Movies: Menstruation

Even at the age when changes in the body are expected, menstruation is still taboo for teenagers in Brazil. Mixing fiction and documentary, Menarca offers the space for a group of teenagers to talk about their cycles and how they affect menstruating ...

The thirteen-minute documentary film contains a series of interviews where girls and women aged 10-27 discuss the 'girl to woman' experience alongside their beliefs, perceptions and experiences of menarche, adolescence and the menstrual experience....

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A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous sanitised view of menstruation promoted by advertising. A dream life of angels. What wings really mea...

Short film about the menstrual cycle...