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1) It's A Girl
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called "gendercide". The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls.....
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lost Girls of South Africa is a timely and revealing feature length documentary that offers a privileged glimpse into what life is really like for young girls growing up in South Africa. It follows the stories of four girls, aged 11-13, who become victims of child rape, looking at the experience and its aftermath through their eyes and in their words.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 2000, 110 million children in the world were not in school-two thirds of them were girls. In 2010, filmmakers Frederick Rendina and Oren Rudavsky traveled to Nepal and Uganda, two countries emerging from conflict and struggling with poverty, to find the answer to one question: What does it take to educate a girl? Framed by the United Nations global initiative to provide equal access to education for girls by 2015, TO EDUCATE A GIRL takes a ground-up...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.. They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts,...
5) 17 girls
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Inspired by events that took place in Massachusetts, Delphine and Muriel Coulin's provocative debut focuses on a group of bored teenage girls who all make an irrevocable pact. When Camille (Louise Grinberg, The Class) accidentally becomes pregnant, she encourages her friends and fellow high school classmates to follow suit. It's only a matter of time before 17 girls in the high school are pregnant and the town is thrown into a world of chaos. Set...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With only a tiny percentage of girls in sub-Saharan Africa making it to college--or even knowing someone who has--Executive Producer, Linda Stout fervently hopes that seeing a film about seven ordinary girls who did make it to college will introduce new inspiring possibilities to girls. The film shares the stories of positive women role models, of how they became who they are and how they give back to their families, communities and nations. The...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1791, the Queen was the first convict ship to take convict women directly from Ireland. It was a time of intense unrest, and the ruling class and the state dealt swiftly with crime of any kind. Transportation provided one solution for dealing with rebels, law breakers and the troublesome poor and it became increasingly so as the labour of convicts could be used to fuel the development of the new Australian colonies.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The living dead girl (La Morte Vivante) is the story of Catherine Valmont (Françoise Blanchard), a wealthy heiress dead before her time, who is accidentally reanimated when some unfortunate movers attempt to store drums of chemical waste in the neglected burial vaults below her uninhabited chateau. Rollin's "living dead girl" does everything that cinematic convention requires - she kills people, drinks human blood, devours human flesh - yet, for...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A wickedly funny parlor drama-as if it were hopped up on quaaludes and martinis-transcending its genre with fiendishly clever writing, inspired performances, and a pastel-diffused set design that combine to make a hilarious comedy about three actresses at various places in the Hollywood food chain who navigate love, aging, and ambition. Oh yeah-all three actresses are played by men!
11) Girls Rock!
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are. The girls have a week to select a band, an instrument they may have never played before, and write a song. In between, they are taught by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney various lessons...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thanks Girls and Goodbye is a documentary about a group of women who worked on farms during the Second World War in Australia - 'the land girls'. Officially established by the government in 1942, the Australian Women's Land Army was set up to help fill the shortage of manpower on farms. Its story is symbolic of a far greater number of women who participated in the vital war activity of food production at home. Through interviews with former Land Army...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS goes inside the very first girls' school in one small Afghan village. Never before have fathers here allowed their daughters to obtain an education. From the school's beginnings in 2009 to the girls' first graduation in 2015, filmmaker Beth Murphy embeds herself in this community for a most-intimate look at what it really means to be a girl growing up in Afghanistan today, and what it takes to change...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps, and other sordid souls, is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the towns most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom...blood red. The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night basks in the sheer pleasure...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video explains the physical and mental changes girls experience during puberty and and provides a guide to deal with them. It also offers strategies to help girls make friends, start dating, and prepare for the future.. The intended audience is girls nearing or going through puberty, and counselors, teachers, and parents who support them.. REVIEWS. "A straightforward, well-written, easy to understand, comprehensive, enjoyable treatment of an...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
18-year-old Xavier Raddysh knew at an early age that he was not a girl. By the time he was a teen it was painful being treated as a girl. He began "cutting" and eventually attempted suicide, twice. Today he describes himself as a role model for other trans people; speaking to students so trans people know they can get through it and others can be more understanding.
17) Magical Girl
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the breakout hits of Spain's burgeoning low-budget filmmaking scene, Carlos Vermut's debut, Diamond Flash, instantly established the young filmmaker as a deft practitioner of the thriller genre. Vermut's follow-up, Magical Girl, employs a classic noir premise, taking his exploration of the darkest side of human nature to exhilarating new extremes. Luis (Luis Bermejo) is desperate to fulfill his terminally ill daughter's last wish: to own the...
18) Another Girl
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ignoring the advice of friends, a young woman befriends a female stranger online, with whom she shares her innermost truths and secrets. It's only when she agrees to meet the girl in the flesh that she discovers the unimaginable truth.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
20) Boy Meets Girl
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eric Schaeffer's new film, Boy Meets Girl is a poignant, sexy, romantic coming of age comedy about three twenty year-olds living in Kentucky. Robby (Michael Welch, Twilight) and his best friend since childhood, Ricky (Michelle Hendley), a gorgeous transgender girl, have never dated. Lamenting the lack of eligible bachelors, Ricky considers dating a girl. In walks Francesca (Alex Turshen), a beautiful young debutante waiting for her Marine fiance...
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