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The Secret Reading Club of Kabul Review: The Anne Frank Story As It Plays Out Today

by Nidhil Vohra
May 1, 2026
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The Secret Reading Club of Kabul brings three young women together to read the diary of Anne Frank and consider their situation in Afghanistan.

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Widow Champion Review: Seeing Women as Community, Not Property

by Susan G. Cole
May 2, 2025
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Widow Champion follows Rodah Nafulah as she helps women in Kenya gain independence through her NGO KELIN in the face of patriarchal traditions.

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A young South Korean woman stands above a desk looking through stacks of photo albums. She is wearing a yellow sweater and there is a full bookcase behind her.

My Missing Aunt Review: Confronting Family Secrets and Cultural Norms

by Rachel Ho
May 1, 2025
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A filmmaker explores a family secret above a relative whose existence was long hidden from her, and the culture of silence behind the loss, in My Missing Aunt.

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Manizha Bakhtari, an Afghan woman, stands in an elevator. She is wearing a dark suit with a pink and yellow checkered scarf.

The Last Ambassador Review: Returning Our Attention to Afghanistan

by Rachel Ho
May 1, 2025
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Powerful documentary The Last Ambassador observes Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's only female ambassador, as she fights for women's voices back home.

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Mama Review: A Self-Portrait from the Oncology Ward

by Pat Mullen
April 27, 2025
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Ana Christina Benitez offers a personal film diary of her experience with breast cancer after being diagnosed at 36 years old in Mama.

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We, the Women Review: Finding Your Voice in the Past

by Emma Badame
May 8, 2023
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Colombian filmmaker Emilce Quevedo Díaz offers an intimate space for the women of her family to talk out past traumas in We, the Women.

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La Madrina Review: A Survivor’s Savage Story

by Liam Lacey
April 29, 2021
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Some characters lead lives that demand to be celebrated and commemorated on film and Lorine Padilla, is surely one of them. The Puerto Rican-American “Madrina” (Godmother) of Raquel Cepeda’s La Madrina: The

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