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A featurette which uses the female buddy movie to explore the relationship between a woman and her dog.

This visually rich and haunting film follows the journey of a young woman, Cait, through her pain from a broken relationship to her eventual resolution.

MADE IN CHINA is a personal film about a Chinese American's search for identity.

It is the story of seventy years of change and upheaval, the gradual disintegration of the traditional family and the search for new forms and ways of relating as typified by Jeni's attempt to break the pattern of the past and to create a new…

Intercut with Punch & Judy images, this documentary reveals the common ground shared by women of different classes and cultures as they explore the reasons why they stayed in violent relationships for so long and their lives now, after “making the…

She has been portrayed as a powerful matriarch within the confines of the miner's home and family.

MAMA I’M CRYING is a lively documentary about the personal story of a Black woman, Joyce Seroke, and a white Jewish woman, Betty Wolpert

The screen in MAN MADE IMAGES is a mirror to my consciousness, providing a way to reflect my transfer from a male defined woman to a woman searching for her definition.' (Rachel Finkelstein)

Exploring both dance and some of the properties of film, MANTRA begins by recreating movement through a rhythmic series of still images.

A hallucinogenic experience on a sunny afternoon to a soundtrack of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit'.

MARY, MARY is the true story of 11-year old Mary Bell who killed two small boys in England in 1986

MASQUERADE is an amusing animated film dealing with the effects of magazine images on women.

Five years after the making of the video portrait Boys in the Backyard, the filmmaker returns to San Francisco to see what has become of MATT.

A homage to film noir, soap thrillers and Mexian comic book generate the action.

A video exploring photographic representation of experiences of migration and identity.

A tribute to African-American women activisits, whose violent actions were often characterised as being the result of mental illness.

Using magic realism, MEMSAHIB RITA looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her whiite mother.

Images and sounds of American mass media are dissected and carefully composed into a rapid-fire montage which reveals the processes at work.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

MILK AND GLASS is primarily concerned with exploring where woman is in relation to sexual desire.

In an expression of levels of balance and control, ritual and sound osciliate between a point of contact and an accompanying break.

Mixing reality with fairy tale MISS QUEENCAKE follows the plight of Bira, a 16-year-old mixed race girl from the North of England.

Using a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the play of children. MONIQUE is a compelling exploration of identity and memory.

MONOMYTH is an experimental film that uses time, space, ritual and repetition to depict loss.

This beautiful documentary uses the art of video to examine the working lives of some Western Australian Aboriginal women.

The relationship between Kay and her adopted daughter, Chris, is thrown wide open when Chris decides to meet her natural mother.

The aim of this video is to raise issues about safer sex for women in a way which wil enable women watching the video to discuss their own fears, experiences and sucesses about safer sex more easily.

MOVE OVER DARLING is an informative magazine style careers guide focusing on women in the media.

Made by a single mother, MUM'S THE WORD looks at three single mothers, living on social security benefit or pensions, and explores how they maintain thei families and survive - often below the 'poverty line'.

Relating a real case, this animated film is devised as a play and is set in the crown court.

Powerful interviews with feminist leaders including bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, and Urvsahi Vaid are intercut with documentary sequences to engagingly explore the past and present status of the women's movement.

MYSTERIES is a photomontage film, Beginning with a quotation from a dream , it becomes the filmmakers interpretation of the harvest and the old mystic theme of Mysteries.

The traditional expectations of an Indian family in the South Pacific (NZ) are confronted in this short drama written and directed by Mandrika Rupa.

An East Indian Canadian travels to India to meet her father's family. She finds that India is in no simple way her 'home', yet she also can't hide behind the tourist's camera. Western representations of India are challenged as we see India through a…

NICARGAGUA , DREAM OF A FREE COUNTRY is a positive and refreshing look at women's participation in Nicaragua's national struggle for self-determination.

NICE COLOURED GIRLS is a stylised experimental drama exploring attitudes of Aboriginal women to white women and vice versa.

Ultimately, the film is a celebration which aims to create a space for another voice to speak about a part of female experience long-shrouded in silence and ignominy.

NIETTA'S DIARY is a film about the lesbian relationship of Nietta Apra and Linda (Flafi) Mazzuccato in pre and post war italy.

This is the age of the Personal Computer the Private Catacomb for the switched-on elite. Its dark doorways are for the wandering homeless…true survivors…

It is night and, in the foyer of a small hotel, a receptionist performs her tasks, unhurried and impassive, her face ghost-white, an emotional mask.

No Glove No Love is a very hot public service announcement from Germany.

NO LONGER SILENT takes a revealing look at aspects of this discrimination and at the determination of some Indian women to bring about change.

Like its predecessor, Through the Glass Celling, this short animated film is a fairy story with a difference: it takes as its theme the very issue of harassment at work.

Sydney writer and performer Norrie May Welby argues the case for a genderless society.

A timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety of Paris. She meets and falls…

NOW PRETEND is an experimental investigation into the use of race as an arbitrary signifier.

NUCLEAR DEFENCE LIVING IN A FOOL'S PARASIDE explores the reaction of participants and onlookers on the day, making connections between our attitudes to protest and the influence of the education systems, the media and the state.

OFTEN DURING THE DAY focuses on the activities that take place in the kitchen. A series of delicately tinted black and white stills draw our attention to those familiar corners of the kitchen where dirt gets trapped; the dark stains left by tea…

A faithful adaptation of Dorothy Bussy's autobiographical novel. OLIVIA is the story of an English girl sent to finishing school in France towards the end of the 19th Century.

Set against the backdrop of modern-day Sydney, this heist-style thriller involves four politicalised women from varying backgrounds, who conspire to sabotage the research programme of a multi-national firm, Utero, which is engaged in reproductive…