I’m Every Woman

A cinematic exploration of womanhood across time and borders, I’M EVERY WOMAN intertwines the intimate stories of two women navigating infertility and loss with a history of reproductive oppression, using black-and-white animation and re-imagined archival footage to reveal the social, political and emotional forces that shape the expectations we put on women and motherhood today.

Director’s statement
We are two women directors united by the common trauma of losing a pregnancy. The reasons for doing this might be very personal, but the topics we are tackling go beyond personal dramas. One in three women in the world faced abortion, child loss or infertility. We seek to empower women around the world to open up and talk about their bodies, their traumas, their perspectives on femininity and women’s roles and rights in our contemporary societies that are far from being safe from intrusion and limitations. On the contrary, it feels like we are entering a spiral of global oppression of women's rights we thought impossible just a decade ago. Who would have believed that half of US states will ban abortion, a ban that it is now expanding to in-vitro insemination procedures? That political parties in Poland would call for ban of voting rights for women or that the French Parliament would have to include abortion rights in the constitution in fear of potential far-right impulses?