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Gender and Sexuality

This area contains several of our early classic, groundbreaking works, in addition to newer films that touch on important contemporary topics. Women's Studies, LGBTQ+, and Men's Studies are subtopics of this category.

Gender and Sexuality

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Gender and Sexuality

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Gender and Sexuality

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Featured Films

Amma's Pride

With her mother’s support, a trans woman fights for legal and societal acceptance of her marriage in India.

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Long Haulers

"All truckers are either running away or running to something.”

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Tender

Black trans women face gentrification and rising rent in a neighborhood they’ve always called home.

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Break The Silence: Reproductive & Sexual Health Stories

17 diverse women speak with riveting honesty about their most intimate experiences

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Mezzo

Mezzo celebrates the life and artistic endeavors of an openly trans opera singer.

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A CHANCE TO DRESS

What’s it like to live in the shadow of a lifelong secret? And then to come out with the truth?

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Breaking Silence

Surviving incest and child sexual abuse

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Still Missing

When children are abducted by non-family members

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Stories of Change

Four women transforming their lives

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34x25x36

Mannequins, perfection, and religion.

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Bionic Beauty Salon

A chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body

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Body Typed: media illusions of the perfect body (3 Film Package)

Use humor to start important conversations -- from different cultural angles.

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Embracing Our Sexuality

Women talk about their sexuality

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Funny Ladies

A Portrait of Women Cartoonists

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In the Name of Love

Modern day mail-order brides

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Leona's Sister Gerri

Gerri Santoro's death galvanized America's abortion movement.

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Nana, Mom and Me

An absorbing portrait of three generations of women

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Passionate Politics: The Life & Work of Charlotte Bunch

Women's Rights are Human Rights!

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Straightlaced - How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up

How gender pressures impact all youth - straight and LGBT

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Sunshine

Young, single, pregnant, and unprepared, filmmaker Karen Skloss grapples with the changing definitions of family and looks for answers by reconnecting with her own biological mother.

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All Films About Gender and Sexuality

Amma's Pride

With her mother’s support, a trans woman fights for legal and societal acceptance of her marriage in India.

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Band of Sisters

A retro look at one the largest marches for women's lives in U.S. History.

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Mama Has a Mustache

A short, quirky animated documentary about identity and family outside of the traditional gender binary, as seen through children’s eyes.

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The Other Side of the Wall

Two young teen siblings from Honduras are forced into parenthood as illegal immigrants in Mexico.

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Long Haulers

"All truckers are either running away or running to something.”

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Sometimes I Wonder Who I Am

In the early days of the Women's Movement, a young mother examines her limited choices.

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Loving With Three Hearts / Amar con tres corazones

Behind the Scenes of the 2020 Sins Invalid Performance / Detrás de las escenas del performance del 2020 de Sins Invalid

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Taking Off the Mask

No matter the crime, rape's not part of the penalty.

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CodeSwitching: Race and Identity in the Suburban Schoolhouse

An Intimate Portrayal of Self-Identity, Race, Gender & Education

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Busy Inside

Karen, a therapist, helps people who suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder—the condition she has herself, juggling seventeen alter egos of her own.

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Tender

Black trans women face gentrification and rising rent in a neighborhood they’ve always called home.

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Wrestling Ghosts

Wrestling Ghosts is an intimate and heart-opening documentary about parenting, childhood trauma and healing.

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