Women Filmmakers

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Women Filmmakers
  • Microhabitat
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    Microhabitat

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    Busan International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival
    Los Angeles Film Festival

    Miso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...

  • Själö: Island of Souls

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    For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists...

  • Roads In February
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    Roads In February

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    Toronto International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival
    Miami Film Festival

    Katherine Jerkovic's poignant, intimate debut feature follows Sarah (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) who, after the death of her father, travels from Montreal to a small village in Uruguay to visit with her paternal grandmother...

  • 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...

  • Easy Lessons
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    Easy Lessons

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    Locarno Film Festival
    Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
    Camerimage International Film Festival

    Dorottya Zurbó's insightful documentary explores the life of Kafia, a 17-year-old who fled to Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia, at the age of fifteen. Sh...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Taming The Garden
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    Taming The Garden

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    "...the foibles of the super-wealthy and the environmental cost of our way of living – are brought together in this extraordinary, savagely poetic film." The Observer

    Sundance Film Festival
    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs International Documentary Festival

    Salomé Jashi's remarkable...

  • 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...

  • Searching Eva
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    Searching Eva

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    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Film Festival
    Sheffield Docfest

    "I dedicate my life to showing the world that one can pretend to be whoever they want.“ Eva. A 25-year-old drifter, Berliner, pet-owner, poet, lesbian, sex worker, virgo, housewife, addict, feminist and model, Eva declar...

  • I Love You I Miss You I Hope I See You Before I Die

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    "Eva Marie Rødbro's arresting feature debut probes the inner and outer struggles of three generations of women in suburban Colorado Springs." Variety

    International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
    Cork International Film Festival
    Göteborg Film Festival

    A raw and emotionally impactful story of a y...

  • Bixa Travesty
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    Bixa Travesty

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    "Da Quebrada is a charismatic and compelling individual, a bold and dynamic performer and an insightful and articulate social critic." Sight and Sound

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival
    Sheffield Doc/Fest

    Directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, Bixa Tra...

  • Cavebirds
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    Cavebirds

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    "Gan’s doc is a pained love letter to her artistic, impractical father, with his love of bonsai trees, birds and old poetry." POV Magazine

    Hot Docs International Documentary Festival
    Montreal International Documentary Film Festival

    The key ingredient in bird's nest soup is the hardened saliva o...

  • 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

    Movie + 1 extra

    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...