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Fred and Frances Cook' is a TV cookery programme. Frances is the assistant and partner, who fred abandons.

AZAADI is the story of Parvati, a woman who lives in a basement flat with her husband, a frustrated writer.

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

Seventeen year old girls Jill and Oona explore their sexuality in between bouts of boxing and playfighting. Yet when Oona invites Jill back to her house, the sparring spills over into something much more intense.

Nicole and Diana, both in their early twenties, are close friends. They have reached a crucial moment in their lives.

A shocking and disturbing film about homophobia in the United States.

Emina, Yetka, Yehudit, Mita and Rachel: Women born at the turn of the century in Russia or Poland, went to Palestine in the twenties 'to build the country by building themselves'. Sixty years later they evoke the adventures, hopes and the struggles…

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

A woman locked up in a cell, and deprived of any outside stimulus, begins to fantasise about the women in the next cell, to the extent that fantasy and reality are no longer separate entities

COALMINING WOMEN is a documentary about women who have forced their way into 'men's work' in order to gain access to decent wage.

Forced to leave Ireland after the birth of her two illegitimate children Eileen O'sulivan sought to re-establish herself in England as a 'good' woman.

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

WOMEN OF THE RHONDDA turns much needed attention to the role played by women in the gruelling Welsh Miners' Strikes of the 20s and 30s

A tale of adopted personas compellingly bound to one another, killing time on a rainy afternoon.

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

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.

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

This video is a body substitute, examining the ways in which new technology succeeds and fails as a holding medium for a long distance relationship.

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

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

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

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.

Working with footage of wrestlers and eager audiences - by the ringside and in front of their TV sets - the film examines peoples responses to images of violence as entertainment.

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…

A celebration of lesbian desire and identity in the form of a pop promo. With a tune so catchy you'll be singing it all day!

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

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

A wishful memory of days gone swimming.

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

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

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

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…

AWAY FROM THE SIDEWALK is about women learning to be assertive and active participants in politics, and looks at Nigerian women's increasingly active role in political issues affecting their countrys future.

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.

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.

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…

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

Cathy lives an apparently uneventful life in Birmingham, until she is asked to write an article for a community magazine.

An examination of a breakdown on one'sown language. It is record of a personal struggle in trying to construct meaning as an outsider in foreign culture.

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, LEILA AND THE WOLVES is an exploration of collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century of the Middle-East, both in Palestine and…

The novel aspects of the theme raised in Helen Doyle's tape are represented by her attempts to forge conceptual links between creativity and madness inwomen.

THIS ISN'T WONDERLAND explores the meaning and politics of 'women and madness' from a feminist perspective, threading together elements of narrative, theatre and documentary.

FIERCE DETAIL seeks the erotic in our everyday lives.

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

JUST LIKE SARAH BERNHARDT humorously explores sexuality and Jewish identity, intertwining the complex relationship of performance and film. A woman tells a story of her intense meeting with another woman.

Drawing on Western histories of glamour, Hollywood and powerful Jewish icons such as Barbra Streisand as portrayed in the 1960's film Funny Girl.

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…

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

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.

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…