Movies: Colectivo Cine Mujer

Beatriz Mira, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Mexico, films the housework carried out by women at the end of a decade marked by numerous political and social movements, including feminist groups that disputed the fact that women had been banished fro...

It follows a group of women working in maquiladoras on the U.S.-Mexico border; their testimonies tell the story of their working conditions....

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports cla...

This heterodox work draws on fiction resources and the register of documentary to denounce the phenomenon of rape in Mexico. With a complex essay-like structure, the film is a reflection on the various types of sexual violence, from the classist lega...

The film describes in a simple way the division between girls and boys through education by assigning them different behaviors based on their sex difference....

Testimony from different women of different ages about housework, marriage, and gender roles: women cook, wash, and take care of the home, while men work....

The documentary captures the struggle of the Yalatecas Women’s Union, in a remote Zapotec indigenous community, in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. It recreates the seizure of the Municipal Palace that led to the end of the cacicazgo (ruling of the c...

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