Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (2018)

Directed by

Johanna Demetrakas

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

14

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 99 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary interviews women from different generations about their experiences with feminism. It uses photographs from a 1970s book to connect the past and present of the movement.

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What happens

Feminists: What Were They Thinking? is a 2018 documentary film directed by Johanna Demetrakas and starring Laurie Anderson, Phyllis Chesler and Judy Chicago among others. Women of different ages and backgrounds are interviewed by Demetrakas and a team of assistants on the subject of feminism, anchored in the book 'Emergence' with portraits by the photographer Cynthia MacAdams published in 1977. The film was partly funded by the International Documentary Association and also by a crowd funding campaign that raised over $75,000. It was released by Netflix on October 12, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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