This is a special pre-festival screening of Belly of the Beast, available for a week only from Friday, October 16th to Thursday, October 22nd. Free admission for festival All Access and Virtually Everything passholders, NOFS member discounts apply! Click here to get your pass or become a member today!

When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. With a growing team of investigators inside prison working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes - from inadequate health care to sexual assault to coercive sterilizations - primarily targeting women of color. This shocking legal drama captured over 7-years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, demanding attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States.