Patriarchy Movies

Sima, a talented woman who was punished by her father for drawing an erotic painting in the art class as a teenager, gives up painting forever. Now...

A summer of tender longing, where a fleeting dream felt achingly real.

Sur: Tanah Hijau Gadis Belia (2024) Sur is a girl who just graduated from school and is the only child who lives with Dar, her grandfather. He...

Explores the evolution of patriarchy as one effective way of organizing mass societies, from evidence in ancient Egyptian villages along the Nile.

A traditional wedding procession walks along a narrow street towards the home of the bride. Guests and family members are waiting inside the home on...

Love blossoms secretly between two old women at an elderly care home while the specter of patriarchy looms large overhead.

When a pathologically well-behaved woman is told she will die in 24 hours from a condition caused by emotional repression, she finally begins to...

In 1930’s British India, sixteen-year-old Indira finds herself torn between true love, her duty to follow through with an arranged marriage,...

'Figure I' uses a feminist perspective to frame and deconstruct patriarchal techniques of control. This film asks: how was a patriarchal gaze...

A time-based piece was recorded by performance artist/activist Tasha Diamant. Once again, police use state apparatus to quell legal free expression....

Filmmaker Anand Patwardhan looks to history and psychology as he delves into the possible reasons behind the demolition of the Babri Mosque.

The Other Side of Burka is a 2004 Iranian documentary directed by Mehrdad Oskouei. In the southern island of Qeshm, Iran, which is a very strict...

Kim, a Duluth, MN mother of three, is at the center of this compelling exploration of gender violence. As Kim and her daughters flee to a domestic...

MOTHER and DAUGHTER are left alone in the house to navigate the grief of SON’s unnatural disappearance. As they slowly start descending into...

"Virgina" tells a tale from the 19th century Serbian village near the Adriatic Sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a...

An unexpected turn of events happens after a woman faces off with a competitor that wants her job.

Based on the novel of same name by K. Shivaram Karanth. Sarasamma, a woman who lost her life in the practice of Sati, is worshiped by women in...

The collective of antipatriarchal men is a political organization that, since 2010, organizes spaces of group self-reflection to problematize the...

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my...