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Judith Higginbottom's WATER INTO WINE draws on the collective experiences of 27 women, including her, recordered over 13 lunar months.

In 1981 and 1982 Carole Isaacs and Julia Lesage visited Nicaragua and filmed in-depth interviews with women in the Managua area.

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.

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

One of many films comissioned by the U.N to commemorate the Decade For Women, which began in 1976, THE IMPOSSIBLE DECADE assesses what has actually happened to women in those then years.

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

Hot wheels, hot girls, hot cars, hot crashes. Gear up for a racy high octane overdrive of auto erotica…'

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.

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.

The film examines the meaning and the implicaition of deforming the bodies of women to match them to the symbols of man's imagination.

Through a series of interviews with a cross-section of women, this documentary examines the working conditions faced by outworkers and looks at the positive actions which have been taken by the workers themselves and by campaign groups.

A black and white Trans-Alantic road movie set in the American mid-west where driving is as essential as breathing.

Marlene is a police woman, Peter is an army officer and Bharti is a social worker. What they have in common as black people is that they were transracially placed (adopted/fostered) with White/Asian familes at childhood.

A GOAT NAMED TENSION is an audacious, witty and expertly filmed visual and verbal play around the expression 'I've got your goat'. At the beginning of the film, two women in 'nanny costumes' representing the two female protagonists, are looking for…

This piece uses animated photographs to produce powerful flashing imagery of a womans face moving closer and closer, staring at the viewer with deep burning passion.

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

Of Jeanette Williamson and Angela Carter, The Pink is a conglomeration of different fairy tales, focusing on the subversion of conventional gender.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Internationally acclaimed, collaborative documentary with/about Egyptian women.

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.

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…

When Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her group 'Frank Chicken', she decides to get married to please her mother.

WHO TAKES THE RAP - IMMIGRATION covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to the present day.

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.

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

A candid conversation between the Late Start collective and Audre Lorde. Late Start Collective were Viv Bietz, Shaheen Haq, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard

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.

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.

Employing footage from an obscure 8mm film trailer for Battle for the Planet of the Apes to highlight the unstable relationship between the real, historical past and the distant, imaginary future, this project revolves around a central question: Is…

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

Loosely based on the 1950's British detective film Sapphire, in which two detectives investigate the murder of a young woman who is passing for white.

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.

This short animated film is designed to encourage energy conversation in the home, the school and the workplace.

A MATTER OF INTEREST uses clear and imaginative animation to explore the complex and seemingly distant problem of international debt

Alien abduction saves Natalie from the menace of the school bullies and takes her off to the planet Helicon, where she is asked to solve the problems of failing Purple students.

Work-related stress can damage your health, in ways we are onlu just beginning to understand. While this film raises many questions about the causes and effects of stress, it is also accessible and entertaining

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…

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

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…

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.

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.

This humorous animated film graphically demonstrates the way in which men dominate language, monopolise space and structure women into subservient roles.

PRETEND YOU'LL SURVIVE uses a combination of different animation techniques to conjure up a thought-provoking challenge to prehaps the greatest threat we face in the Twentieth Century.

This lively animated film deals with the important issue of health and safety at work.