Bottoms

Bottoms

Two high school outcasts start a self-defence club to hook up with the cheerleaders they have crushes on in Bottoms. PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are best friends, who are outcasts at their high school and harbour unrequited crushes for school cheerleaders Brittany (Kaia Gerber) and Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) respectively. Following a…

Band

Band – Hot Docs 2022

An all-woman art rock band gives themselves a year to hit it big in Band. Iceland’s Post Performance Blues Band is a mix of electronic music and performance art consisting of the trio of Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir, Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir, and Saga Sigurðardóttir. First getting together in art school, the PPBB has grown tired of playing…

The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground

From Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) comes this examination of the epidemic of sexual assault on college and university campuses all across the United States.  One in five women on U.S. college campuses experience sexual assaults, however very few are willing to report them, due to inaction and…

The Hunting Ground

The Hunting Ground

From Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) comes this examination of the epidemic of sexual assault on college and university campuses all across the United States.  One in five women on U.S. college campuses experience sexual assaults, however very few are willing to report them, due to inaction and…

Ukraine Is Not a Brothel

Ukraine Is Not a Brothel

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, there was growing perception that all the women from Ukraine become prostitutes.  To combat this, the feminist activist organisation FEMEN was formed.  FEMEN members perform topless protests to speak out against the patriarchy left over from Ukraine’s Soviet past.  However, when it comes to the rights of women…

Buying Sex

Buying Sex

It is commonly said that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession.  Some believe that sex is a commodity and there is absolutely nothing wrong with exchanging money for sexual services.  On the other hand, there are those that believe that prostitution is a form of male oppression, which has no need to exist in today’s…