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  • Dagh Dagh Ujala (This Stained Dawn). Directed by Anam Abbas, 2021. – A feature documentary that explores the current feminist movement in urban Pakistan through the eyes of women organizers of the Aurat March (Women’s March) as we countdown to the event, when 10,000 protesters gathered in Karachi on 8th March 2020. https://othermemorymedia.com/thisstaineddawn/
  • Fannie Lou Hamer’s America. Directed by Joy Elaine Davenport, 2022. – Fannie Lou Hamer’s America is a new and original documentary told through the public speeches, personal interviews, and powerful songs of the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist. https://www.fannielouhamersamerica.com/
  • Feminista: A Journey to the Heart of Feminism in Europe. Directed by Myriam Fougère, 2017 – Filmmaker Myriam Fougère joined an international group of young feminists who were traveling across twenty countries – from Turkey to Portugal, by way of the Balkans, to Italy, Spain and Portugal – to make connections and unite forces with other women. https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/feminista-a-journey-to-the-heart-of-feminism-in-europe/
  • She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry. Directed by Mary Dore, Music Box Films, 2014. – provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it. https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/shes-beautiful-when-shes-angry/
  • The Janes. Directed by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, 2022. – In the pre-Roe v. Wade era––a time when abortion was a crime in most states and even circulating information about abortion was a felony in Illinois––the Janes provided low-cost and free abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. https://www.hbo.com/movies/the-janes
  • Under G-d. Directed by Paula Eiselt, 2023. – Inspired by the lawsuits filed in Florida challenging the state’s abortion ban on the basis of religious freedom, Under G-d is a documentary short film about the national Jewish response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization U.S. Supreme Court decision woven through the lived experiences of impacted Jewish women and the various lawsuits currently being launched by rabbis, Jewish organizations and interfaith leaders to challenge the overturning of Roe v. Wade, state by state. https://www.paulaeiselt.com/under-g_d

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