Menstruation Movies

A grandmother discusses past and present attitudes toward menstruation.

Wide meadows, romping in the woods and building cabins. Leo (12) spends the autumn holidays with big sister Noémie and cousin Emil on Grandma...

Unable to afford proper menstrual products, Chloe is constantly faced with anxiety and humiliation; this is not the first time this has happened and...

Gala is preparing for the firefighter exam when she gets her period accompanied by severe menstrual pain. Together with her father Alfonso, they must...

Even at the age when changes in the body are expected, menstruation is still taboo for teenagers in Brazil. Mixing fiction and documentary, Menarca...

Molly anxiously awaits her first sign of menstruation, which means that she'll be able to date and go dancing. The school nurse explains exactly what...

A sophomore struggles to get passed embarrassment when she receives her menstrual cycle in front of her fellow students. Emotions run high, as growth...

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the...

Ivy gets her first period during her first communion.

A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the...

Sam’s period arrives just moments before an important visitor knocks at her door. Her frantic attempt to get ready derails into a blood-soaked...

A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period.

Delphyne (meaning ‘womb’) discusses the stigma around menstruation. Addressing shame and acceptance, taboos around menstrual blood are...

Thrown between reality and false Catholic narratives, Luna questions her sanity, exploring independence moving into her first ever apartment, as each...

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together they are the center of their own changing world....

Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or...

Short film about the menstrual cycle

A young girl gets her first menstrual period.

A bewitching celebration of menstruation which uses a variety of animation techniques from pixilation to scratch on film. An antidote to the vacuous...

The thirteen-minute documentary film contains a series of interviews where girls and women aged 10-27 discuss the 'girl to woman' experience...