Femmes D Un été

Condor is a quiet and merry little town in the Gers which actively promotes sports. But things are not always what they seem and when horrible murders are committed there, it means tranquility is over - During the opening night of the Bandas festival, the mayor of the town is found dead, electrocuted in a fountain. The investigation gives Captain Julie Leroy a unique opportunity to dispel the mystery about her origins.

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.

A little sea resort on the Picardie coast, the last week of august. When handing over the keys to a rented apartment, Sylvain makes the acquaintance of two beautiful women. This is a fabulous occasion for him to escape his routine, single life in which women are a rarity, even if only for a few days. Quickly Sylvain's new friends can't do without him. Unfortunately, things get complicated when feelings and flirty Gilles, the local lady's man, get mixed up in it all.

The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.

A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the women became increasingly involved in the strike, they questioned more and more their traditional supportive role. This provoked many heated discussions among the women and obviously not without upsetting husband, family, union - and company...

A man is chased by ten women!

"They were thousands to dance at the Université libre de Paris 8 in the Bois de Vincennes where we were following the classes of Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, as well as those of Gilles Deleuze. A fire of joy shared by all generations. With my sister Magda, my mother Bozena, my great-aunt Hanna, Laurence and all the friends."

The debate in France about the abortion laws in 1974.

At the gateway to the Lut Desert, in the province of Kerman, Iran, the ancient caravanserai of Shafi Abad becomes the site of an unexpected video workshop. Director Hamed Zolfaghari provides a group of housewives with cameras, just as they’re starting to organize a co-operative to control every step of the fabrication and sale of their handicraft products.

The struggle for Muslim women’s emancipation is often portrayed stereotypically as a showdown between Western and Islamic values, but Arab feminism has existed for more than a century. This groundbreaking documentary recounts Arab feminism’s largely unknown story, from its taboo-shattering birth in Egypt by feminist pioneers up through viral Internet campaigns by today’s tech-savvy young activists during the Arab Spring.

A documentary about the feminist movement in France and Switzerland in the 1970s, retracing the history, the struggles, the achievements, and the upheavals.

The Viennese cab driver Maggy has all kinds of problems, not least monetary ones. But suddenly Maggy's financial problems could solve all by themselves when Juliette Koons, who has been reported missing, gets into her cab with a heavy suitcase.