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Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage (1991)

Classic documentary about the role of black women in the American civil rights movement – with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Pratibha Parmar has an impressive record when it comes to taking part in and documenting international black…

Zanele Muholi: Difficult Love (2010)

A highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of 'visual activist' and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.

Adele Tulli:365 without 377 (2011)

Imposed under the British colonial rule in 1860, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code criminalized any sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex, stigmatizing them as “against the order of nature”. On 2nd July 2009 the…

Zemira Alajbegović/Neven Korda: Staro in Novo (1997)

Staro in novo je dokumentarec o posnetkih FVVidea. Rekonstruira živahni vrvež na 'ljubljanski subkulturni sceni' v 80-ih letih. Množico dokumentov in video posnetkov, nastalih od 1982 do 1989, sta avtorja združila v enourno pripoved, v kateri se melanholična zgodba posameznika prepleta s tokom družbeno-kritične subkulture in širšim zgodovinskim okvirjem - manično jugoslovansko socialistično realnostjo.

Femmes émancipées (1901)

Six scantily dressed women chat while freshening up. At the instigation of one of them, all get up and perform a brief choreography.This short, naughty scene was to be watched in private: it could only be seen through a Théoscope,…

Barbara Hammer: Nitrate Kisses (1992)

Nitrate Kisses combines interviews with homosexual couples, four same-sex couples making love, footage of 1933 homoerotic film Lot in Sodom and images of LGBT history. The couples making love are two elderly lesbians, an interracial gay male couple, two young…

Monica Treut: Gendernauts (1999)

GENDERNAUTS explores phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in the Bay Area, California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological…