Cycles of Dignity: Menstrual Lives Across the Global South

Menstruation touches 1.8 billion people every month. Yet across the world, it is still wrapped in silence : at school, at work, at home, across every stage of life.

Cycles of Dignity is a short film produced by the Sang Pour Sang consortium. Filmed across the Dominican Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Cameroon, it follows six people through the moments that define their menstrual lives : from the anticipation of a first period to menopause, through the realities of disability, gender diversity, and a working world that was never designed around a body that bleeds.