A Woman is a Woman: The Female POV (a film festival at the Maysles Institute curated by Miriam Bale) opens with a doco on the history of feminism in Italy in the 60's and 70's, We Want Roses, Too. For the male perspective, Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons screens in the World Narrative Feature Competition of the Tribeca Film Festival. Best known for his gay themed Le Fate Ignoranti (Ignorant Fairies) the director's other films rarely get seen outside of Italy. Ozpetek began as an assistant to Massimo Troisi (Il Postino) in 1982 and had a Filmmaker in Focus survey at MoMA in December 2008. A Perfect Day (Un giorno perfetto) screened at the London Film Festival in 2008 and was never released. There's a touch of Italian melodrama to everything he does but it's always balanced out by Ozpetek's acute eye for casting, character and sad, gentle comedy.
Greencine interview with Ozpetek
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