Movies: Colectivo Cine Mujer

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...

A Latin American man and wife find out their daughter has a brain tumor. They are told it will cost 10s of thousands of dollars to have a neurosurgeon operate. In attempting to to get money for the surgery, the father enters into an illegal scheme bu...

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...

Women working in factories (Maquilas) at the border, a look into their working conditions and worries (fiction film) and their use of video to document their situation....

As in Vicios de la cocina (1978, Beatriz Mira) the documentary gathers the testimony of different women of different ages about domestic work, marriage and gender roles: women cook, wash, take care of the home while men work. This is one of the Colec...

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....

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...