WMM at Lesbian Lives 2025
Thank you so much for attending LESBIAN LIVES 2025. We were honored to have three films distributed by Women Make Movies screen, including: A MOTHER APART, SALLY!, and LESBIAN CUSTODY.
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Sally!Dir. Deborah Craig, Ondine Rarey, and Jörg Fockele Sally Gearhart was a charismatic radical lesbian activist, author, and academic who spearheaded the 1970s and 80s lesbian feminist movement, yet her remarkable contributions have been largely unrecognized. This documentary changes that. |
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A Mother ApartDir. Laurie Townshend How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin radically re-imagines the essential art of mothering. |
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Lesbian CustodyDir. Samuael Topiary & Molly Skonieczny LESBIAN CUSTODY is a video essay that revisits Frances Reid’s groundbreaking 1977 documentary IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILDREN, the first film to document the legal and emotional struggles of lesbian mothers fighting to keep custody of their children. |
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Esther Newton Made Me GayDir. Jean Carlomusto A feature documentary about the pathbreaking cultural anthropologist, dog agility enthusiast, and iconic butch lesbian, Esther Newton. |
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My Name is AndreaDir. Pratibha Parmar A hybrid feature documentary about controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life. |
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Rebel DykesDir. Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams REBEL DYKES is a riotous documentary about the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in post-punk, 1980s London. |
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The ArchivettesDir. Megan Rossman For more than 40 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash. |
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Love, BarbaraDir. Brydie O’Connor A touching tribute to the pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, told through the lens and love of her partner of over 30 years. |
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LesbianaDir. Myriam Fougère A parallel, lesbian-feminist revolution was born out of the women’s and civil rights movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Filmmaker Myriam Fougère takes us on a road trip through the United States and Canada as she revisits the activists of the time who sparked this revolution to define their own culture. |
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The Passionate Pursuits of Angela BowenDir. Jennifer Abod THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen, who grew up in inner city Boston during the Jim Crow era and went on to become a classical ballerina, a legendary dance teacher, a Black lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor. |
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Lives: Visible/LeftoversDir. Michelle Citron Lesbians in a box…two thousand private snapshots hidden away for over fifty years reveal the rich history of Chicago’s working class butch/fem life in the pre-Stonewall era. |
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