Examines how media portrayals of women shape cultural expectations, visibility, and access to power, drawing clear connections between

representation and real-world outcomes across politics, business, and public life, and features influential voices including Gloria Steinem, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Rachel Maddow, and Nancy Pelosi.

Investigates sexual assault within the United States military, exposing how institutional culture and reporting structures have protected hierarchy over accountability. By centering the experiences of those who came forward, the film reveals systemic failures that allowed abuse to persist inside one of the nation’s most powerful institutions.

Follows three young public defenders (Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander, and June Hardwick) in the American South as they navigate an overburdened criminal justice system defined by underfunding, racial inequality, and overwhelming caseloads. Through their day-to-day work, the film exposes how access to legal representation shapes outcomes for the most vulnerable, while highlighting the emotional toll and moral resolve required to challenge a system designed for expediency rather than justice.

Explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. Every day in the U.S., at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often former) partners. Through the eyes of two survivors, Deanna Walters, a mother who seeks justice for the crimes committed against her at the hands of her estranged husband, and Kit Gruelle, an advocate who seeks justice for all women, we bear witness to the complex realities of intimate partner violence. Their experiences challenge entrenched and misleading assumptions, providing a lens into a world that is largely invisible, a world we have locked behind closed doors with our silence, our laws, and our lack of understanding.

Follows a group of young women who enter the amateur pornography industry seeking independence and financial opportunity, revealing how power imbalances, online demand, and industry pressures shape their choices, working conditions, and sense of agency.

Set between Afghanistan and Iran, the film follows Sonita Alizadeh, a teenage refugee who dreams of becoming a rapper while facing pressure to be sold into marriage to help support her family. As Sonita uses music to speak out against forced marriage, borders,and gendered expectations, the documentary captures the collision between individual agency and deeply entrenched cultural and economic constraints. What unfolds is a portrait of artistic expression as resistance and the high stakes women face when they insist on defining their own futures.

The true-life story of a girls’ high school step team set against the background of the heart of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love, and thrive, on and off the stage, even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counselors, coaches, and families, they chase their ultimate dreams: to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives by making it their goal to have every member of their senior class accepted to and graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so.

Nadia Murad’s public advocacy unfolds against the weight of a trauma she never asked to carry. As a young Yazidi woman who survived ISIS captivity, she moves from hearing room to newsroom to international summit, repeatedly asked to recount the violence inflicted on her community. The film reveals the emotional toll of becoming a global symbol while still piecing together a life of her own and underscores the burden placed on women expected to transform personal loss into public action.

Through a blend of personal family history and investigative reporting, the story traces the lasting human consequences of China’s one child policy, revealing how state control over reproduction led to forced sterilizations, coerced abortions, child abandonment, and deep social trauma. Interviews with families, midwives, propaganda officials, and local enforcers expose how fear and compliance shaped an entire generation, and how societies struggle to reckon with collective harm long after policy ends.

At its center is Sibil Fox Richardson, known as Fox Rich, whose marriage, motherhood, and activism unfold in the shadow of a decades-long prison sentence imposed on her husband for an armed bank robbery. After serving her own sentence, she returns home to raise six children while sustaining a years-long campaign to reunite her family, a fight that ultimately leads to his clemency in 2018 after 21 years behind bars. Drawing from both present-day observation and a deep archive of personal home videos, the story measures time not in years, but in absences, resilience, and the quiet work of holding a family together.

An exploration of truth, justice and the meaning of power, through the lens of an all-women’s newsroom. Khabar Lahariya’s newsroom offers a vivid look at what it means for Dalit women to hold the press card in a landscape shaped by caste and gender. As the team transitions from print to digital reporting, they document corruption, violence, and local politics with clarity and conviction. The film highlights their persistence in spaces where their presence has long been dismissed and shows how journalism can shift when those most often excluded are the ones shaping the story.

Families who have lost loved ones to preventable childbirth complications illuminate the profound inequities facing Black women in the United States. Their stories, alongside the work of doulas, midwives, and activists, reveal how medical systems can overlook warning signs and dismiss women’s concerns with devastating consequences. The film underscores the urgency of confronting racial bias in maternal care and highlights the growing movement demanding safer births and systemic accountability.

In this moving first-person documentary, a young filmmaker delves into her mother and grandmother’s complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity. Having grown up in rural Vermont, far removed from the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat, Sierra Urich knew of Iran only through family stories, food, and holidays. Seeking to make sense of her heritage, she turns to Mitra and Behjat to construct a probing and sometimes disarmingly funny history of three generations of women and their complex relationship to an Iran of the past. Interrogating family history and memory, including her grandmother’s experiences as a preteen bride and her mother’s rebellious teenage years during the Iranian Revolution, Urich crafts a rich, personal family portrait that poignantly reflects the diasporic experience.

Follows journalist Shiori Ito as she documents her fight for justice after reporting a sexual assault by a powerful media figure in Japan. Through personal video diaries, court records, and investigative reporting, the film traces her legal battle and public backlash while exposing the structural barriers survivors face within Japan’s justice system and media culture. By placing the camera in the hands of the person most at risk, it becomes both a record of institutional failure and a testament to the personal cost of speaking out against entrenched power.

Sara Shahverdi steps into public office as the first woman elected to her rural Iranian village council, bringing the perspective of a midwife who has long witnessed the consequences of restrictive social norms. As she challenges child marriage, advocates for women’s inheritance rights, and confronts entrenched power structures, her work shows how change often begins in the most local of spaces. The film captures the courage required to lead within a community shaped by tradition and the possibility that emerges when one woman chooses to push the boundaries of what is expected.