Rambling Rose is a coming-of-age drama set in the 1930s American South and follows the story of a young woman's sexual awakening. Rose, a troubled teenager, becomes the house guest of a wealthy family in Georgia. As she navigates her way through adolescence, Rose explores her own sexuality and forms a complex bond with the family. The film explores themes of love, friendship, dysfunctional family dynamics, and self-discovery within the backdrop of the Great Depression.
When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal involuntary sterilizations in California’s women’s prison system, they take to the courtroom to wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from dangerously inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. But no one believes them. This shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated women, demanding our attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.
Jaq is a typical young woman, navigating the foibles of life, love and endometriosis.
There can be no real gender justice without an unpacking of the power structures surrounding the reproductive health industry complex—and of the choices that the market pushes on women. Abby Epstein’s latest documentary highlights the dark history of eugenics and underfunded research that the birth control pill, often heralded as a feminist turning point in the history of reproductive rights, hides within itself.
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