Film Categories: Work about Women

  • Dress Code

    A humorous look at the stick-girl on the sign of a ladies’ bathroom door.

  • Cherries in the Snow (an Ode to Joan Nestle)

    An ode to Joan Nestle and all the other fabulous femmes who came before me.

  • Réveille (Wake Up)

    This simple and engaging animated film tells of an event which changed the course of French history in North America: the deportation of the Acadians, or “neutralist French,” from Nova Scotia by the English and Americans. The French Canadians are burned out of their homes, displaced to Louisiana. The image of soldiers/oppressors transformed into children’s toy soldiers has been called one of the most quietly powerful moments in animation history. The anger and poinancy of “Reveille” is enhanced by a haunting Acadian folk song.

  • Head Stick ‘em

    One morning, Tallulah Bighead discovers she’s out of Head Stick ’em, the sticky goo that holds her watermelon head on her tiny neck. Helped by her oddball cats, Tallulah struggles to keep her head from falling off and getting into mischief.

  • Spike

    Spikey has two mommies. A light-hearted look at the joys and anxieties of lesbian parenting.

  • Tourbillon, Le

    Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau’s presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist. (LB) English and French with subtitles.

  • Play, She Said

    A look at the effects of an eccentric and loving mother on a mind warped from the womb.

  • Slickster Fixter

    A noodle-legged hero plucks distressed females out of otherwise boring predicaments.

  • Skinned

    The wanton moment in which a young boy recognizes he is no longer infallible.

  • Pink Eyed Pet

    Sometimes topical treatments aren’t enough to cure love’s infections.