Women Filmmakers

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  • Viaje
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    Viaje

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    "A shimmering depiction of the kind of chance encounter that can change life’s course..." The Hollywood Reporter

    Tribeca Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

    Paz Fabrega's heartfelt drama sees follows Pedro (Fernando Bolaños) and Luciana (Kattia G. Zúñ...

  • Tidal
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    Tidal

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    Vancouver International Film Festival

    This distinctive short film from directors Chloe Van Landschoot and Niamh Wilson examines the relentless nature of healthcare work, the exhaustion that the job can elicit and the toll it takes on body and mind. Utilising movement, rhythm, and dance, Tidal is...

  • Obscuro Barroco

    Movie

    "a dreamy acid trip through Rio de Janeiro’s queer nightlife." Now Magazine

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival
    Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival

    In her dreamlike, essayistic film Obscuro Barroco, Greek director Evangelia ...

  • Manu
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    Manu

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    "Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

    IDFA
    Docville
    Munich Dok Fest

    The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

  • Ivana The Terrible
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    Ivana The Terrible

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    "Family is family across the world, and the fights and familial bonds are all the same. Ivana The Terrible is an incredible relatable film." Film Threat

    Locarno Film Festival
    Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival

    A deeply personal film from director Ivana Mladenovic, I...

  • The Drawer Boy

    TIFF Film Circuit
    Winner Canadian Film Festival
    Winner Heartland Film Festival
    Winner Sedona Film Festival

    It’s 1971 and a Toronto performance troupe ventures out to Ontario’s countryside to research a theatre project. Miles, a young actor, befriends two aging farmers, a gruff workhorse named Mo...

  • Scheme Birds
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    Scheme Birds

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    "Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin announce themselves as docmakers to watch with this piercing chronicle of a Scottish teen's drastic coming of age." Variety

    Tribeca Film Festival
    Hot Docs
    Edinburgh International Film Festival

    A winner of multiple awards across the festival circuit, including Be...

  • Parallel Planes
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    Parallel Planes

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    Dok Lepizig Festival
    Chicago Underground Film Festival
    IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival

    Nicole Wegner's documentary pays homage to the American DIY spirit, and the diversity of the US musical landscape outside the commercial music industry, by portraying 12 American avant-gard...

  • Liyana
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    Liyana

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    "A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter

    Dublin International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Palm Springs Films Festival

    A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...

  • Since I Been Down
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    Since I Been Down

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    "In a nation crying for change, Since I Been Down is not only timely but a vital piece to an ever-growing picture that needs to be seen." Film Inquiry

    Directed by Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down tells the dramatic story of how an American community, held captive by 1990’s punitive policies...

  • Belly Of The Beast
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    Belly Of The Beast

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    Human Rights Watch Film Festival
    Heartland Film Festival
    Mil Valley Film Festival

    An Emmy winner in the Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary category, Belly of the Beast follows a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer as they discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s ...

  • Wake Up On Mars
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    Wake Up On Mars

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    "...a thoughtful film, handsomely made and eye-opening." The Hollywood Reporter

    Tribeca Film Festival
    Visions du Réel Film Festival
    Biografilm Festival

    A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious resignation syndrome that has put his two sisters in a co...

  • Silence Is A Falling Body

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    International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
    Filmfest Hamburg
    Brooklyn Film Festival

    Silence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...

  • Summer Rebels
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    Summer Rebels

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    Thessaloniki International Film Festival
    Cinekid Film Festival
    Goa International Film Festival

    11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...

  • Little Miss Westie
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    Little Miss Westie

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    DOC NYC
    BFI Flare Film Festival
    Bendfilm Film Festival

    Little Miss Westie follows two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, school, family and transitioning during the Trump era. Ren is competing in the Little Miss Westie Pageant; her older brother Luca is coaching her on posing, make-u...

  • P.S. Jerusalem
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    P.S. Jerusalem

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    Toronto International Film Festival
    DOC NYC

    Filmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...

  • Maggie
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    Maggie

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    "Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"

    Busan International Film Festival
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
    Fantasia International Film Festival

    Stylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...

  • Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band)

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    Rotterdam International Film Festival
    Mar del Plata Film Festival
    FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival

    Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...

  • Our Body

    Movie

    "one of the year’s most notable Korean independent features.” Screendaily

    Toronto International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival

    After dedicating years of her life studying for the public official exam, Ja-young (Moon Choi) suddenly loses interest and makes the difficult decision...

  • While We Are Here
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    While We Are Here

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    Rotterdam International Film Festival
    Art of the Real
    Montreal International Documentary Festival

    A hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...

  • Elena
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    Elena

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    "a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist

    SXSW Film Festival
    Hot Docs International Film Festival
    Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

    Dreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...

  • Sashinka
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    Sashinka

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    Seattle International Film Festival
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
    Whistler Film Festival

    When young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...

  • 180 Degree Rule
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    180 Degree Rule

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    Toronto International Film Festival
    BFI London Film Festival
    Fajr Film Festival

    Based on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...

  • Queerama
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    Queerama

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    "...a heartening celebration of progress and a cautionary reminder of all the broken lives and lonely hearts trampled along the way." Screendaily

    Sheffield Doc/Fest
    IDFA
    Seattle International Film Festival

    This expertly edited compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both d...