Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and expressive gestures. Accompanied by desire discovered and lost, erotic femininity disfigured in a domestic space, and physical forms fragmented, two women steep in their reticent intimacy.

In Pakistan, the public space is dominated by men. The confidence with which they walk the streets or weight train quickly disappears once they are confronted with female sexuality. Off-screen, several anonymous women talk about their sexuality. The images of the conventional partiarchal society are in sharp contrast to the liberating explicitness of the accounts of clit stimulation, sex with multiple partners, pissing, abortions, and rape.

The sexual revolution of the '70s has allowed women to claim their right to pleasure and to better know their body. However, 30 years later, the female orgasm remains mysterious to a lot of people - both men and women. During the 1970's the sexual revolution enabled women the ability to lay claim to a right of pleasure in the bedroom; for the first time in public society, women were able to better understand their own bodies and discover what it actually is that enables/causes the orgasm. However, we are now 40 years since that revolution and for many men the onset and occurrence of feminine orgasm remains a total mystery.

This is the story of one simple invention, the vibrator, and its relationship to one complex human behavior, the female orgasm.

La Petite Mort est un film sur l’orgasme féminin. Guidées par la réalisatrice, des femmes d’expérience, d’âge et de préférences sexuelles différentes parlent de leurs désirs et de leur sexualité en toute sincérité. Avec sensibilité, poésie et humour, le film nous emmène au coeur de leur intimité. Loin des codes de la pornographie ou du culte de la performance, La Petite Mort propose une aventure collective menée par un désir commun de briser les tabous qui pèsent encore sur la sexualité des femmes.

Elles s’appellent Carine, Johanna, Michèle, Alexandra, Henriette. Elles vivent en France et en Allemagne, ont entre 25 et 65 ans, et viennent de tous les horizons. Elles racontent, le plus honnêtement possible, chacune avec leurs mots, leurs silences, leur vie de femme et leurs désirs intimes.

Ce road documentaire nous emmène au cœur des fantaisies et des revendications du plaisir féminin par la voix des femmes de tous horizons et de spécialistes de la sexualité. La parole des femmes sur leur sexualité, si longtemps bridée, est-elle devenue plus libérée aujourd'hui en France ? De quoi rêvent les Françaises aujourd’hui ? Connaissent-elles les merveilleuses ressources de leur corps ? Osent-elles exprimer et vivre leur désir librement ? Leurs partenaires sont-ils à l’écoute ? À bord d’un van aménagé en studio ambulant, la réalisatrice et sa chef OPV sont allées recueillir les confidences de vingt femmes de 19 à 78 ans à travers l’hexagone. Sur un ton vif et légèrement subversif, cette odyssée sur les routes du plaisir et du désir féminin offre des instants de vérité et des moments cocasses, enrichis de décryptages anatomiques, psychologiques et sociétaux.

This documentary tells the story of three grandmothers who earn a living as prostitutes. Christel, Paula and Karolina either work in their own apartment, in a brothel, or receive clients at a dominatrix studio. They have no desire to justify what they do, nor do they make a show of their profession. These three women are engaged in a constant merry-go-round of slipping into different identities, selling dreams and trying to manage their own private life. Their multifaceted personalities make it clear just how differently they go about their trade, and what made them choose to earn their bread as a sex worker. The film provides an insight in to the lives of Christel, Paula and Karolina and their sometimes surprisingly middle-class routine.

A 15-year-old A-student defies the views of her all-girls Catholic school as she confronts her feelings for a school nun.

Un film sans tabou sur un sujet fondamental, réalisé sur un ton serein, concerné, parfois avec humour, mais sans effet de surprise ni volonté de choquer. En somme, un film juste et intelligent. Il est servi par des séquences filmées ou animées et des images de synthèse claires et pertinentes.

An intimate statement about the filmmaker’s need for self-expression through her own nudity and simultaneously an effort to reject the taboo of patriarchal society. Using diary entries, anger-filled personal reflections, and discussions with a mother painting her nude daughter, the film opens the topic of overcoming shame for one’s own physicality and female sexuality.

Explores the impact American slavery had on how Black women view themselves and their sexuality.

Ce film est un documentaire de réflexion qui explore la sexualité féminine et la honte à travers les yeux de trois femmes de milieux différents, chacune assez courageuse pour tracer son propre chemin de découverte sexuelle.

Chih-Ting and Chia-Lin, two students in Pingtung Girls’ Senior High School, are bosom friends. Their close friendship attracts jealousy from other classmates; thus rumors about them being lesbians spread. When this groundless rumor victimizes Chih-Ting and costs her best friend, it becomes too much to bear. In the 70s, the Taiwanese mainstream society regarded homosexuality as a negative variation of sexuality and imputed the cause of homosexuality to growing up in an unhealthy environment. However, the two protagonists’ friendship remains the heart of the story. Their unspoken emotional undercurrents are left for the audience to infer.

A documentary about slutshaming.

With candor, humour and courage, a group of African-Canadian women challenge cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality and fight to take back ownership of their bodies. Combining her own journey with personal accounts from some of her radiant, endearing friends, co-director Habibata Ouarme explores the phenomenon of female genital mutilation and the road to individual and collective healing, both in Africa and in Canada.

In the afterglow of their happy occasion, a young newlywed couple encounters a painful truth on their wedding night that puts their future together in peril.

This feature-length documentary explores a wide range of lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women’s erotic fantasies and sexual practices. It reveals the conflicts and complexities of female sexuality as well as the joys and triumphs of self-discovery and personal empowerment.