Susan Shapiro

Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair

Esther Ronay, Francine Winham

Patricia Leventon, Jessica Swift

An extended, truly extraordinary animation sequence opens this hard-line, good-humoured work from the London Women’s Film Group. The film decodes the mythic story of Rapunzel, re-framing the folk tale in a variety of unlikely ways, revealing its darker edges and exploring its role in the relationship between patriarchy and childhood. Look out for Lora Logic from X-Ray Spex, plus Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention.

Fakenham Film

Susan Shapiro

Documentary filmed during the third and fourth months of a successful six month work-in by women workers at Sextons Shoe Factory, Fakenham, Norfolk. Faced with redundancy, the women employees of the shoe factory occupied the building and began producing leather goods as a co-operative.

Women of the Rhondda

Esther Ronay, Mary Kelly

Doreen Adams, Alice Boxall

Four women speak movingly to the camera on their experience of the General Strike and life in the 1930s and 40s in a depressed South Welsh mining village.