Movies and TvShows featuring "period-poverty" theme.

A 13-year-old Afghan refugee hustles around in a refugee camp when she experiences her period but has no access to sanitary napkins.

Unable to afford proper menstrual products, Chloe is constantly faced with anxiety and humiliation; this is not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last. 'Absent' is based on multiple true stories and made in association with Freedom4girls. It aims to raise awareness around period poverty in the UK.

Since 2019, menstrual products have been unaffordable for almost three quarters of the Lebanese population. Jeyetna draws ten intimate portraits of women experiencing period poverty (including Amira, a refugee from Syria, Gigi, a transgender woman, and Funmi, a migrant worker from Nigeria).