Working Women Movies

In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations...

The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory.

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the...

In this film, Hanne Krogh meets some of the women of the sea. From the Viking woman to the world's first and only submarine captain who is Norwegian.

The documentary by Mari Soppela focuses on glass ceilings, a metaphor for the invisible borders between men and women in work life. Talk about glass...

Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings reveal gendered battles as platform workers and the...

In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.

At Ngay Ngay, a village in northern Senegal, there are real natural evaporative basins in which depending on the year large or small quantities of...

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: Didn't her...

"Work While You Have the Light" is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that examines professional women who are over seventy...

A school teacher never just teaches. A step back in time of the life of a school teacher in a small city in the North of France and her experience of...