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“Share” by Pippa Bianco (2019) A week of (US) first features Great minority presence and message Excellent gender content The quest for the truth of a sixteen-year old girl who wants to find out what happened at the party where she got raped.

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“Braid” by Mitzi Peirone (2018) A week of (US) first features Good images, music and gender content Three girlfriends share a common madness…

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“Speak Now” by Melissa Vitello (2016) A week of (US) first features Good story and music Excellent gender content The thousand-and-one nuances and colors of the world of 'bitches'

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“Pili” by Leanne Welham (2017) A week of (US) first features Good script and message Excellent gender content and minority representation…

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“The Secret Garden” by Agnieszka Holland (1993) The work of Agnieszka Holland (3/3) A Weekend Treat! Good dialogues and direction A children tale…

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“In Darkness” by Agnieszka Holland (2011) The work of Agnieszka Holland (2/3) Good script, direction, gender content and message Excellent personages and minority representation…

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“Mr. Jones” by Agnieszka Holland (2019) The work of Agnieszka Holland (1/3) Good script, images and message Excellent minority representation The true story of a Welsh journalist during the big famine of the 1930s in Ukraine, the Soviet propaganda, and the Western world abiding to it, intertwined with George Orwell writing Animal Farm.

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“Hala” by Minhal Baig (2019) Facets of Patriarchy Good script, images, music and minority representation Excellent personages, dialogues, direction and message…

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"In Bloom" by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross (2013)

“In Bloom” by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross (2013)

Facets of Patriarchy First Feature

Good script, personages, direction and images Top gender content and message

A world of women in which men are either away at war or drunk. The story of two girls who have just gone through puberty and are obliged to play their adult female social role without having the possibility of a “coming of age” A good account of how the rich life of girls is transformed…

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"Sand Storm" by Elite Zexer (2016)

“Sand Storm” by Elite Zexer (2016)

Facets of Patriarchy First Feature

Excellent script, personages, dialogues, direction and images Top gender content, minority presence and message

A movie that shows the gender divide in a Bedouin village where men “have to” obey the rules and codes of honor that they have themselves elaborated and that deprive them of any possible empathy on one side, and women on the other side, emphatic but…

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“Zero Dark Thirty” by Kathryn Bigelow (2012) A weekend treat! Good personages, humor, images and music Excellent script, dialogues and gender content Top direction…

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“Mulan” by Niki Caro (2020) Facets of (Confucian) Patriarchy A positive aspect of the movie is to bring clearly forward a patriarchal society whose chief (Confucian) value is honor.

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"Fagara" by Heiward Mak (2019)

“Fagara” by Heiward Mak (2019)

Facets of (Confucian) Patriarchy

Good dialogues

Could have been a nice movie about finding out where one belongs, if it wasn’t a movie that reenacts the core Confucian values of patriarchy with an omnipresent father who, beyond death, binds the whole network of women related to him (a wife and three daughters). Even his son in law and the restaurant staff seem to exist only because of him. Honor…

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“Sworn Virgin” by Laura Bispuri (2015) Facets of Patriarchy First Feature Excellent gender content and minority presence Interesting debut feature that tells the story of two women who escape "the gender-imposed hardships of their native culture," [

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“Unpregnant” by Rachel Lee Goldenberg (2020) Facets of Patriarchy Good minority presence Top gender content and message A movie with lots of clichés (in the story and personages, but also in the way it's filmed) but it uses the clichés to make its point loud and clear…

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“Yes, God, Yes” by Karen Maine (2019) Facets of Patriarchy First Feature Good humor and direction Excellent gender content and message Everyone is doing it but no one admits it!

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“Radioactive” by Marjane Satrapi (2019) The work of Marjane Satrapi Good gender content In this movie, Marie Curie spends more time affirming herself against male dominance than unveiling what her real genius consisted of.