2014 NEW RELEASES

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Kings Point Now I Am A Girl A film by Sari Gilman Available! A film by Rebecca Barry

US, 2012, 30 minutes Australia, 2013, 88 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Sale: $295 Subtitled (Khymer, Rental: $90 French, Ewondo, Farsi, Order No. L141123 Tok Pisin) Sale: $395 Rental: $150 Order No. L141116

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“It’s a magnificent film…. During the 1970s and 80s, thousands of New “I AM A GIRL offers their There is a group of people in the world today the wake-up call we all York’s primarily Jewish senior citizens migrated stories of strength, hope, who are more persecuted than anyone else, but need to understand the courage, resilience, and a to Kings Point, a retirement community in Florida. they are not political or religious activists. They mindsets of our parents refusal to be second best.” and grandparents as they Lured by blue skies, sunshine and the promise of Sarasota Film Festival are girls. Being born a girl means you are more contemplate the final richer social lives, they bought paradise for a likely to be subjected to violence, disease, stages of their lives.” mere $1,500 down payment. 2013 Academy “This is an affecting and poverty and disadvantage than any other group The Huffington Post Award® nominee for Best Documentary (Short effective film documenting on Earth. the discrimination that is Subject), KINGS POINT tracks the stories of five HHHH! “This still faced by girls all over In I AM A GIRL, we meet 14-year-old Kimsey from heartbreaking residents of this typical retirement complex who the world, and the strength Cambodia, forced to sell her virginity at 12; Aziza documentary astonishes arrived decades ago with their health intact and of women to endure and from Afghanistan, who will be shot if she goes to with its language…”’ spouses by their sides. Now that they and their overcome it.” Chicago Tribune Silver Screen Queen school; Breani, a teen living in a ghetto of NYC community, comprised primarily of widowed and dreaming of stardom; Katie from Australia, women, face advanced age and mortality, “Poignant, funny and dark, “Deeply inspirational and who is recovering from a suicide attempt; Habiba KINGS POINT is an paradise demands a higher price. Through candid succinctly moving.” from Cameroon, betrothed to a man 20 years her empathetic portrait of the interviews the film exposes the dynamic interplay Simon Foster senior; and Manu from Papua New Guinea, last act of the American of their desire for independence, need for SBS Film dream.” about to become a mother at 14 following her community, and ambivalence toward growing Irvine Film Festival first sexual encounter. As they come of age in the old. Filmmaker and Emmy® nominee Sari way their culture dictates, we see remarkable Gilman deftly balances seriousness with humor, heart-warming stories of resilience, bravery and providing a bittersweet look at love, loss and humor. self-preservation as well as a deeply empathetic portrait of aging in America and the American Nominated for four Australian Academy Awards Dream’s last act. including Best Documentary and Best Director, I AM A GIRL is an inspirational feature length n AFI Silverdocs, Sterling Short Award n Cincinnati Film Festival, Best Documentary Short documentary that paints a clear picture of the n Hamptons Int’l Film Festival reality of what it means to be a girl in the 21st n Woodstock Film Festival century. n Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival n San Francisco Jewish Film Festival n Australian Academy of Cinema and n Florida Film Festival Television Arts Awards: n Fort Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival Nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary n Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Best Direction in a Documentary n DocAviv Int’l Film Festival Best Cinematography in a Documentary Best Editing in a Documentary n Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival n Sarasota Film Festival

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Feminist: Reflections Unheard: Stories From Women’s Liberation Black Women in Civil Rights A film by Jennifer Lee A film by Nevline Nnaji

US, 2013, 64 minutes US, 2013, 81 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Sale: $350 Sale: $350 Rental: $125 Rental: $125 Order No. L141137 Order No. L141131

“FEMINIST STORIES is Structured as a personal journey of rediscovery “Nnaji’s film is a compelling Where do black women activists fit into the poignant, funny, very by filmmaker Jennifer Lee, this documentary and timely portrayal of the epochal struggles for equality and liberation powerful, and discrimination that black brings the momentous first decade of second- during the 1960s and 70s? This feature-length unapologetic… feminists endured during The film is a must-see.” wave feminism vividly to life. Its trajectory starts the American civil rights documentary unearths the story of black Charles Clymer with the earliest stirrings in 1963 and ends with struggle…” women’s political marginalization—between the The Huffington Post the movement’s full blossoming in 1970—from Feminist Perspektiv male-dominated Black Power movement and the Presidential Commission’s report on second wave feminism, which was largely white “Lee’s film makes a huge “As many young Black leap in uncovering our widespread discrimination against women and women begin to explore and middle class—showing how each failed to buried history as women, a publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique feminist works by noted recognize black women’s overlapping racial and gift to girls and women and up through radical feminists’ takeover of the women of color, this film is gender identities. boys and men alike.” Statue of Liberty and Friedan’s calls for a a valuable and important Melanie Klein, narrative that’s been added Archival footage and in-depth interviews with women’s strike for equality. A wealth of period Professor, Sociology to the discourse.” former members of the Student Nonviolent and Women’s Studies, footage captures landmark events and the pivotal Tiff Jones Coordinating Committee (SNCC), SNCC’s Black Santa Monica College roles of the National Organization for Women Coffee Rhetoric Women’s Liberation Committee, the Black Panther (NOW), the Equal Employment Opportunities Party, Third World Women’s Alliance, and the “Remembering and Commission (EEOC), the Student Nonviolent “The ways in which it studying the women who touches upon the National Black Women’s Feminist Organization Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Redstockings, broke the barriers before experiences of black reveal how black women mobilized, fought for us is not just the right thing and other organizations. Thirty-five diverse women in relation to the recognition, and raised awareness of how sexism to do; we ignore their interviewees, including rank-and-file activists masculinist Black Power and class issues affected women of color within hard-won lessons at our along with well-known feminists Betty Friedan, movement as well as the own peril. For American emerging white and outside The Black Power Movement and Florence Beale, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, women, our careless middle-class feminist mainstream feminism. Prominently featured amnesia is plain poison Ti-Grace Atkinson, and others, share memories of movement, are brilliant activists include Frances Beale, Angela Davis, and Lee’s film is a healthy the period as well as issues and challenges that and incisive.” Kola Boof, Nikki Giovanni, Rosemari Mealy, Judy portion of the antidote.” still resonate today. A great introduction to Elaine Castill The Huffington Post Author Richardson, Gwendolyn Simmons, Deborah Women’s Studies and critical viewing for Singletary, and Eugenia Wiltshire. Required historians and academics interested in feminism, viewing for Women’s Studies, African American activism and the Women’s Movement. Studies, and students of the Civil Rights n Los Angeles Women’s Int’l Film Festival, Best of Fest for Movement. Documentary n New York African Diaspora Film Festival n London Feminist Film Festival n Pan African Film Festival n CinemAfrica Film Festival n Black Int’l Cinema Berlin

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Living Thinkers: An Autobiography Esther Broner: of Black Women in the Ivory Tower A Weave of Women A film by Roxana Walker-Canton A film by Lilly Rivlin

US, 2013, 75 minutes US, 2013, 62 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Sale: $350 Sale: $350 Rental: $125 Rental: $125 Order No. L141143 Order No. L141128

“These thoughtful and LIVING THINKERS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF “A film by a remarkable Prolific writer, passionate activist, dedicated nuanced studies should be BLACK WOMEN IN THE IVORY TOWER examines woman about another scholar and pioneering feminist, Esther Broner mandatory viewing for remarkable woman… the intersection of race, class and gender for infused second wave feminism with a distinctive every department chair and This is a film for Jewish administrator in academia. Black women professors and administrators Studies, for Documentary Jewish voice. In the mid-1970s, as the women’s There is so much to learn, working in U.S. colleges and universities today. Studies, for Gender Studies, movement was vastly changing views on gender and we have so far to go.” Through their diverse narratives, from girlhood to and for those who simply and equality, Broner created a radical new Leo Garofalo, the present, Black women from different want to know more about Haggadah (the text for the Passover service Associate Prof., History, and a transformational group Dir., Ctr for Comparative disciplines share experiences that have shaped of women.” seder) that preserved but reimagined Jewish Study of Race and Ethnicity, them, including segregated schooling as children, Alex Keller, rituals and culture by shifting the focus onto Connecticut College and the trials, disappointments and triumphs Director, Film Studies women. Transforming the male-centered service encountered in Academia. Though more than Program, Smith College into a powerful reclamation of women’s lives and “LIVING THINKERS reveals 100 years have passed since the doors to higher stories, it became, under Broner’s leadership, the the trials, the “What a deeply fascinating disappointments and the education opened for Black women, their and heartfelt portrait of basis for a Jewish feminist tradition that triumphs of becoming numbers as faculty members are woefully low Esther. It’s an important continues today. Black women professors and for many still, the image of Black women documentation that in the U.S.” brilliantly captured a This inspiring documentary by acclaimed as intellectuals is incomprehensible. And Empower Magazine complex multi-layered filmmaker Lilly Rivlin revisits Broner’s richly while overtly expressed racism, sexism and woman who dared engaged political, artistic and spiritual life discrimination have declined, their presence is challenging the norms of through archival photos, video footage spanning often still unacknowledged. Through frank and her time.” several decades, and interviews with family and sometimes humorous conversations, this Ariel Jordan filmmaker/writer friends, including Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, documentary interrogates notions of education Grace Paley, and other famous feminists. for girls and women and the stereotypes and “Rivlin’s tribute to Esther Drawing its title from one of Broner’s celebrated traditions that affect the status of Black women Broner’s life reminds us of novels, the film helps explore the intersection of both in and out of the Academy. A perfect the energy and passion with which the first feminism and religion, and helps answer the companion film for any classroom discussion generation of American question, is there room for feminism and on the intersection of racism, sexism and/or Jewish feminists engaged religious tradition in a traditionally male feminism. with Jewish ritual, liturgy, and traditions.” dominated space? n BlackStar Film Festival, Audience Choice Award for Lori Lefkovitz, n San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Documentary Director, Jewish Studies n Seattle Jewish Film Festival n Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival Program and the Humanities n n Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival Center, Northeastern Atlanta Jewish Film Festival University n Boston Jewish Film Festival n Haifa Jewish Film Festival n Toronto Jewish Film Festival

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The Motherhood Archives LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 A film by Irene Lusztig A film by Julianna Brannum

US, 2013, 91 minutes US, 2014, 63 minutes Color/BW, DVD Color, DVD Sale: $395 Sale: $350 Rental: $150 Rental: $125 Order No. L141124 Order No. L141142

“Irene Lusztig’s fearless and Archival montage, science fiction and an “LADONNA HARRIS: LADONNA HARRIS: INDIAN 101 from Comanche riveting investigation into homage to 1970s feminist filmmaking are woven INDIAN 101…explore(s) filmmaker Julianna Brannum, chronicles the life motherhood and the unfree Harris’ achievements, the together to form this haunting and lyrical essay of Comanche activist and national civil rights maternal body shows how personal struggles that led a skilled filmmaker can film excavating hidden histories of childbirth her to become a voice for leader LaDonna Harris and the role that she has wring both eloquence and in the twentieth century. After several years of Native people, and her played in Native and mainstream America history entertainment from buying films online and working in historical contemporary work to since the 1960s. In this new verite style archival material.” archives, award-winning filmmaker Irene Lusztig reshape Indian Country in documentary, Brannum, the great niece of Harris, Rick Prelinger, America and abroad.” archivist and founder, amassed an unusual and fascinating collection of DeadCenter Film Festival, celebrates her life and the personal struggles that Prelinger Archives & found footage aimed at teaching women Oklahoma led her to become a voice for Native people and Prelinger Library how to be pregnant, give birth, and look after her contemporary work to strengthen and rebuild babies, along with training films for obstetricians “Comanche activist indigenous communities and train emerging “A must-see film for LaDonna Harris…led an and health care professionals, and a handful of Native leaders around the world. feminists teaching or extensive life of Native thinking about motherhood home movies. political and social Harris’s activism began in Oklahoma, fighting today, as well as its activism, and is now representational legacy, Assembling her extraordinary trove from over passing on her traditional segregation and assisting grassroots Native and THE MOTHERHOOD 100 different sources, including newly cultural and leadership women’s groups. In Washington LaDonna ARCHIVES makes critical rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth values to a new generation introduced landmark programs and legislation inroads into subjects that material tracing the evolution of Lamaze, THE of emerging Indigenous returning territory to tribes, improving education feminism (or women) have leaders.” always, somehow looked MOTHERHOOD ARCHIVES inventively untangles Austin Film Society and healthcare for Native Americans, ending job past...” the complex, sometimes surprising genealogies discrimination against women, and targeting Alexandra Juhasz, of maternal education. This extraordinary other pressing issues of the time. For over three Professor, Media Studies, achievement illuminates our changing narratives decades, “Indian 101,” her course for legislators, Pitzer College of maternal success and failure while raising combatted ignorance about America’s most “The visually stunning important questions about our social and marginalized population. Using interviews, footage curated from a historical constructions of motherhood. archival footage and photographs, this film justly century’s worth of birthing celebrates one of the most important women movements will inspire n Women Media Arts & Film Festival, Best Feature Film leaders in Native American and U.S. history. impassioned discussion n Santa Cruz Film Festival and debates about the n London and Porto Underground Film Festival changing political and n Antimatter Media Arts Festival social economy of motherhood. An excellent teaching tool.” Kristen Ghodsee, Professsor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Bowdoin College

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Las Marthas Maestra A film by Cristina Ibarra A film by Catherine Murphy

US, 2013, 69 & 52 minutes US, 2013, 33 minutes Color, DVD Color/BW, DVD Subtitled (Spanish) Subtitled (Spanish) Sale: $395 Sale: $295 Rental: $150 Rental: $90 Order No. L141127 Order No. L141121

“A fascinating look at a Unlike any other, the annual debutante ball in “This film brought tears to In 1961, more than 250,000 Cubans joined their world barely known Laredo, Texas is part of a lucrative month-long my eyes. It is beautiful.” country’s National Literacy Campaign and taught outside of Texas...” Alice Walker, festival honoring George Washington’s birthday. more than 707,000 other Cubans to read and Laredo Sun Writer, Pulitzer Prize Winner LAS MARTHAS follows two young women as write. Almost half of these volunteer teachers “(A) skillful and mindful they prepare for this elaborate rite of passage: “Catherine Murphy has were under 18. More than half were women. exploration of the Laurita, a 13th-generation debutante descended created a project with rare Narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice complexities to find a from Laredo’s original Spanish land grantees and intimate access....Her fascinating coming of age film will preserve the oral Walker, MAESTRA (Spanish for teacher) explores who questions debutante society’s class system story culturally steeped in histories of a generation the experiences of nine of the women who, as history. Ibarra has geared toward girls like herself; and Rosario, a that will soon be gone. The young girls, helped eradicate Cuban illiteracy intuitively seized on and high-achieving, Mexican-raised and U.S.-schooled historical significance of within one year. Interweaving recent interviews, explored this unique outsider struggling to understand the elite this archive -and its legacy, which clearly lessons for the archival footage, and campaign photos, this lively society’s unspoken rules. demonstrates the vibrant present- cannot be documentary includes one of the first Cubans of bi-culture of Texas.” overstated.” Tracing the event’s origins back to 1898, the film her generation to call herself a feminist and one Indiewire Howard Zinn works to unravel why a town like Laredo – with a Author of the first openly proud members of ’s “Offers a striking population that is 98% Mexican – feels such LGBT community. With wit and spirit, all recall alternative portrait of affinity for America’s Founding Father. Despite “MAESTRA is a compelling negotiating for autonomy and independence in a border-town life.” history and all odds, the celebration perseveres and beautifully filmed culture still bound by patriarchal structures. The New York Times reconstruction of one of and flourishes thanks to the Mexican American the most significant Eight years in the making, MAESTRA highlights girls who wear this gilded tradition in the form of campaigns in Cuban the will and courage that made the monumental elaborate colonial gowns. LAS MARTHAS is a history.” endeavor possible and the pivotal role of beautifully drawn and sometimes humorous, NACLA Report on the Americas women’s and youth empowerment in building a coming of age portrait of these two young new society. women as they navigate this complex tradition in

a time of economic uncertainty and political n Black Maria Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award tension over immigration and border relations n Indie Fest, Best Woman Filmmaker Award between the U.S. and . n Ojai Film Festival, Honorable Mention n Sarasota Film Festival n Ambulante California n Los Angeles Latino Int’l Film Festival n San Diego Latino Film Festival n San Francisco Latino Film Festival n CineFestival San Antonio n Bahamas Int’l Festival n African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival n New Orleans African Film & Arts Festival n San Francisco Documentary Festival n Vermont Int’l Film Festival n Raindance Film Festival, London n Traverse City Film Festival n Pan African Film Festival n Louisville Int’l Film Festival

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The Supreme Price Sound of Torture A film by Joanna Lipper A film by Keren Shayo

US/Nigeria, 2014, 75 minutes Israel, 2013, 58 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Sale: $395 Subtitled (Hebrew, Tigrinya, Arabic) Rental: $150 Sale: $350 Order No: L141146 Rental: $125 Order No. L141132

“An unprecedented and Director Joanna Lipper elegantly explores past “A harrowing yet inspiring Since 2006 when Europe closed its borders, personal look at the Abiola and present as she tells the remarkable story of documentary that reveals human trafficking has burgeoned in Egypt’s Sinai story. Director Joanna the importance of Hafsat Abiola, daughter of human rights heroine Desert, where Eritrean asylum seekers and Lipper elegantly dovetails independent media in the past and present as she Kudirat Abiola, and Nigeria’s President-elect struggle against human refugees heading north to Israel are kidnapped, tells this story through the M.K.O. Abiola, who won a historic vote in 1993 rights abuses.” held hostage, and tortured by Bedouin smugglers eyes of Hafsat Abiola, who that promised to end years of military Int’l Film Festival and Forum demanding exorbitant ransoms for their freedom. is at the forefront of a dictatorship. Shortly after the election M.K.O. on Human Rights, Geneva Fleeing an oppressive military dictatorship at progressive movement to empower women and Abiola’s victory was annulled and he was “The film presents home, with a “shoot-to-kill” policy at the border dismantle the patriarchal arrested. While he was imprisoned, his wife harrowing testimony about and where only pregnant women are exempted structure of Nigerian Kudirat took over leadership of the pro- the current situation of from service, over 300,000 Eritreans have fled society. “ democracy movement, organizing strikes and African refugees, a story their homeland in North Africa. Many of these Full Frame Film Festival the media so far has rallies, winning international attention for the men, women and children die in Sinai’s torture neglected to tell.” “A startlingly intimate Nigerian struggle against human rights violations One World Int’l Human camps. rendering of the epic and perpetrated by the military dictatorship. Because Rights Festival, Prague This powerful documentary intimately follows tragic intergenerational of this work, she too became a target and was Abiola family saga, THE Swedish-Eritrean journalist Meron Estefanos and assassinated in 1996. SUPREME PRICE provides her efforts to aid the hostages and their families. an unprecedented look In this riveting political thriller, the Abiola family’s From Stockholm she runs a popular online radio inside of Africa’s most populous nation, exposing intimate story unfolds against the epic backdrop show, fielding calls for help from Eritrean victims a deep history of political of Nigeria’s evolution from independence in and their relatives. Her activism takes her to corruption…” 1960—through the Biafra War, subsequent Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Desert to seek the release Independent Film Festival, military dictatorships and the tumultuous of a badly abused young woman held captive Boston transition to civilian rule—through present day as with her baby and to search for another who Hafsat continues to face the challenge of disappeared along the Egyptian-Israeli border transforming a corrupt culture of governance into after her ransom had been paid. Both eloquent a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most and harrowing, SOUND OF TORTURE spotlights marginalized population: women. one of today’s most underreported human rights violations and the one woman who is making it n Full Frame Documentary Film Festival her mission to create change. n Human Rights Watch Film Festival n Nantucket Film Festival n Film Festival and Int’l Forum on Human Rights Geneva, n Independent Film Festival Boston Special Mention Award n Aspen Ideas Festival n Int’l Documentary Festival, Amsterdam n Movies that Matter Film Festival n One World Prague n DocAviv Film Festival n Goteborg Int’l Film Festival

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Casablanca Calling Six Days: Three Activists, A film by Rosa Rogers / Produced by Hilary Durman Three Wars, One Dream A film by Nikolina Gillgren / Produced by Johan Sandstrom

UK, 2014, 70 minutes Sweden, 2013, 56 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Subtitled (Arabic) Subtitled (Abkhaz, Sorani Sale: $395 Kurdish, Mengrelian) Rental: $150 Sale: $350 Order No. L141133 Rental: $125 Order No. L141134

“A deeply meaningful and As political conflict and change sweep the Arab “A universal story This inspiring documentary which follows three important film about a new, world, CASABLANCA CALLING highlights a quiet of women’s courage brave human rights defenders in Liberia, enlightened generation of and survival in the social revolution under way in Morocco, where Abkhazia, Georgia and Iraq over six days, gives Muslim women leaders aftermath of war.” who will undoubtedly 60% of the women have never attended school. Int’l Documentary Film insight into the everyday struggle to improve the change the future of For the first time, Moroccan women are trained Festival, Amsterdam situation of women worldwide. SIX DAYS shines women in Morocco.” and employed as official Muslim leaders or a necessary light on some of the most urgent Caroline Libresco morchidat. Charged with teaching an Islam based “(A) political tool that can and important human rights issues facing Sundance Film Festival be used for advocacy…to on tolerance, compassion and equality, they improve the situation for women today: girls education, honor killings, “A most engaging, provide vital support and guidance to women’s rights defenders.” bride kidnappings and women’s health issues. informative and hopeful communities, especially to girls and women. London Feminist film.” Film Festival Giving refuge and voice to women beaten, Sarah Masters At the film’s heart are Hannane, Bouchra and burned and threatened with death by their Hartley Film Foundation Karima, three morchidat assigned to mosques in families, journalist Lanja, fearlessly challenges different parts of Morocco. CASABLANCA honor killings and domestic violence in Iraq’s CALLING follows them for a year on rounds to Kurdish region. Nelly runs a cooperative and schools and other sites to provide advice on shelter in Monrovia, Liberia’s slums so that marriage and employment; champion education impoverished women can learn to read and earn for girls and women; caution against early money for their families. And in the breakaway marriage; and help resolve personal problems. republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Maia, director of a Offering unique access to a story we rarely see, women’s health group fighting for women’s this illuminating documentary demonstrates how sexual rights, brings medical care to women and women’s empowerment through moderate Islam girls in remote Caucasus villages while battling is transforming a nation. “bride kidnappings” and other archaic customs that lead to forced marriage. n DOXA Vancouver, Premiere As it follows these three remarkable women, thousands of miles apart, SIX DAYS bears witness to their unwavering, shared commitment to women’s education, empowerment and dreams of a better life. An important film for those who wish to understand the challenges facing women in developing countries around the world and how feminism continues to help improve womens’ lives.

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Light Fly, Fly High My Stolen Revolution A film by Susann Østigaard and Beathe Hofseth A film by Nahid Persson Sarvestani

Norway, 2013, 80 minutes Sweden/US/Norway/UK, 2013 Color, DVD 75 minutes, Color, DVD Subtitled (Tamil) Subtitled (Farsi, Swedish) Sale: $395 Sale: $395 Rental: $150 Rental: $150 Order No. L141129 Order No. L141120

“Directors Beathe Hofseth Thulasi, a young Indian woman in her twenties, is “A deeply moving, intensely A student activist in Iran’s 1979 revolution that and Susann Østigaard literally willing to box her way out of poverty and personal narrative that overthrew the dictatorial Shah, Nahid Persson portray Thulasi’s struggles unfolds as [Sarvestani] into a better life. A Dalit or “untouchable” born Sarvestani fled to Sweden with her baby after inside and outside reunites with an the ring with a serene outside of caste, she rejected her place on astonishingly open and Islamists seized power and began persecuting visual precision charged society’s lowest rung at an early age and was eloquent group of women.” leftists who had been their revolutionary with sparks of humor forced to leave her parents’ home when only 14. The Examiner allies. Three decades later, events in Iran inspire and moments of despair Ten years later, despite her impressive record in Nahid to revisit that part of her life. Prompted that are beautifully “Heartbreaking content reflective of Thulasi’s the ring, ranking 3rd in India’s Light Fly category, triumphs in the highly by brutal crackdowns on anti-government personality and plight.” Thulasi remains stuck at the bottom, deprived of emotional and personal protests in 2009 and long-suppressed guilt for Full Frame Film Festival opportunities she rightly deserves. documentary MY STOLEN abandoning a younger brother to imprisonment REVOLUTION.” and death, the internationally acclaimed “Revelatory, unpredictable, Despite an uphill battle against sexual Variety filmmaker locates and reunites with five female and highly engaging. With harassment, poverty and the pressure to marry, excellent narrative control activists who survived torture and terror in the Thulasi refuses to compromise herself and her “The amazing courage throughout, a well-chosen these women exhibit today Islamist regime’s jails. Now living in exile, goals and takes her destiny into her own hands. and deserving character in their remembrances are the women share gripping accounts of how their was intimately and Filmed during three eventful years, LIGHT FLY, testaments to the strength jailers tried to break them physically and beautifully observed. This FLY HIGH is a beautifully shot, gripping and of the human spirit. It also spiritually, and describe what sustained them was a difficult subject and inspirational story of a courageous young serves as a reminder to the the documentary a similarities of the political during these horrible ordeals. With the support of woman who refuses to be anyone’s microcosm for women’s injustices that still occur in these stalwart survivors, Sarvestani finds victim and ends up a hero of her own making issues that badly need today’s Iran.” answers to haunting questions about her highlighting.” against all odds. Lori Huck, brother’s last days. Shifting skillfully between Documentary Award Jury, Producer, Yahoo Voices Film One World Media n One World Media Awards, Best Documentary Review Contributor past and present, this deeply personal n Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, documentary is an essential resource for Oxfam Global Justice Award understanding Iran today. n Full Frame Documentary Film Festival n Sarasota Film Festival n Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam, Audience Choice Award n Zagreb Dox Documentary Film Festival n Noor Iranian Film Festival, Best Documentary Director n Göteborg Film Festival n Tempo Doc Festival Stockholm, Documentary Award n Tempo Film Festival Sweden n Los Angeles Film Festival n Tromso Int’l Film Festival n Vancouver Int’l Film Festival n Abu Dhabi Film Festival n Thessaloniki Doc Festival n Dok Leipzig n Int’l Film Festival Gothenburg n Warsaw Film Festival n It’s All True Film Festival n Beijing Independent Film Festival n Nordisk Panorama n Jeonju Int’l Film Festival n Festival dei Popoli

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Kismet Mulberry Child A film by Nina Maria Paschalidou A film by Susan Morgan Cooper

Cyprus/Greece, 2013, 57 minutes US, 2011, 85 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Subtitled (Arabic, Turkish, Subtitled (Chinese) Greek, Bulgarian) Sale: $395 Sale: $350 Rental: $150 Rental: $125 Order No. L141130 Order No. L141126

“An inspirational film…” Wildly popular at home, Turkish soap operas HHH “A powerful and Winner of the Spirit of Freedom Documentary Al Jazeera have taken the world by storm with more than touching film.” category at the Bahamas International Film 300 million viewers in 80 countries across the Roger Ebert Festival, MULBERRY CHILD is an adaptation to “A culturally and Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, and Asia. Jian Ping’s book, politically meaningful “MULBERRY CHILD teaches Mulberry Child: A Memoir of source of inspiration to a With unprecedented access, KISMET delves into us the human capacity for China. Ping’s memoir tells the tale of her significant number of this phenomenon, weaving together excerpts courage and endurance, experiences growing up in China during the women, for whom such from the major shows including interviews with and how the events of the Cultural Revolution. Written to bridge a growing ongoing episodic past can haunt our future.” their talent and the writers, producers and emotional and cultural disconnect between Jian narratives represent a Heartland Film Festival progressive and directors behind the scenes—primarily made up and her thoroughly Americanized daughter Lisa, challenging ideology… of women—and portraits of the everyday viewers “(A) moving account of her the book recounts their family’s journey of The result is encouragingly in Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, family’s struggle to survive survival, from persecution and banishment to infectious.” Bulgaria, and Greece. China’s Cultural Revolution. political rehabilitation, and its profound effects Fandor [Jian Ping] has in her on Jian. Exploring how the serials captivate, inspire and poignant memoir helped “The documentary Westerners to understand empower women, the film reveals how the soaps This moving and beautifully shot documentary, brings us personal stories this little-known period in of women who followed impact and break down negative stereotypes and China’s history…” artfully intertwines on-camera interviews with in the footsteps of traditional taboos. The soaps openly discuss rape, Rob Gifford, dramatic re-enactments, archival footage, rarely their heroines to fight for sexual and domestic violence, child and arranged former Beijing seen photos of China under Mao, and voice-over their rights, and to Correspondent of NPR ultimately break free of marriages, and honor killings while also sparking narration by Jacqueline Bissett. Book-ended by oppressed lives.“ change in gender relationships, activism against the story of Jian and Lisa’s complicated Int’l Documentary Film sexual abuse, and a wave of divorce across the relationship, their visit to China, and a joyful Festival, Amsterdam Middle East. Invaluable for studies in media and family reunion, MULBERRY CHILD addresses popular culture, KISMET discloses how universal issues between mother and daughter, profoundly Turkish soaps penetrate viewers’ triumph and adversity and the clash between social and religious realities while empowering modernity and tradition. This film offers students and helping women to transform their lives and and audiences alike a heartfelt window into and a strengthen the debate about women’s rights greater understanding of the recent history of across the region. China, the Cultural Revolution and its impact on the Chinese and Chinese American immigrants. n Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, Nominated for best Mid-Length Doc n Bahamas Int’l Film Festival, Best Documentary n One World Human Rights Int’l Film Festival n Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best of Fest n Movies that Matter, Amsterdam n Port Townsend Film Festival, Special Jury Award n Thessaloniki Documentary Festival n Santa Rosa Int’l Film Festival, Cultural Discovery Award n Int’l Women’s Film Festival Seoul n Sedona Int’l Film Festival n Sarajevo Intl Film Festival n Charleston Int’l Film Festival n Nashville Film Festival n Newport Beach Film Festival n Heartland Film Festival n Madrid Int’l Film Festival

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Surviving The Tsunami Derby Crazy Love – My Atomic Aunt A film by Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott A film by Kyoko Miyake

Germany/Japan, 2013, 52 minutes Canada, 2013, 64 minutes Color, DVD Color, DVD Subtitled (Japanese) Sale: $350 Sale: $350 Rental: $125 Rental: $125 Order No. L141145 Order No. L141115

“An insightful and Film director Kyoko Miyake remembered Namie, “DERBY CRAZY LOVE takes The latest documentary from Toronto filmmakers surprisingly funny story of a fishing village ravaged by the 2011 Fukushima us to the heart of one of the Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott takes viewers a family adjusting to life last decade’s most thrilling nuclear catastrophe, as her childhood paradise. inside the adrenaline-fueled phenomenon of after the tsunami. Through sporting phenomena.” the attempts of the warm Revisiting her family’s hometown after 10 years POV Magazine women’s roller derby. With over 1,400 leagues and indefatigable Aunt abroad, Miayke’s multilayered documentary worldwide, it is now the fastest growing women’s Kuniko to adapt at her ripe examines the disaster’s profound personal, social “The ‘DIY punk rock’ sport. age, this deeply personal and environmental impact. environment is what keeps film explores notions of roller derby true to its core DERBY CRAZY LOVE accompanies Montreal’s top homeland, nuclear power While Namie’s younger generations have of being community- team, New Skids on the Block, on its exhilarating and family love.” oriented and inclusive… permanently relocated elsewhere, Miyake’s Aunt journey to regional championships, where they BBC Storyville people who feel Kuniko, like other older residents, has clung to marginalized because of face off in a pitched battle against U.K. “Haunting and moving ….as dreams of eventually returning to her home. Over their gender identity or powerhouse, London Rollergirls, and reigning hard-hitting as it is simply the course of a year, Miyake follows this warm, sexual orientation find a world champions, New York’s Gotham Girls. New presented, MY ATOMIC safe space to play sports.” indomitable businesswoman as she recalls happy Skids players and their British and U.S. rivals AUNT is a timely reminder The Daily Xtra that the impact of the family memories and strives to adapt to life share stories of being powerful women in Fukushima disaster is still outside the contamination zone. In the process, “As gritty as any doc set in traditional sports, along with insights about being felt....” Kuniko starts questioning her unconditional trust the wide and wild world of derby’s recent rebirth, after decades of decline, as Jon Lynes in Fukushima’s plant operators and pro-nuclear sport, DERBY CRAZY LOVE a vibrant, original expression of third wave Time Out London is also as revealing as any past in a community that once hoped to house a in the genre.” feminism and Amazon-like physicality rooted in nuclear power station. Montreal Gazette punk’s colorful DIY counterculture. Deftly tackling issues of masculinity, femininity, aggression, A timely reminder of Fukushima’s continuing body image, queer identity and gender norms, meltdown, this insightful, often funny film offers this fast-paced yet reflective film captures the fresh perspectives on Japanese national identity spirit of community, inclusiveness, and and today’s most pressing global concerns sisterhood at roller derby’s core today. around nuclear energy. n Sheffield Doc/Fest n Hamburg Film Festival n RIDM Montreal Int’l Documentary Festival n Dok Leipzig n Frameline Int’l LGBT Film Festival n EIDF Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Seoul n DOXA Documentary Film Festival n Salem Film Festival n Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival n Qdocs Portland n Northside Film Festival

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® ■■ Academy & ■■ Premiered SAVING FACE ® SALMA A film by Daniel Junge and Emmy Award A film by Kim Longinotto at Sundance Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Forced into a strict Muslim marriage and Winner of two Emmy® Awards (Best kept under lock and key for 25 years, Salma Documentary & Outstanding Editing: Documentary and defied her village and became the most famous Tamil Long Form) and the Academy® Award for Best poet in South India. In SALMA, master documentarian Documentary (Short Subject), SAVING FACE is a harshly Kim Longinotto employs breathtaking, evocative verité to realistic look at the many Pakistani women victimized in create a complex portrait of this luminous artist whose punitive acid attacks, and the plastic surgeon who once captive voice has triumphantly emerged as a abandoned a successful London practice to help them powerful advocate for women’s rights and girls’ rebuild their lives. education. 40 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141087 89 minutes | Sale: $395 | Rental: $150 | Order No. L141091

■■ RED WEDDING: ■■ JASAD & THE QUEEN OF CONTRADICTIONS WOMEN UNDER THE KHMER ROUGE A film by Amanda Homsi-Ottosson A film by Lida Chan and Guillaume Suon Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad stirred controversy Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge forced over when she founded Jasad (the Body), an Arabic 250,000 Cambodian women into violent marriages. Today, language erotic quarterly. JASAD & THE QUEEN OF survivor Pen Sochan is determined to bring her abusers CONTRADICTIONS tackles the subject of sexuality to justice with the help of an international tribunal. RED in the Arab world, profiling this outspoken, passionate WEDDING demonstrates the liberating power of memory woman who shows no sign of slowing down her small through one brave woman’s attempt to pit her humanity steps towards a Middle Eastern sexual revolution. against a system designed to annihilate those like her. 40 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141089 58 minutes Sale: $350 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141101

■■ CAMERA/WOMAN ■■ FORBIDDEN VOICES: A film by Karima Zoubir HOW TO START A REVOLUTION WITH A COMPUTER Moroccan mother and recent divorcé Khadija works as a A film by Barbara Miller videographer, filming traditional Muslim weddings in Their voices are suppressed and censored, but Casablanca. CAMERA/WOMAN closely follows this renowned bloggers Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and extraordinary yet conflicted woman as she moves Farnaz Seifi are not frightened of their dictatorial between her strained family life and the hopeful, fantasy regimes. FORBIDDEN VOICES profiles these three defiant world of the parties she films, leading audiences into a women, named amongst the world’s most influential Morocco where veils are lifted and men aren’t allowed. voices by Time Magazine for risking their lives in the 59 minutes | Sale: $350 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141100 name of a political resistance fought not with bullets and bombs but with wires and words. 96 minutes | Sale: $395 | Rental: $150 | Order No. L141094

■■ ABUELAS: ■■ CHILDREN OF MEMORY Broadcast GRANDMOTHERS ON A MISSION (NIÑOS DE LA MEMORIA) on PBS A film by Noemi Weis A film by Kathryn Smith Pyle and Maria For three decades, ’s Abuelas have been Teresa Rodríguez searching for their missing grandchildren: the children of Grappling with tangled issues of identity, history and sons and daughters who disappeared during Argentina’s justice in an still reeling from Civil War, Dirty War. ABUELAS: GRANDMOTHERS ON A MISSION CHILDREN OF MEMORY (NIÑOS DE LA MEMORIA) honors these women, highlighting their perilous drive to follows the search for hundreds of disappeared children, reunite their families and their world-recognized ability many of whom survived massacres at the hands of a to fearlessly speak out against injustice. U.S.-trained Salvadorian army. 28 minutes | Sale: $275 | Rental: $75 | Order No. L141102 64 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141095

■■ BAY OF ALL SAINTS Audience ■■ MARIA IN NOBODY’S LAND A film by Annie Eastman Award SXSW A film by Marcela Zamora Chamorro In Bahia, Brazil, generations of MARIA IN NOBODY’S LAND is an unprecedented look at impoverished families live in plafitas, a vast three Salvadorian women making the illegal and network of shacks built on stilts set above a rising tide of extremely dangerous trek into the US through Mexican floating garbage. When the government threatens to territory. During their harrowing journey, these women reclaim the area, local residents stand to lose everything. navigate unimaginable obstacles including rape, BAY OF ALL SAINTS is a lyrical portrait of three single kidnapping and even death, putting a human face on the mothers struggling to raise their children while fighting immigration debate and illuminating the plight of those for the survival of their community. willing to risk everything for a chance at a better life. 74 minutes | Sale: $350 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141103 86 minutes | Sale: $350 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141090

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■■ THE GREY AREA: FEMINISM BEHIND BARS ■■ MOTHERS OF BEDFORD Broadcast A film by Noga Ashkenazi A film by Jenifer McShane on PBS Through a series of captivating class discussions In the US, 80% of today’s female inmates led by students from nearby Grinnell College, a group are mothers of school-age children. of female inmates at a maximum security Iowa prison MOTHERS OF BEDFORD follows five incarcerated women delve into eye-opening issues of race, class, sexuality as they learn to raise their sons and daughters from and gender. Closely following both the students and behind bars, dealing with all the hardships and the hope their young teachers, THE GREY AREA is an insider’s that comes from reconstructing familial bonds in these look at the transformative experience of studying difficult and strained circumstances. feminism behind bars. 96 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141109 65 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141093

■■ SERVICE: WHEN WOMEN COME Emmy® ■■ SISTERS IN ARMS MARCHING HOME A film by Marcia Winner A film by Beth Freeman Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter Canada is one of only ten countries that allow women to Women make up 15% of today’s military, fight in ground combat. SISTERS IN ARMS tells the story a number expected to double in the next decade. of three remarkable women in the most difficult and SERVICE follows mothers, daughters and sisters dangerous military professions, facing combat on returning home from active duty, traveling from war-torn the battle fronts of Afghanistan. Through video diaries deserts to alienating urban streets, from coping with and intimate interviews, these soldiers convey loss PTSD, homelessness, and sexual trauma to rebuilding and inspiration from a uniquely female perspective, civilian lives with the heartfelt support of fellow veterans. challenging perceptions and forever changing the face 55 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141097 of the front line. 48 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141111

■■ THE LULU SESSIONS ■■ A GIRL LIKE HER A film by S. Casper Wong A film by Ann Fessler THE LULU SESSIONS tells an incredibly personal story Between 1945 and 1973, over a million American about illness, loss and healing through one fiercely women were pressured into giving their babies up for independent woman’s journey from prominent cancer adoption, emblematic of a time when “nice girls” researcher to hospice patient with terminal breast didn’t get pregnant. Directed by Ann Fessler, author of cancer. Via video-diary, director S. Casper Wong records The Girls Who Went Away, A GIRL LIKE HER brings time spent with LuLu, her longtime mentor, best friend, this hidden past to light, contrasting vocal testimony and on-again-off-again lover, making life’s last journey with archival footage to deliver a haunting account of accessible in ways rarely seen before on screen. banishment, surrender and loss. 86 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141113 48 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141099

■■ VIRGIN TALES Broadcast ■■ HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY Broadcast A film by Mirjam von Arx on A film by Therese Shechter Showtime on Fusion TV One in eight girls in the U.S. today have 50 years after the sexual revolution, a vowed to remain “unsoiled” until marriage. woman’s virginity continues to define her But the seven children of the Wilson family, founders of morality and self-worth. In the hilarious, eye-opening and the Purity Ball, take this concept one step further: saving occasionally alarming HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY, their first kiss for the altar. For two years the filmmakers filmmaker Therese Shechter uses her own story to follow the Wilsons and in the process, a broader theme explore why a woman’s chastity is still so treasured in emerges: how the religious right is grooming a young our otherwise hyper-sexualized society. generation of virgins to embody an Evangelically- 66 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141114 grounded Utopia in America. 87 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141104

■■ THE MOSUO SISTERS A film by Marlo Poras, $ Produced by Marlo Poras and Yu Ying Wu Chou Buy 5 for only 495 Juma and Latso, sisters from one of China’s last remaining matriarchal societies, are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose their jobs in Beijing. Offer valid for 2012-2013 titles Left with few options, they return to their remote Himalayan village to find it irreparably marked by globalization. A tale of Listed on pages 11-13. two sisters caught in the shadow of two Chinas, THE MOSUO SISTERS follows the women as they struggle to Use Promo Code 495C14 navigate vast cultural and economic divides. 80 minutes | Sale: $350 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141105

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■■ NO JOB FOR A WOMAN Broadcast ■■ ATOMIC MOM Broadcast on A film by Michèle Midori Fillion on PBS A film by M.T. Silvia Doc Channel During World War II, women were banned This is the story of two lives and two from the frontlines, preventing female mothers, affected by the atomic bomb—that reporters from writing front page stories about battle of a scientist involved in the post-war development maneuvers. This award-winning documentary tells the and testing of the bomb and the one on whom it was colorful story of how three tenacious war correspondents- unleashed. This inspiring film, winner of awards around Martha Gelhorn, Ruth Cowan and Dickie Chappelle-forged the country, lifts the veil on a chapter of U.S. history that their now legendary reputations during the war—when not many know or do not want to remember. battlefields were considered no place for a woman. 80 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141056 Narrated by Emmy® Award winner Julianna Margulies. 61 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141052

■■ THE LEARNING Broadcast ■■ SKYDANCER Broadcast A film by Ramona Diaz on PBS A film by Katja Esson on PBS One hundred years ago, American teachers In SKYDANCER, Academy® Award- established the English-speaking public nominated director Katja Esson turns her school system of the Philippines. Now, in a striking lens on Mohawk men, who for six generations have been turnabout, American schools are recruiting Filipino leaving the reservation to erect some of the world’s most teachers. THE LEARNING is the story of four Filipina women iconic buildings. Following a tight knit group of Mohawk who reluctantly leave their families and schools to teach in skywalkers, Esson explores the tribe’s colorful and at Baltimore. Their story is intensely personal, as each woman times tragic history, presenting a nuanced portrait of deals with the implications of her decision to come to the modern Native American life set against the stunning US, and fundamentally public, as they become part of the skyline they helped create. machinery of American education reform policy. 75 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141062 98 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order# L141045

■■ RIGHTS AND WRONGS: ■■ INVOKING JUSTICE Broadcast THE STORY OF WOMEN IN ISLAM A film by Deepa Dhanraj on PBS A film by Corine Huq In Southern India, domestic disputes are Director Corine Huq returns to the roots of Islam, settled by Jamaats, all male bodies that drawing on religious experts and original texts to expose apply Islamic Sharia law to civil cases in the absence of pervasive cultural and interpretational inaccuracies women. In 2004, a group of women responded to this concerning the Qu’ran’s intended treatment of women. inequity by forming the first all-female Jamaat, a system By conveying the ways in which societies have turned that now counts 12,000 members over 12 districts, trying to Islamic sources to justify misogynistic acts, RIGHTS over 8000 cases. INVOKING JUSTICE follows these AND WRONGS cunningly debunks prominent myths Jamaats, highlighting the leaders’ dedication, about women and Islam. compassion and tenacity throughout each investigation. 135 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141073 85 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141082

■■ THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST ■■ UNDER SNOW (DIE KOREANISCHE HOCHZEITSTRUHE) (UNTER SCHNEE) A film by Ulrike Ottinger A film by Ulrike Ottinger Ulrike Ottinger’s provocative mélange of ethnography, In the Echigo region of northwestern Japan, where stunning tableaux and baroque vignettes was inspired by heavy snow blankets entire landscapes and villages for what she calls the “well-stocked miracle” of Korean more than half the year, a distinctive way of life has wedding chests, assembled according to time-honored evolved. Ulrike Ottinger’s latest film leads us into this customs. This exploration of love and marriage in South mythical country, turning her lens on daily and communal Korea looks closely at ancient and present-day rituals, life under the snowy mountains. revealing what is old in the new and new in the old. 103 minutes | Sale: $395 | Rental: $150 | Order No. L141108 82 minutes | Sale: $395 | Rental: $125 | Order No. L141107

■■ ULRIKE OTTINGER—NOMAD FROM THE LAKE (DIE NOMADEN VOM SEE) A film by Brigette Kramer DON’T FORGET! This intimate personal portrait of Ulrike Ottinger, a unique, influential voice in women’s cinema for over four Digital licensing is available for any WMM film. decades, begins at the lakeside city of Constance, where she was born and started her career. A richly rewarding close-up of the woman director who, along with For more information on pricing, Margarethe von Trotta and Helke Sander, helped launch email [email protected] New German Cinema on world screens. 86 minutes | Sale: $295 | Rental: $90 | Order No. L141096 or call 212.925.0606 ext 360

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