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The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.

A documentary film describing the family planning work of Margaret Sanger.

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.

You know when you’re taking a poop and you feel your NuvaRing start to slip out and all of a sudden remember you’ve been gaslit your whole life by a system that treats your vagina solely as a vessel for reproduction instead of an organ vital to your ecosystem?

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This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"

Birth Control Pill, The Movie, doggie paddles in primordial ooze. On the arc of death to birth, the children light the path while the rest are still in search. The green people merge into the green goblin king. Sucking the tit of adventure Birth Control flys over a sea of angry bees. Through landscapes and textures we span space and time, enveloped in a shrouded mystery of being, to be or not to be that is the question.

Live performance of the prog legends Birth Control. The concert recording contains new material, but also well-known classics, handmade grooves, interesting harmonies, burning solos and soulful rock vocals in front of an enthusiastic audience.

A darkly comedic, personal testimony about birth control side effects and navigating the inadequacies of women’s healthcare.

100 Best Kills dates back to the earliest days of Fantastic Fest, a cornerstone of the fest’s grand tradition of lowbrow pandemonium. In previous years, we’ve focused our knee-slapping man-reaping sights on everything from vehicular mayhem to gut-busting infanticide. We brought you Vehikills and decapitations during the pandemic years; You sick and depraved fools still couldn’t get enough! We were banging our heads against the warm walls of the Alamo and it must have been the perfect mix of patriotism and stupidity that opened the floodgates to creative genius. For this, my hungry hippos, we said to ourselves, We must bring in Louise Weard, Filmmaker, writer, programmer, and even a Canadian, to join our very own Zack Carlson to help make this the greatest kills of all time. We proudly raise the flag, salute your shorts, and present 100 BEST KILLS : Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction... A celebration and reliably comforting countdown of castrations.

Women talk about the consequences of having or not having access to effective birth control. Over the past 50 years, medical and social advances have given women more control over their reproductive health.

Birth Control: perhaps the driving force of modern society as we know it, and yet an untold story in so many ways. The Defenders features a tapestry of personal, political, academic, and medical interviews that illuminate this history from the beginning to present day.

Jen Samson travels back in time to prevent her younger self from giving birth to a couple major mistakes.

Two narrative threads: one is an emerging love story between awkward teens Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time; the other, an eventful quest of Simon the Semen and his friends to reach the golden goal, the Egg.

Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.

A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.

In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?

When Ashley, a poor college student, takes a nanny job in rural Indiana, she's kidnapped by a family forcing young women to bear children. Nomi, a survivor of assault seeking an abortion, unknowingly steps into the same family's trap.

In this stop-motion animated comedy, a young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap.

Now that contraception is controlled by women, men seem to experience carefree sexual freedom. In reality, they lose autonomy over their own seed. Director Lynn Deen started the film out of frustration: Why was the woman always the one to carry the burden that comes with lust? Gradually she saw that this luxury position actually places men in a dangerous position of dependence. They have virtually no control over both the prevention and the termination of a pregnancy. That is why they should be more involved in preventing pregnancy. Not only for women, but especially for themselves.

A headstrong trans teenager is propelled into their hangover when a reckless decision to have sex without a condom triggers an urgent need for the ‘morning after’ pill.

A teenage girl undergoes the uncomfortable and intrusive process of acquiring a birth control prescription.

Elizabeth Bagshaw was a forerunner of the women's movement. As one of the first women to practise medicine in Canada, she had to overcome society's bias against women in medicine. During her seventy-year career she helped to instigate change in public opinion on that issue, as well as the issue of birth control. The film captures the personality of this remarkable woman through a contemporary interview and re-enactments of episodes from her youth. The sepia tones of the re-enactments are in keeping with the film techniques of the time, giving the viewer a strong sense of the period. The film is of special interest to persons interested in the evolution of women's roles in Canadian society.

An exploration of the early public debate surrounding birth control, the media's involvement, and the unstoppable Margaret Sanger, in a style mimicking the films of the period.