52 Films by Women [2024]
List of films directed by women I watched and rewatched this year. Neither short films, nor co-directions (with male directors) were considered, which were the following (original titles):
Terra (2018) [Rossana Torres]
Qi ren yue dui (2020) [Ann Hui] {segment Headmaster}
Une histoire de vent (1988) [Marceline Loridan Ivens]
De humani corporis fabrica (2022) [Verena Paravel]
Terra (2018) [Rossana Torres]
Qi ren yue dui (2020) [Ann Hui] {segment Headmaster}
Une histoire de vent (1988) [Marceline Loridan Ivens]
De humani corporis fabrica (2022) [Verena Paravel]
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- DirectorAnna KarinaStarsAnna KarinaMichel LancelotMonique MorelliThe turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence.
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsAnna AntoniadesMia McKenna-BruceLara PeakeThree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsNaíma SentíesMontserrat MarañonMarisol GaséSeven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorRuth BeckermannStarsAlexander DiwiakAlexander HorwathRaphael NicholasSetting that permits analysis, emotion, reflection and intimacy in equal measure, opening up insights for us into the cosmos of eroticism and sexuality: both within and beyond the confines of male fantasy.
- DirectorNoémia DelgadoStarsAlexandre O'Neill
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsSandra HüllerSwann ArlaudMilo Machado-GranerA woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
- DirectorManuela Serra"Its uniqueness defines also a model - of cinema, of auteur, of a country, of a time - if that model could be established under the form of vagueness and of incompleteness."
- DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsVirginie EfiraAdèle ExarchopoulosGaspard UllielA jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.
- DirectorSalomé LamasThis 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsVirginie EfiraVincent LacosteMelvil PoupaudThirtysomething lawyer Victoria is struggling with her past and looking for stability and true love in her life. Finally she realizes that love should not always be sought.
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsLaetitia DoschVincent MacaigneArthur HarariOn 6 May 2012, the day of the second round of the French presidential election, TV journalist Laetitia is late leaving home for her assignment covering the events on Rue de Solférino (at the headquarters of the Socialist Party) when her ex, Vincent, shows up a day late to his court-appointed time to visit their two daughters.
- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
- DirectorRaven JacksonStarsKaylee Nicole JohnsonChris ChalkJayah HenryA decades-spanning exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsIrene RavacheCriméia AlmeidaEstrela BohadanaHalf-documental independent film about torture against women in Brazilian military dictatorship. Ravache is both a nameless narrator and main character.
- DirectorRachel LangStarsSalomé RichardClaude GensacLazare GousseauCharts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
- DirectorNina HedeniusA documentary film about animals and nature and about people who use the land and the forest.
- DirectorRose GlassStarsAnna BaryshnikovKristen StewartDave FrancoGym manager Lou falls for Jackie, a bodybuilder who is passing through town en route to a competition in Las Vegas.
- DirectorNaomi KawaseStarsMasayuki HatakeyamaHirotsugu InjiHidemitsu IshiyamaThe elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their humorous and frank philosophies about hard work, isolation, loneliness, and growing old. One woman dryly says, "Turn your camera off, being old is not entertaining." Another adds philosophically, "The wind will blow, the future will come. Without suffering there is no happiness."
- DirectorMatilde LandetaStarsMiroslavaErnesto AlonsoElda PeraltaLife is hard for a humble young woman, who arrives in the capital, and is forced to prostitute herself against her will.