LGBTQ poet Staceyann Chin has spent decades trying to reconcile the abandonment by her mother in A Mother Apart. When Staceyann Chin was a 9-year-old in Jamaica, her mother Hazel for a new life in Montreal. Now a lesbian beat poet, Staceyann is still trying to cope with this abandonment while trying to be a…
A group of women bare their souls in an Estonian smoke sauna in Smoke Sauna Sisterhood. In Southern Estonia, a group of women gather in a traditional smoke sauna to cleanse themselves. Each of the women tells their own personal stories, with subjects ranging from having breast cancer, coming out as lesbian, and being a…
Three millennial women identify as present-day witches in Coven. Over the generations, the concept of witches has evolved from a patriarchal fear of strong women to a religious form of spiritualism that is embraced. Three Toronto-based women have embraced Wiccan teachings in their own ways. Laura is a solitary witch who traces her ancestry to…
The turbulent first five years of the career of Sinéad O’Connor are reframed through a feminist lens in Nothing Compares. Growing up in Ireland with an incredibly abusive mother, Sinéad O’Connor entered the world of music as a form of therapy. Despite shaving her head to rebel against being a musical commodity, Sinéad would end…
Trigger Warning: This film deals with sexual abuse A woman and her family come to terms with their history of sexual abuse in Silent Beauty. When Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, it results in painful memories come flooding back. This results in Jasmin deciding to come forward about…
Underrepresented female rock pioneers prepare to make a comeback in FANNY: The Right to Rock. FANNY is a band formed in the late-1960s by Filipino-American sisters Jene and June Millington, along with a rotating line-up that included drummers Brie Darling and Alice de Buhr, keyboardist Nickey Barclay, and guitarist Patti Quatro. The band was one of…
Six female Cannabis cultivators and entrepreneurs struggle to survive, following the legalization of recreational marijuana in California in Lady Buds. The passing of Proposition 64 in California resulted in Cannabis becoming legal for recreational is. This allowed many involved in the Cannabis industry to try and legitimize their businesses, including second-generation cultivator Chiah Rodriques, retired…
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