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By the Roots

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Madison Young, a queer gallerist and sexual revolutionary, returns to Southern Ohio to confront her past, conservative family, and emotional landmines with her partner James.

4.6

Macu, la mujer del policía

1987

Directed by Solveig Hoogesteijn, Macu, the Policeman's Woman (1987) is a Venezuelan crime drama based on a true story. The film follows Macu, a young woman living in a Venezuelan shantytown, who becomes romantically involved with a local policeman named Ismael. As their relationship develops, Ismael's jealousy intensifies, leading to tragic consequences. The narrative delves into themes of power, control, and the dynamics of abusive relationships within marginalized communities. The film is notable for its exploration of gender roles and societal issues in Latin America.

0.0

+33 07 DATE ME PLS

2022

A small film crew conducts a survey on sex, dating apps, and loneliness in a modern world.

6.0

Fort Saganne

1984

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

5.9

Retrotherapy

2024

Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman.

10.0

My Digital Boyfriend

2024

A lonely college student downloads a dating simulator app only to find her pixelated partner may be more real than she thought.

6.7

Mermaids

1990

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.

7.0

The Girl with the Instagram

2019

Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life under Nazi occupation. How would she have told her story if she had used Instagram?

6.5

My Name Is Sara

2020

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers’ marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

7.8

White Bird

2023

After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

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Charlotte

1981

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.

0.0

Sweet Talking

2024

In the glamourous Late Night Talk Show "Sweet Talking", three women fight against the stereotypes and limitations they have to face in the entertainment industry

0.0

Angela Vode: Secret Memories

2009

The life and rather obscure hardships of a Slovenian feminist author and human rights activist Angela Vode.

8.0

Through Dusky Ways

1972

When you're a newly divorced woman with two older children, it is very difficult to "rebuild your life". By chance, Monica meets someone new, but will she be able to seize this new oportunity for happiness?

6.0

Women Is Losers

2021

In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.

8.0

Penelope's Condition

1976

A reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Penelope, ”the most faithful of wives”, who waited 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from The Trojan War. In this animation, the two of them are presented in a more modern setting. While Odysseus is busy exploring the universe in his space rocket, Penelope is stuck at home, taking care of the children, showing how traditional gender roles say men should work, while women stay at home.

0.0

He Only Thinks Of Me On Sundays

Invalid Date

A feminist revenge thriller

5.5

Empire of Silver

2009

In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking empire. When circumstances dictate that he appoint his unreliable youngest son, family bonds are pushed to the limit as father and son clash in a climate of political turmoil. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival.

5.2

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman

1996

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she sees once in a while just to have sex. They are both attracted to the historic figure of Pancho Villa: he admires his power while she admires his virility. As Gina helps Adrian to write a book about Villa, she discovers the similarity between Villa's relation to women to that of Adrian and hers, and that Villa's revolution never included her, nor the rest of the female half of the human species. Can the love of a woman and a man survive machismo?

0.0

Lequando

2024

A seemingly perfect first date is interrupted by a couple's dating app that has doubts about anything but less than 100% compatibility. When two new-found lovers start questioning their compatibility over a simple card game due to a dating app's involvement, they struggle to keep a lid on their emotions as their future seems to play out in front of their very eyes. Is this app just a tech gimmick, or does it reflect so much more? With the question, do we all have a pre-planned excavated path looming over our heads? Their decisions seem to be influenced by the possible future instead of the present. Ella finds herself wondering what would happen if she just stepped out of the trampled path and into her own

Genre	Comedy, Drama
Production Companies	Sam Spiegel Film & Television School

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