Women Filmmakers

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  • Last Days At Sea

    Movie

    "Venice Atienza’s wistful and evocative documentary is rooted in the liminal space between childhood and adolescence." The Guardian

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

    12-year-old Reyboy lives in Karihatag, ...

  • Mama Gloria
    Movie + 1 extra

    Mama Gloria

    Movie + 1 extra

    "In her first feature, director Luchina Fisher lovingly captures the lived experience of a woman who deserves to go down in queer history." POV Magazine

    Chigago International Film Festival
    BFI Flare
    Inside Out Film Festival

    Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen blazed ...

  • Usina-Desejo contra a Indústria do Medothe

    Movie + 3 extras

    Created by filmmaking collective Anarca Filmes, Usina-Desejo contra a Indústria do Medothe is the group's first interactive film, bringing alternative endings (see Screening Instructions below) for the viewer to choose from. Directed by Amanda Seraphico, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorran Dias, the film...

  • Microhabitat
    Movie + 1 extra

    Microhabitat

    Movie + 1 extra

    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...

  • How The Room Felt
    Movie + 1 extra

    How The Room Felt

    Movie + 1 extra

    "A group of Georgian queers laugh, argue, party and love in this intimate and nuanced portrait of a close-knit LGBTQ+ community." POV Magazine

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

    In the Geo...

  • Själö: Island of Souls

    Movie + 1 extra

    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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Roads In February

    Movie + 1 extra

    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...

  • La Leyenda Negra
    Movie + 1 extra

    La Leyenda Negra

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...a deft blend of the intimate and the political that recalls the fire-in-the-belly feistiness of early Spike Lee joints." Screen International

    Sundance Film Festival
    IndieLisboa International Film Festival
    BFI Flare

    In writer-director Patricia Vidal Delgado's debut feature, a soon-to-be undo...

  • Immaculat
    Movie + 1 extra

    Immaculat

    Movie + 1 extra

    "a compelling story about lost innocence" Cineuropa

    Venice Film Festival
    Stockholm International Film Festival
    São Paulo International Film Festival

    Directors Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark powerful, gripping drama centres on Daria (Ana Dumitraşcu), a young woman entering rehab having ...

  • Tidal
    Movie + 1 extra

    Tidal

    Movie + 1 extra

    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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Easy Lessons

    Movie + 1 extra

    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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Viaje

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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 ...

  • Maybe Someday
    Movie + 1 extra

    Maybe Someday

    Movie + 1 extra

    "Maybe Someday is, indeed, a beautiful little film about loss and grief, love and letting go." The Independent Critic

    BFI Flare
    Cinequest Film Festival
    Outfest LA Film Festival

    Maybe Someday follows Jay (Michelle Ehlen), a photographer in her 40s, battling a mixture of denial and depression as ...

  • Taming The Garden
    Movie + 1 extra

    Taming The Garden

    Movie + 1 extra

    "...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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Manu

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Searching Eva

    Movie + 1 extra

    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

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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
    Movie + 2 extras

    Bixa Travesty

    Movie + 2 extras

    "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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Cavebirds

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Ivana The Terrible

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Scheme Birds

    Movie + 1 extra

    "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
    Movie + 1 extra

    Parallel Planes

    Movie + 1 extra

    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...