Woman's film marriage plot. The female protagonists in these movies are driven by something other than romantic love. Within British cinema, David Leland returned to the formula of the 1980s woman's film in "The Land Girls" (1998). The film tells the story of three young women during World War II and offers its heroines the opportunity to escape their old lives. "Bend It Like Beckham" (2002) emphasizes the key generic theme of female friendship and casts the heroine in a conflict between the restrictions of her traditional Sikh upbringing and her aspirations to become a football player. Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" is
A Girl Like Her WomenWho Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before" Roe v. Wade", places the women’s stories within the social history of the time period and Fessler’s story as an adoptee. It was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 and received the Women’s Way Ballard Book Prize in 2008, a prize given annually to a female author who makes a significant contribution to the dialogue about women’s rights. "A Girl Like Her" premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival "in April 2012" "and went on to screen at the "Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival",