Patriarchy Movies

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...

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...

Follow the trail of a 'hungry' Los Angelino haunted by patriarchal normalcy, social media addictions and superstitious stereotypes. Can she escape...

Breaking a centuries-old taboo, Ava stands as the first woman in Iran to master the male-dominated craft of carpentry. Within the grit and clamor of...

The film follows three boys as they play and interact, revealing a familiar dynamic: teasing, bullying, and testing each other’s limits. We see...

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

Caste Aside is a documentary about the British government's controversial decision on whether or not to introduce legislation against caste...

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...

Salma tries hard to meet her boyfriend in Egypt amidst struggles at home with her suspicious overprotective mother, and outside in the street, and...

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises...

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

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

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

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...

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

A daring exploration of the intersection of religion, patriarchy, and gender oppression in India, unearthing how rituals, customs, and cultural...

A young islamic woman who wants to expose the truth about the government's injustice in a patriarchal society.

What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to villages in the absence of men? Sent...

In 10th century Norway, a young shaman is forced to hunt down her outlaw sister.