FROM WOMEN, FOR EVERYONE comes together from the abundance of this year’s submissions that focus on women’s rights and women’s empowerment. There are timely documentaries and animations that navigate what it means to end legal abortion in a post-Roe vs. Wade era; there are ones that promote self-acceptance, convey female subjectivities, and strive to inspire; there are subtle, poetic works that embrace motherhood and aging, ruminate on the sense of loss, or call for the necessity of mutual aid in an environment where support system goes missing.

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Hemorrhage | Ruth Hayes | USA | 2023 | 4 Mins

Animated agitprop against the end of Roe and the evisceration of women’s rights to choose.

Contractions* | Lynne Sachs | USA | 2024 | 12 Mins

What happens when those who gestate no longer have control of their bodies? In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States. The film takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic.

*In-Person Screening Only

I Am a Horse | Chaerin Im | South Korea, Denmark | 2022 | 8 Mins

Unable to find girls in the diverse artwork of the Korean artist Lee Jung-seob, filmmaker Chaerin Im unravels an imaginative tale of women born with half of their bodies as a horse and a tiger. The tale is inspired by her mother’s Korean birth dreams (Tae-mong) while pregnant with her twin sister and herself.

Otherhood* | Deborah Stratman | USA, Jordan, Brazil | 2023 | 3 Mins

Mother and child confront the other. Meanwhile, some ladies are thinking.

*In-Person Screening Only

Grandmamauntsistercat* | Zuza Banasinska | The Netherlands, Poland | 2024 | 23 Mins

Created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, this film tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

*In-Person Screening Only

First Aid – Test Series 1 | Maria Anna Dewes, Myriam Thyes | Germany | 2022 | 9 Mins

Care and violence, acknowledgement and reprehension, to give or withdraw support: the video finds performative, sculptural, bizarre and poetic images for this range of diverse gestures and actions. They line up like a series of tests reflecting interpersonal relationships and current social conditions.

legs | Jennifer Still, Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau | Canada | 2023 | 15 Mins

Three artists work in stride to translate, in sound and motion, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpecteds – snapped clotheslines, drained swimming pools, terminal diagnoses – and learn what falls away is not necessarily gone.

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