Menarca

Apr 3, 2025

1h 20m

★ 0.0

Overview

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 bodies.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Lua de Maré Produções

Mulungu Realizações Culturais

Giro Planejamento Cultural

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Cast

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Lara Simões

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Laís Bastos

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Laritza Peixoto

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Maní Grimaldi

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Sâmara Santos

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Lara Carvalho

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. On the face of it, not much happens in the lives of these Polish best friends, but big changes are on the way. The end of primary school is in sight, and the girls are impatiently awaiting first love, budding breasts and first periods.

4.5

Linda's Film on Menstruation

Jan 1, 1974

This is an educational short released by the Los Angeles Public Library explaining what to expect when you get your first period.

6.0

Growing Girls

Nov 15, 1949

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood.

0.0

Bloodshed

Jul 8, 2022

Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or relief, they navigate the physical and emotional toll of intensely painful periods while trying to maintain a normal life.

5.5

Learning to Live

Nov 8, 1964

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.

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4.0

Period: The End of Menstruation

May 1, 2006

As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman’s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogates the cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.

0.0

Empty Womb

Nov 12, 2021

The manifesto of a body that bleeds by nature, the reconnection with the ancestors and the self-portrayed voice of a woman who seeks to break with the oppression that has forced us to experience menstruation with fear, shame and rejection.

0.0

Period: A State of Purity

Feb 20, 2020

Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the Thupten Choling monastery in the Himalayan foothills discuss their mentruation practices.

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0.0

Sexualerziehung im 10. Schuljahr: Der weibliche Zyklus

Jan 1, 1963

Short film about the menstrual cycle

6.2

Towelhead

Sep 12, 2008

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

5.7

I am Leo

Nov 5, 2021

Wide meadows, romping in the woods and building cabins. Leo (12) spends the autumn holidays with big sister Noémie and cousin Emil on Grandma Marlies' farm. However when Leo is surprised by what Grandma Marlies calls big news, Leo faces an identity crisis. "I am Leo" immerses itself into the emotional world of a child who is on the way to discover their gender identity. A film about expectations that overwhelm, about thoughts that restrict and about the courage to find yourself.

4.8

Anatomy of Hell

Jan 28, 2004

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

6.9

Ginger Snaps

Aug 10, 2000

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

7.1

A Tale of Two Sisters

Jun 13, 2003

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

0.0

SACRA

Oct 1, 2023

No overview available.

0.0

Shedding

Apr 11, 2024

In a strange morning, Gabi had the feeling of being absorbed by something unusual.

3.5

First Blood

Aug 11, 2022

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

4.0

Hot Dog

Jan 15, 2019

Hannah wasn't always happy about the existence of her 'Vajayjay'. She talks about how she used to imagine having sex would be like a Céline Dion song and how she discovered masturbation thanks to her PlayStation controller. She's in a love-hate relationship with her vagina and chronicles how her feelings towards her sexuality have changed over time.

6.4

Eve's Bayou

Nov 7, 1997

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

7.4

Jane Austen's Period Drama

Feb 9, 2024

England, 1813. In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his expensive education has missed a spot.

Menarca

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