An Island Surrounded by Water
A film by Maria Novaro, 1985, 25 min., Color
A beautiful and poetic account of a young girl's search for her mother, who left mysteriously to join a guerilla movement. The narrative combines her...

Anna from Benin
A film by Monique Mbeka Phoba, 2000, 45 min., Color
ANNA FROM BENIN is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary 17th year old. Anna is one of 31 children that her father has had with his 5 wives. ...

The Basement Girl
A film by Midi Onodera, 2000, 12 min., Color
Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the...

Belfast Girls
A film by Malin Andersson, 2006, 58 min., Color
BELFAST GIRLS is a quiet, powerful story of two young women growing up in a city where neighbors are cut off from each other by permanent concrete and...

Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang
A film by Celeste Crenshaw and Paula Caffey, 1999, 52 min., Color
BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues--fro...

Black, Bold and Beautiful: Black Women's Hair
Directed by Nadine Valcin and Produced by Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny, 1999, 40 min., Color
Afros, braids or corn rows--hairstyles have always carried a social message, and few issues cause as many battles between black parents and their daug...

The Children We Sacrifice
A film by Grace Poore, 2000, 61 min., Color
Shot in India, Sri Lanka, Canada and the United States, and screened in 18 countries, this evocative, visually powerful documentary is about incestuou...

Chronic And Other Films
Three films by Jennifer Reeves, 1993, 58 min., Color/BW
This collection of films from emerging filmmaker Jennifer Reeves includes THE GIRL'S NERVY, MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET, and CHRONIC. Innovative, percepti...

Closer
Directed by Tina Gharavi, 2000, 24 min., Color
An experimental documentary which has at its heart a poignant character study of a 17 year-old lesbian living in Newcastle, England, CLOSER innovative...

Cusp
A film by Ruth Sergel, 2000, 25 min., Color
There is an electric moment for girls on the cusp of adolescence, as they leave behind the bold egoism of girlhood for the shaky self-consciousness of...

Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust
A film by Martha Goell Lubell and Barbara Attie, 1999, 57 min., Color
Why would a young person choose resistance rather than submission during Hitler's reign of terror while her world was collapsing around her? In this ...

Daughters of War
A film by Maria Barea, 1998, 30 min., Color
How does a 17 year old mother and leader of a girl gang survive in a region where violence and abuse has become the norm? In DAUGHTERS OF WAR, Peruvia...

The Day I Will Never Forget
A film by Kim Longinotto, 2002, 92 min., Color
THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET is a gripping feature documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto (Divorce Iranian Style and Runaway) that examines ...

Desire
A film by Julie Gustafson and Teenage Girls' Documentary Project, 2005, 85 min., Color
Nearly a decade in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the challenges and desires of a group of young women in New Orleans by letting ...

Don't Ask Why
A film by Sabiha Sumar, 1999, 58 min., Color
Anousheh lives with her strict Muslim parents and two brothers in Karachi, Pakistan. At 17, she is at an age where daughters are usually married off. ...

The Education of Shelby Knox
A film by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt, 2005, 74 min., Color
Winner of the Sundance Best Cinematography Award and the SXSW Audience Award, WMM is pleased to be finally releasing this fascinating and powerful doc...

Escuela
A documentary by Hannah Weyer, 2002, 53 min., Color
There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. ESCUEL...

The F-Word
A film by Marcia Jarmel and Erin Gallagher, 1994, 10 min., Color
THE F-WORD is a provocative look at the power of the word 'feminism' in the US. Why does it mean so many different things to different people? Pithy...

Far From Home
A film by Rachel Tsutsumi, 2005, 40 min., Color
While busing may be a rapidly fading memory in most American schools, it continues to be a reality for more than 3,000 Boston students every year. FAR...

Girl Wrestler
A film by Diane Zander, 2004, 53 min., Color
GIRL WRESTLER follows 13-year-old Tara Neal, a Texas teenager who upsets traditional expectations by insisting that girls and boys should be able to w...

Girls Around the World
Directed by Maria Barea, Kaija Jurikkala, Monique Mbeka Phoba, Pascale Schmidt, Sabiha Sumar and Yingli Ma, 1999, 222 min., 6 in series, Color
Produced by Brenda Parkerson, GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD is a collection of six extraordinary documentaries that examine the hopes, dreams and worldviews ...

Girls Like Us
A film by Jane C. Wagner and Tina DiFeliciantonio, 1997, 57 min., Color
An ethnically diverse group of four working class girls strut, flirt, and testify in this vibrant, affecting portrait of teenage girls' experiences of...

Girls Still Dream
A film by Ateyyat El Abnoudy, 1995, 24 min., Color
In this engrossing new documentary, award-winning filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy realistically portrays the challenges facing girls in a country where o...

Grrlyshow
A film by Kara Herold, 2000, 18 min., Color
An 18 minute explosion of fringe feminism and print media, The GRRLYSHOW is a powerful and rebellious message from new voices often left unheard. Fil...

Hair Piece
A film by Ayoka Chenzira, 1985, 10 min., Color
An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in t...

Highway Courtesans
A film by Mystelle Brabbee, 2005, 71 min., Color/BW
This provocative coming-of-age film chronicles the story of a bold young woman born into the Bachara community in Central India – the last hold-out of...

I Was a Teenage Feminist
A film by Therese Shechter, 2005, 62 min., Color
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Sh...

It Starts With a Whisper
A film by Shelly Niro and Anna Gronau, 1993, 28 min., Color
IT STARTS WITH A WHISPER follows a young woman who has grown up on a Reserve and her decision about which path to follow in life. Guided by her ances...

Jenny and Jenny
A film by Michal Aviad, 1997, 60 min., Color
This moving, closely observed portrait of adolescence documents one summer in the lives of two 17 year old cousins named Jenny. As North African Jewi...

Kinaalda
A film by Lena Carr, 2000, 56 min., Color
The Kinaalda ceremony is an intricate four-day event performed to guide a young girls’ ascent to womanhood. In this unique documentary, Navajo filmma...

La Boda
A film by Hannah Weyer, 2000, 53 min., Color
In an intimate portrait of migrant life along the U.S.-Mexican border, Hannah Weyer’s new film LA BODA delves into the challenges faced by a community...

Mai's America
A film by Marlo Poras, 2002, 72 min., Color
MAI'S AMERICA is a personal journey that defies all expectations. Mai, a smart, vivacious, and resilient Vietnamese teenager, travels to America for h...

The Match That Started My Fire
A film by Cathy Cook, 1991, 19 min., Color
The telephone rings and the girl-talk begins: secrets emerge and confessions build. An exciting experimental comedy in which the joy of sexual pleasur...

A Minor Altercation
A film by Jackie Shearer, 1977, 30 min.
A fight between an African American and a white schoolgirl in Boston is explored in all its complexity in this fact-based drama from one of the produc...

Mirror Mirror
A film by Jan Krawitz, 1990, 17 min., Color
MIRROR MIRROR provocatively explores the relationship between a woman's body image and the quest for an idealized female form. 13 women, of varying ag...

Mohawk Girls
A film by Tracey Deer, 2005, 53 min., Color
In MOHAWK GIRLS, filmmaker Tracey Deer intimately captures the lives of three exuberant and insightful Mohawk teenagers as they face their future. Lik...

Monday’s Girls
A film by Ngozi Onwurah, 1993, 50 min., Color
This fascinating documentary, by the filmmaker of THE BODY BEAUTIFUL, follows two young Nigerian women’s different experiences of a traditional rite o...

Mother of the River
A film by Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1995, 28 min., BW
In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River. Through their friendsh...

Night Girl
A film by Yingli Ma, 2001, 45 min., 6 in series, Color
From the series GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD, NIGHT GIRL presents the poignant story of Han Lin, a 17-year old prematurely made to enter into the workforce ...

On Becoming a Woman
Directed by Cheryl Chisholm, 1987, 90 min., Color
This extraordinary documentary provides rare insights into some important health issues for African American women. Although it was produced before A...

Out of Phoenix Bridge
A film by Li Hong, 1997, 110 min., Color
This groundbreaking work from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the cou...

Perfect Image?
A film by Maureen Blackwood, 1988, 30 min., Color
Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women's own ideas of se...

Pride of Place
A film by Dorthea Gazidis and Kim Longinotto, 1976, 60 min., BW
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Fil...

Real Indian
A film by Malinda Maynor, 1996, 7.5 min., Color
"Real Indian" is a lighthearted, very personal look at the meaning of cultural identity. As a Lumbee Indian, the filmmaker is constantly confronted w...

The Righteous Babes
A film by Pratibha Parmar, 1998, 50 min., Color
In this accomplished documentary, acclaimed filmmaker Pratibha Parmar (A PLACE OF RAGE, WARRIOR MARKS) explores the intersection of feminism with popu...

Runaway
A film by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, 2001, 87 min., Color
RUNAWAY is a powerful and heart-breaking documentary about a group of young runaway girls who are taken to a women's shelter in Tehran-Iran. The film ...

Searching for Go-Hyang
A film by Tammy Tolle, 1998, 32 min., Color
A moving personal documentary, SEARCHING FOR GO-HYANG traces the return of twin sisters to their native Korea after a fourteen year absence. Sent awa...

Shouting Silent
A film by Renee Rosen and Xoliswa Sithole, 2002, 50 min., Color
SHOUTING SILENT explores the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic through the eyes of Xoliswa Sithole, an adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS in 1...

Stephanie
A film by Peggy Stern, 1986, 58 min., Color/BW
Following the filmmaker's teenage neighbor through six pivotal years of her life, Stephanie documents her dreams and disappointments through adolescen...

Summer of the Serpent
A film by Kimi Takesue, 2004, 27 min., Color
This beautiful short drama exquisitely explores the unlikely bond that develops between two people from different worlds. Eight-year old Juliette sits...

Terra Nullius
A film by Anne Pratten, 1992, 21 min., Color/BW
TERRA NULLIUS evolved as part of a response by a generation of Australian Aborigines to the government’s assimilationist policies which removed childr...

These Girls
A film by Tahani Rached, 2006, 68 min., Color
Screened to audiences at the Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals, this fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from widely...

Through the Skin
A film by Elyse Montague, 2002, 18 min., Color/BW
In this highly personal experimental autobiography, emerging filmmaker Elyse Montague presents a daring meditation on the experience and trauma of gro...

Tomboys!
A film by Julie Akeret and Christian McEwen, 2004, 28 min., Color
Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...

Tree Shade
A film by Lisa Collins, 1998, 29 min., Color/BW
Shame and embarrassment propel Savannah, a gifted high school student, to embark on a journey through space and time to witness the prison convictions...

Troop 1500
A film by Ellen Spiro & Karen Bernstein, 2005, 68 min., Color
Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers and drug dealers, but the girls of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers and marine biologis...

24 Girls
A film by Eva Ilona Brzeski, 1998, 29 min., Color
Set on the borderland between childhood and adolescence, between dream and reality, Eva Ilona Brzeski’s 24 GIRLS presents fleeting glimpses of girls o...

Uphill All the Way
A film by Khin May Lwin and Robert Nassau, 2000, 80 min., Color
UPHILL ALL THE WAY is the astounding true story of five troubled teenage girls who face the challenge of their lives: a 2,500-mile bicycle journey al...

New Directions: Women of Zimbabwe
A film by Joanne Burke, 1997, 145 min., 5 in series, Color
From award-winning documentarian Joanne Burke's series about women's empowerment in developing countries, WOMEN OF ZIMBABWE focuses on a group of fiv...

Your Children Come Back to You
A film by Alile Sharon Larkin, 1979, 27 min., BW
Alile Sharon Larkin's first film is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a "mother country" by m...

Your Name in Cellulite
A film by Gail Noonan, 1995, 6 min., Color
A wickedly funny satire about the disparity between a woman's natural beauty and the ideal promoted by the mega-billion dollar advertising industry, t...

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