Movies: Patriarchy

A documentary that brings together interviews with 20 activists who address the issue of intersectional feminism and patriarchy in Portugal....

A DJ encounters a beautiful woman at a club, goes back to her home, and finds himself thrust into a nightmare odyssey of ritual magic, patriarchal death customs, and family conflict most unusual....

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate tas...

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 region in point of tradition and African-Arabic rules, all women are under the pressure of patriarch soci...

MOTHER and DAUGHTER are left alone in the house to navigate the grief of SON’s unnatural disappearance. As they slowly start descending into delirium, DAUGHTER tries to emulate behavioural traits of he brother, where as MOTHER starts talking to the L...

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

The cinema depicts the daily sexual harassment of a woman by speech, physical and gaze and the resulting emotional strain on her personal and professional life. In a patriarchal society, women themselves along with men participate in the attitude tow...

Marina and Perla join thousands of women on an annual Catholic pilgrimage. Perla's coming of age accentuates a generational divide as she struggles to assert her independence as a woman....

The collective of antipatriarchal men is a political organization that, since 2010, organizes spaces of group self-reflection to problematize the role of masculinity for those who identify as and/or are read as men. This documentary was filmed around...

Arriving Late...

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 troubled relationships. The movie shows the stories centered to these women and societal issues faced by th...

A woman is stalked by a mysterious stranger during a day at the beach....

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

A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova....

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 Away Boys weaves together stories of individual ambitions and family biographies from Punjab (India)...

Sur: Tanah Hijau Gadis Belia (2024) Sur is a girl who just graduated from school and is the only child who lives with Dar, her grandfather. He faces a choice that forces him to choose between marrying or working with his mother in the city as a hous...

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historica...

When Tehran hosts visiting foreign dignitaries, the local authorities clean up the city’s urban image through the controversial process of ‘urban beautification’. Those who are deemed unsavoury are rounded up – drug users, prostitutes and the homeles...

While the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war rages on far away from Baku, Azerbaijan, Banu has four days to find someone to support her in court against her influential soon to be ex-husband, Javid. He is trying to get full custody of their son Ruslan by cl...

Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy....