First Run/Icarus Films > Women's Studies

New name, new look, new featured films

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:31:47 GMT

First Run / Icarus Films is now Icarus Films, and we've updated our web site to reflect the name change. We've also featured new films on the home page, so please come have a look.

Another Man's Garden

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:22:10 GMT

In order to study medicine, Sofia, a young woman in Mozambique, must overcome the traditional belief that educating a woman is like "watering another man's garden."

"Drawing Conclusions" and "Running Mate" together on one DVD!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:57:09 GMT

In time for the 2008 Election, two films about gender and politics on one DVD: Drawing Conclusions - Editorial Cartoonists Consider Hillary Rodham Clinton and Running Mate.

MADE OVER IN AMERICA trailer now available on YouTube

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:27:13 GMT

In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry? Watch the video.

Do Communists Have Better Sex?

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:57:27 GMT

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Eileen Gray

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:56:58 GMT

The reknowned designer and architect Eileen Gray was always ahead of her time; thirty years after her death she is still considered the very essence of the Modern.

Made Over in America

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:56:24 GMT

In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?

Teeth

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:55:10 GMT

An amusing but informative look at the psychological, social and economic issues surrouding the modern American obsession with straight, white teeth.

Judith Butler

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:41:55 GMT

An up-close and personal encounter with this influential educator, the author of the best-seller Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Notes on Marie Menken

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:14:17 GMT

The story of the "mother of avante-garde film" -- the influential experimental filmmaker who inspired artists such as Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger.

Unborn in the USA

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:13:34 GMT

Inside the pro-life movement. A riveting story told with more than 70 exclusive interviews with pro-life activists, and seldom-seen archival footage.

Be Fruitful and Multiply

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:40:56 GMT

How does it feel to have been pregnant or nursing for 25 out of 26 years of your married life? This film puts this and other questions directly to ultra-orthodox Jewish women for the first time.

Border Cafe

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:40:24 GMT

Reyhan, an Iranian widow and mother of two young children, reopens the roadhouse formerly run by her husband, but as this is taboo for women, she encounters much resistance.

Inside Out

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:38:56 GMT

Transsexuals in Iran. Intimate conversations with doctors, religious authorities, and transexuals about the mind/body conflict, Islamic interpretations, and the impact of sex-change treatments on their lives.

Motherland Afghanistan

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:38:18 GMT

An Afghan-American filmmaker reveals the extent of the infant mortality tragedy in Afghanistan by documenting the return of her father, an OB/GYN who emigrated to the U.S. in 1972.

Saudi Solutions

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:37:34 GMT

Personal profiles of ambitious women in Saudi Arabia, one of the most closed and conservative Muslim societies in the world.

The Secret Life of Babies

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:37:10 GMT

A two-part examination of the psychological development of babies, from intrauterine life to the first months after birth. How do fetuses and babies perceive their worlds, and ours?

Stolen Life

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:36:30 GMT

Yan-ni, a withdrawn, sullen young woman convinced that her fate is out of her hands, is accepted to college, but a chance relationship triggers a series of unfortunate events.

The Two Lives of Eva

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:35:54 GMT

The complicated, traumatic story of a young woman, the filmmaker's mother, a well-off, Polish Lutheran before WWII, who afterwards married a Jewish Warsaw ghetto survivor.

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:26:00 GMT

The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.

Clara Lemlich

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:25:32 GMT

The story of the young, Jewish, Ukrainian-born woman who in 1909 sparked the 'Uprising of the 20,000' -- the first massive strike of New York City garment workers.

Daughter of Keltoum

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:25:00 GMT

Rallia, a young woman raised in Switzerland, travels to a remote settlement in Algeria's Atlas Mountains to find her biological mother, and learns about her extended family and Berber culture.

Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:24:21 GMT

From 1967, for the first time on video or DVD, a portrait of two of the most influential and controversial writers and thinkers of the 20th century. They discuss their work, lives, and the role of intellectuals in modern society.

Making Grace

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:23:50 GMT

This candid look at the daily challenges faced by two lesbian mothers attempting to have their first child offers unique insight into the nature of families and how we make them.

Shirin Ebadi

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:23:06 GMT

In-depth introduction to Nobel Peace Prize winner in her Tehran office, interwoven with speeches at international conferences and a visit to the children's center she founded.

Breasts

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:13:42 GMT

Twenty-two women, ages 6 to 84-years-old, discuss how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging.

Chain of Love

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:13:06 GMT

A film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how the international trade in love and care affects the women involved, their families, and families in the West.

The Clitoris

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:37 GMT

A close look at that part of the female anatomy that exists purely for pleasure, and how this highly sensitive organ has long been ignored or misunderstood in the medical literature.

Fundi

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:12:01 GMT

Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.

Guns & Mothers

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:11:36 GMT

The contentious debate over gun control, as seen through the eyes of two mothers on opposite sides of the issue.

I Am Somebody

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:11:02 GMT

1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.

Marguerite, A Reflection of Herself

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:10:32 GMT

A personal portrait of the great French writer Marguerite Duras. Made with home moves, archives, film extracts, readings, and television interviews filmed over many years.

Western Eyes

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:09:52 GMT

The search for beauty and self-acceptance of two women of Asian descent contemplating plastic surgery - they believe their appearance, specifically their eyes, affect how they are perceived by others.

The Women of Hezbollah

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:09:23 GMT

A portrait of two women activists in the Hezbollah, and an examination of the personal, social and political factors of their commitment to this Islamic movement in Lebanon.

Zinat, One Special Day

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:08:40 GMT

Zinat, the first woman from the Island of Qeshm in the south of Iran to remove the traditional face mask (Boregheh), is running for elected office.