Logo: The Time Is Now

The season of women's rights + fights in film

  • Films
  • Venues
  • Screenings
  • Articles
  • About
  • Contribute

Screenings

Education Politics & Law Protest Sport

Bend it like Beckham

directed by Gurinder Chadha

Jesminder, the daughter of a Punjabi-Sikh Indian couple from Hounslow - wants something more than the life already carved out for her – and her heart is set on football. A comedy about fitting in, standing out and bending all the rules!

Checkout screening dates and times

Carry Greenham Home

directed by Beeban Kidron, Amanda Richardson

Velvet fist in iron glove - Greenham Common Women's Peace formed in 1981 to protest the Government’s decision to allow cruise missiles to be based in Berkshire. In April 1983, tens of thousands of women came together to form a 14-mile human chain.

Checkout screening dates and times

Die Suffragette

directed by Urban Gad

Based on the life of Christabel Pankhurst. A film that marks the pivotal actions and political convictions of Nelly Panburne - most notably putting a bomb under the chair of the suffragette’s opposition, Lord Ascue. Can rebellious actions be dissolved by love in unexpected places?

Checkout screening dates and times

Difret

directed by Zeresenay Mehari

A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.

Checkout screening dates and times

Dreamcatcher

directed by Kim Longinotto

Through the remarkable story of Brenda from Chicago, Longinotto’s electrifying and deeply moving documentary 'Dreamcatcher' explores the cycle of neglect, violence and exploitation which each year leaves thousands upon thousands of girls and women feeling that prostitution is their only option to survive.

Checkout screening dates and times

Fatima

directed by Philippe Faucon

Mother/daughter relationships are at the centre of this story of North African-born cleaner, Fatima and her family living in France. Conflict and alienation inside modern French society is exposed through this sharp, insightful and warm slice of life.

Checkout screening dates and times

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

directed by Shola Lynch

Gripping documentary on trailblazing college professor, activist and icon, Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapulted 26 year-old newly appointed UCLA philosophy into a revolutionary political icon.

Checkout screening dates and times

Gett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem

directed by Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz

An Israeli woman seeking a divorce from her estranged husband is effectively put on trial by her country’s religious marriage laws. This tightly wound film shows an uncompromising fight for freedom and a heart-rending portrait of a woman’s struggle to overcome an unmoving patriarchy to live a life of her own design. A powerhouse courtroom drama.

Checkout screening dates and times

Girlhood

directed by Céline Sciamma

Marieme joins an all-girl gang in the projects of Paris and is slowly turned out of her shell by her three sassy neighbours. As she falls further under their bravado and volatile energy, she begins making brave and foolish choices.

Checkout screening dates and times

He Named Me Malala

directed by Davis Guggenheim

Malala is a young girl with a strong voice. Standing up for women’s education rights in her home country of Pakistan made her a target for the Taliban in 2012.

Checkout screening dates and times

In The Turn

directed by Erica Tremblay

Checkout screening dates and times

Janis: Little Girl Blue

directed by Amy Berg

Checkout screening dates and times

Made in Dagenham

directed by Nigel Cole

An inspirational, feel-good film about the fight for equal pay - Made in Dagenham is set during the successful strike by 187 women car workers in the Ford Dagenham factory in 1968. Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women finally lay down their tools when they are reclassified as "unskilled". In a protest that eventually leads to the Equal Pay Act; they take on their corporate paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the male-dominated House of Commons itself.

Checkout screening dates and times

Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film

directed by Various

With a title inspired by Emmeline Pankhurst’s speech, the BFI presents over 20 silent archive films combining gloriously anarchic comedies, newsreels and rarely seen footage with a specially commissioned live score by Lillian Henley. A fascinating insight into women’s suffrage.

Checkout screening dates and times

Mustang

directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Set against the stunning backdrop of small town Turkey, five fiercely independent sisters fight against outdated social traditions and family pressures. Impassioned and affecting, Oscar‐ nominated Mustang is bold and powerful.

Checkout screening dates and times

Offside

directed by Jafar Panahi

In Iran, women are officially banned from men’s sporting events. In June 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the world cup. Young women football fanatics struggle against all-male rule by dressing as boys to infiltrate the match. Intelligent, funny satire on culture and the position of women.

Checkout screening dates and times

Persepolis

directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

Based on the graphic novel memoirs of Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is the poignant story of a young, outspoken nine-year old girl coming-of-age in Iran during the 1979 Revolution. Through her eyes we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power — forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden.

Checkout screening dates and times

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

directed by Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin

In 2012, three women activists performed a 40 second "punk prayer" inside Russia's main cathedral. They were arrested on charges of religious hatred and entered a trial that reverberated around the world and transformed the face of Russian society forever.

Checkout screening dates and times

Sepideh

directed by Berit Madsen

Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations for a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh's ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger.

Checkout screening dates and times

Suffragette

directed by Sarah Gavron

Suffragette is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal state.

Checkout screening dates and times

Thelma and Louise

directed by Ridley Scott

An iconic and seminal road movie with one of the most memorable female friendships on screen (and off)!

Checkout screening dates and times

Vessel

directed by Diana Whitten

A fearless sea captain sails a ship through loopholes in international law, providing abortions on the high seas, and leaving in her wake a network of emboldened activists who trust women to handle abortion on their own terms.

Checkout screening dates and times

Wadjda

directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, independent 10 year old Wadjda wants to wear trainers, listen to rock music and most importantly to ride a bike. Shot entirely in Saudi Arabia this is the first feature-length movie made by a female Saudi director.

Checkout screening dates and times

Whale Rider

directed by Niki Caro

One young girl confronts the past to change the present and determine the future in this magical, moving story of Pai’s struggle to fulfil her destiny. In a small New Zealand coastal village, she must stand up to a thousand years of tradition to reveal the true way forward.

Checkout screening dates and times
Supported By:
Logo: British Film Industry Logo: Pathé Logo: FOX Logo: Into Film
Produced By:
Logo: Showroom Workstation Sheffield Logo: Film Hub North Logo: Film Audience Network

@timeisnow15 @https://www.facebook.com/TimeIsNow15 instagramTimeIsNow_15
sitemap privacy terms & conditions

powered by vot.io