pitbull Productions.

A saccharine tune from the 50's Mickey Mouse Club is transformed into a wild samba celebration of contemporary lesbian expression.

in 1929 Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow. More than 50 years later she was among the women fighting against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.

Groove frantically plunges into the dark history of two women fleeing violent crack dealers in the north of England.

GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980's, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen.

HAIRPIECE is an animated satire on Black consciousness from the standpoint of various haircare devices.

The issues surrounding violence against women, in a particular wife-battering and the social structures within which women continue to be victims, are effectively put across using an innovative style of drawn animation.

Thirteen 1 minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by Lis Rhodes, reflecting on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives (pornography, violence, nuclear weapons) and the many forms that resistance takes.

HELL TO PAY exposes the devastating effects of the foreign debt in Bolivia, through the impassioned testimony of women from the countryside, the mining communities, and the capital, La Paz' (Margarita Laime)

HEY MACK takes the insistent image of passing trucks, filmed from a pedestrian viewpoint, and sets them against the feminist perspective of music by Disband, a New york-based group of women.

Internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women.

Filmed in black and white, this evocative short is a poignant relection on the passing of wisdom.

The creativity and the rich cultural and artistic lives of women embroiderers inspire HIDDEN WORLDS.

Four women fall into conversation in a launderette. As the machines whirl and the powder flows, they talk about their housing experiences, hopes and expectations.

A warm film, which uses humour to make the experience of growing up gay accessible to everyone.

Under the NHS every woman has the right to have her baby at home. She is entitled to the services of a qualified NHS midwife for antenatal care in her own home and attendance at the birth.

A tale of ordinary obession about a dishevelled dyke who discovers the key to an older woman's art deco flat.

HOME-MADE MELODRAMA follows the struggles of three women whose search for harmony takes them through pressures and contradictions, jealousies and insecurities.

Using archive stills, HOME FOR THE PEOPLE looks back to the slums of 1848 and asks what improvements have been made since then.

A place where travellers and/or lovers rendezvous or rest; a visit possibly forgotten in its transience or remembered by its intensity.

This a video about wanting to be alone and being lonely - a meditation on the cult of individuality and independence in our anxious urban world.

The comedy industry has always put women and Black people in the firing line - which makes I BE DONE BEEN WAS IS all the more important.

In I DISH a woman searches for and finds, then carefully digs out, a fish from a vast wet beach.

The stories told in this video are personal memories but they are also about the nature of memory - how it's kept and how it can be challenged by the conflicting memories of others - and the significance of these stories you tell yourself to your…

The film was made because of my own experience of anorexia, in relation to developing as an individual/woman in this society… also because I feel that subsituting an obsession with the body and with food for a deeper, less tangible problem is a very…

I'LL BE THERE FOR ALL TIME is an informative and entertaining film which challenges the popular notion that women's place is in the home. Its basic premise is that a knowledge of women's history is essential: without it, women are always beginning…

I'M BRITISH BUT… uses Bhangra music, Bangla music and the testimonies of sons and daughters of Asian Britons to discover a defiant popular culture - a synthesis, part Asian, part British.

Rachel is a Jewish woman, in her early forties, living alone in a small council flat in a tower block in the city. She never leaves the flat and has retreated into a life of repetitive domestic ritual.

Witty and provocative I'M NOT A FEMINIST, BUT… shakes the foundations upon which fundamental inequalities have been built by skilfully confronting sexism at its own game.

In the 1970's the actor Sir Alex Guinness wrote a letter of complaint to the The Times newspaper about the lack of attention shop assisants gave to customers.

This powerful documentary focuses on HIV-positive women and women with AIDS in New York State, making the transition form prison to independent living.

Made in film noir style, ILLUSIONS plays inventively on themes of cultural, racial and sexual domination…