Every Shadow Seems Alive
After experiencing her first heartbreak, Anais declares war on all the boys in 6th grade.
Women are sexually insulted and threatened by men every day. Experts around the world are registering an anti-feminist backlash that seems to be on the verge of becoming socially acceptable. Particularly affected: women in publicly visible positions – such as politicians, actresses or entrepreneurs. Who is behind the attacks and what are the motives?
Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings.
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where do babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
Príbeh žien nadaných na prácu s číslami, fyzikou a prvými počítačmi je pre mnohých neuveriteľný: bez Katherine Johnsonovej, Dorothy Vaughanovej a Mary Jacksonovej by totiž prvý americký astronaut nevyletel na obežnú dráhu. Neuveriteľnosť príbehu má však málo spoločné s vesmírom a viac s predsudkami v segregovanej americkou spoločnosti 60. rokov minulého storočia.
Ani veľký a legendami opradený Čínsky múr nedokázal zastaviť hordy bojovne naladených Húnov, ktorí napadli mierumilovnú Ríšu stredu. Múdry cisár vyhlasuje mobilizáciu. Podľa príkazu má z každej rodiny do armády narukovať jeden muž. Táto armáda má v pláne neľútostnému dobyvateľovi zasadiť smrtiaci úder. Medzitým sa v jedej z malých osád chystá tak trocha nerozhodné dievča Mulan na stretnutie so svadobnou dohadzovačkou, ktoré však dopadne katastrofálne. A svadba je pritom pre dievčatá niečim posvätným. Mulan má jednoducho vlastnú hlavu, ktorá je tvrdšia ako diamant. Ešte v ten sitý deň do osady prichádzajú cisárski verbovači a starému otcovi Mulan hrozí, že bude musieť narukopvať. Je totiž jediným mužom v rodine. Ešte v tú istú noc si Mulan ostrihá vlasy a stáva sa mužom. V dobrodružstve, ktoré ju čaká, však našťastie nebude sama...
It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever. Featuring surfing greats Jodie Cooper, Frieda Zamba, Pauline Menczer, Lisa Andersen, Pam Burridge, Wendy Botha, Layne Beachley and more, "Girls Can't Surf" is a wild ride of clashing personalities, sexism, adventure and heartbreak, with each woman fighting against the odds to make their dreams of competing a reality.
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a woman for today.
Last year’s critically acclaimed show ‘30’ sold out every night at the Edinburgh Festival and his UK and US tours. From those tours, Jeffries, the controversial Aussie stand-up, brings you his debut DVD, Contraband Live. Succeeding with jokes that most comedians wouldn't touch, and an ability to both charm and offend the crowd in equal measure, Jim is regarded as one of comedy’s fastest rising young stars. His brash confrontational style has made him one of the most sought after comics on the world stage, appearing on numerous TV shows and performing at all the major comedy and music festivals across Europe and the US. He has hosted the NME Awards in LA and narrowly avoided being bombed whilst performing to the troops in Iraq.
Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Mask You Live In asks: as a society, how are we failing our boys?
Zámožný Texasan Bick Benedict sa ožení s krásnou, cieľavedomou a húževnatou Leslie z Marylandu. Ich život na ranči nie je vôbec jednotvárny. Musia denne riešiť problémy s pastiermi dobytka, pomocnými robotníkmi z Mexika aj s ich mladým predákom, z ktorého sa nakoniec stane mocný ropný magnát.
More than twenty sports journalists – working mainly on television (BeIN Sports, RMC Sport, France Télévisions, Canal+, TF1) but not only (L'Équipe, Radio France) – testify to the anger, despondency and helplessness they felt when they had to endure the “Yucky jokes”, the « culture de boy’s club » and degrading insults on social networks, while at the same time the presence of women in these programs and in the press has increased. Without forgetting the misogynistic comments, the heaps of small sentences on the physique or the competence, the sexual innuendos… until the moral or sexual harassment.
Drawing on the book of the same name, League of Denial crafts a searing two-hour indictment of the National Football League’s decades-long concealment of the link between football related head injuries and brain disorders.
Jeden muž je mŕtvy. Dvaja sú obvinení z vraždy. Pred súdom stojí ale celá námorná pechota. Pár správnych chlapov zapáli najvýbušnejšiu kapitolu v dejinách americkej armády, v ktorej pôjde o dynamické zúčtovanie s korupciou, snahou o krytie zločinu a neúnavné hľadanie spravodlivosti v nedotknuteľnom americkom námorníctve.
Irritated by Catholicism, Linda, an American-based, Blonde Caucasian, falls in love with Qater-based Ali Al-Saigel, adopts the Islamic faith, and gets married. She follows her new faith to the letter, and subsequently gives birth to seven children (four daughters and three sons), brings them up according to true Islamic dictum's, and reflects on her 20-year married life, her children, as well as her reaction when her husband indicates that he wants to re-marry.
In a city overflowing with buildings and slums, Smita must find herself a house to rent. She is hard-working, honest and respectful - the ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw. She is a middle-class Indian woman without a husband. An intimate perspective on the identity of the 'Ideal Indian Female' in urban India of today.
An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.