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The Unfixing
A mother faces overwhelming challenges of personal and global loss as her children inherit a world plagued by environmental crises. Her journey transforms grief into a new story, one that sees loss as an opportunity to forge a future of resilience and togetherness.
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MY SEXTORTION DIARY
Trapped in a digital blackmail labyrinth after her computer is stolen, director Pati Franquesa documents the real-time persecution to maintain bodily autonomy and survive.
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SALLY!
Sally Gearhart was a charismatic radical lesbian activist, author, and academic who spearheaded the 1970s and 80s lesbian feminist movement, yet her remarkable contributions have been largely unrecognized. This documentary changes that.
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My Stolen Planet
Farah, an Iranian woman, was born in 1979 at the end of the Islamic Revolution, shortly after the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Drawing on personal archives and 8mm archival recordings of strangers' lives, she contrasts moments of private joy with public defiance to show lives of women under the regimented oppression in Tehran.
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Is There Anybody Out There?
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
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Bye Bye Tiberias
Years after leaving her Palestinian village to pursue an acting career in France, Emmy-nominated Hiam Abbass (SUCCESSION, RAMY, BLADE RUNNER) returns home with her daughter, in this intimate documentary about four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation.
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My Name Is Andrea
A hybrid feature documentary about controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life.
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Loud Enough
After surviving a life-threatening sexual assault and being dismissed by the legal system, college student Madison Smith and her tight-knit Kansas family take on the local prosecutor to fight for justice and systemic change.
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Razing Liberty Square
Eight miles inland of Miami’s beaches, Liberty City residents fight to save their community from climate gentrification: their land, sitting on a ridge, becomes real estate gold.
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A Shot at History
After leading her all-female team to develop a lifesaving COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Nita Patel returns home to India to fulfill a childhood promise she made to her father and heal the parts of herself she sacrificed along the way.
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Marianne
Set in the context of France's laïcité, (France's version of secularism), MARIANNE follows seven Muslim women challenging bans on wearing hijabs, headscarfs, face coverings, and abayas at school and in public. Their stories resonate globally, urging viewers to reevaluate liberty, feminism, and Western identity.
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Esther Newton Made Me Gay
A feature documentary about the pathbreaking cultural anthropologist, dog agility enthusiast, and iconic butch lesbian, Esther Newton.
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What About China?
Offering a journey into the wealth of China’s traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter, the film addresses the process of "harmonising" rural China, due to the country's Great Uprooting. It seeks to engage the viewer further by asking: What exactly is disappearing? And how?
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80 Years Later
Through multigenerational conversations, 80 Years Later engages with the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II.
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Behind the Rage
Women’s rights activist and BAFTA, Peabody, and Emmy-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan explores male violence against the women they claim to love – and asks if, behind the rage, rehabilitation and change is possible.
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A Woman on the Outside
A deeply American story about the legacy of mass incarceration. Kristal Bush, who has watched nearly every man in her life disappear into prison, channels her struggle into reuniting other Philadelphia families divided by the correctional system.
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WINN
This powerful, short documentary exposes the horrifying experience that incarcerated pregnant women endure and documents Pamela Winn's mission to end shackling and ultimately prison birth.
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Rebel Dykes
REBEL DYKES is a riotous documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in post-punk, 1980s London.
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Looking for Simone
Chronicling Simone de Beauvoir's journey writing the groundbreaking feminist text "The Second Sex," this film links her pioneering ideas to modern women's struggles.
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The Tallest Dwarf
Visually striking, humorous, and touching, THE TALLEST DWARF is both personal and political – inviting audiences to rethink identity, disability, and what it means to belong in a world that wants to change who you are.
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The Inquisitor
In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress. THE INQUISITOR chronicles Representative Jordan’s meteoric rise offering a blueprint for uniting a divided America through a turbulent political era.
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A Mother Apart
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin radically re-imagines the essential art of mothering.
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Widow Champion
Thrown out of her home and off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow becomes a fighter for women’s land rights in a deeply patriarchal community. Her story explores the delicate balance between a deep-rooted culture and a changing world.
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Lesbian Custody
Giving access to a forgotten chapter of queer history and their own shared past, retired filmmaker Frances Reid and her stepdaughter Julie Stevens revisit Reid’s groundbreaking 1977 documentary IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF CHILDREN, about lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children.
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More Than Half of the Films Shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature in the 98th Academy Awards are by WMM Filmmakers!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the shortlist for the upcoming 98th Oscars, and Women Make Movie filmmakers are extremely well represented! More than half of the films shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature are by WMM filmmakers. This is a milestone for feminist filmmaking, and it builds on an autumn of nominations and wins that shows that...
Read Post Five Films Made with the Support of our Production Assistance Program to Premiere in Competition at Sundance 2026!
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival lineup is here, and five films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program will make their World Premieres in competition! Additionally, three new films from program alum Liz Garbus, Dawn Porter, and Alysa Nahmias will also premiere. Below are the five WMM Production Assistance films premiering at Sundance: ...
Read Post 9-MONTH CONTRACT Receives Special Mention at DOC NYC; NUNS VS. THE VATICAN Wins Subject Matter Award
We are pleased to share that 9-MONTH CONTRACT (dir. Ketevan Vashagashvili; prods. Anna Khazaradze, Nino Chichua), made with the support of Women Make Movies’ Production Assistance Program, has received a Special Mention in the International Competition at the 2025 DOC NYC Feature Film Jury Awards. The film follows a Georgian mother who, striving to provide a better future for...
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