52 Films by Women [2020]
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):
Taego Ãwa (2016) [Marcela Borela]
La telenovela errante (2017) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Dal Polo all'Equatore (1987) [Angela Ricci Lucchi]
Grzeli nateli dgeebi (2013) [Nana Ekvtimishvili]
Die Kinder der Toten (2019) [Kelly Copper]
Maria: Não Esqueça Que Eu Venho dos Trópicos (2017) [Elisa Gomes]
Trop tôt/Trop tard (1981) [Danièle Huillet]
Papusza (2013) [Joanna Kos-Krauze]
Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992) [Danièle Huillet]
Girimunho (2011) [Clarissa Campolina]
Indianara (2019) [Aude Chevalier-Beaumel]
Sicilia! (1999) [Danièle Huillet]
Comment ça va? (1976) [Anne-Marie Miéville]
Forman vs. Forman (2019) [Helena Trestíková]
Até o Fim (2020) [Glenda Nicácio]
El Tango del Viudo y Su Espejo Deformante (2020) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Antena da Raça (2020) [Paloma Rocha]
L'Île aux oiseaux (2019) [Maya Kosa]
Guerra (2020) [Marta Ramos]
A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos (2014) [Maíra Bühler]
Taego Ãwa (2016) [Marcela Borela]
La telenovela errante (2017) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Dal Polo all'Equatore (1987) [Angela Ricci Lucchi]
Grzeli nateli dgeebi (2013) [Nana Ekvtimishvili]
Die Kinder der Toten (2019) [Kelly Copper]
Maria: Não Esqueça Que Eu Venho dos Trópicos (2017) [Elisa Gomes]
Trop tôt/Trop tard (1981) [Danièle Huillet]
Papusza (2013) [Joanna Kos-Krauze]
Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992) [Danièle Huillet]
Girimunho (2011) [Clarissa Campolina]
Indianara (2019) [Aude Chevalier-Beaumel]
Sicilia! (1999) [Danièle Huillet]
Comment ça va? (1976) [Anne-Marie Miéville]
Forman vs. Forman (2019) [Helena Trestíková]
Até o Fim (2020) [Glenda Nicácio]
El Tango del Viudo y Su Espejo Deformante (2020) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Antena da Raça (2020) [Paloma Rocha]
L'Île aux oiseaux (2019) [Maya Kosa]
Guerra (2020) [Marta Ramos]
A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos (2014) [Maíra Bühler]
List activity
297 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
57 titles
- DirectorRayhana ObermeyerStarsHiam AbbassFadila BelkeblaNadia KaciFatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order. All the more as Meriem, a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl comes to take shelter at the hammam. And as irate brother, Mohamed, is after her to cleanse his honor in blood.
- DirectorLuciana Foglio
- DirectorDiana CardozoStarsKarina GidiMima Vukovic-KuricCarlos CoronaIn the year 1991, Manuela and her grandmother, a Serbian immigrant who flew from the World War II, live together in Mexico. A conflict starts in their homeland, as well as in their private lives.
- DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
- DirectorJodie MackA playful trip around the world, through its fabrics and textiles and their place in a busy international market.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsUrsina LardiAndreas PattonAnne TismerA woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.
- DirectorSharon LockhartStarsNaomi HasegawaEri HashimotoEmi IshidaThis non-narrative film depicts the routines of a girls' basketball team in a junior high school near Tokyo. Shot with a stationary camera, it consists of six ten-minute segments, some of which show the girls' routine exercises, others of which are choreographed.
- DirectorVeronika KasererHeiko, a bright, lively dance teacher from Berlin has been fighting a deadly illness for 7 years. When his family and friends have gotten used to the fact that Heiko just lives on, despite all predictions, he comes home to die. It's a story of a family in between holding on and letting go, a story that celebrates life within death.
- DirectorOk-seop YiStarsLee Joo-youngKoo Kyo-hwanMoon So-riShe wants to believe for everything.
- DirectorClara van GoolStarsSarah ReynoldsDane HurstClaire JohnstonThe enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an ominous secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsThorbjörn BjörnssonEsther BussMartin ClausenAfter a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsJuliette BinocheWilliam HurtStephanie ButtleA psychoanalyst in NYC exchanges apartments with a woman in Paris. When his patients show up, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early to NYC and becomes a patient.
- DirectorJessica Dunn RovinelliStarsEdem Dela-SeshieThomas LoveRachika SamarthFour queer and trans youth in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel So Schön by Ronald M. Schernikau.
- DirectorHelena IgnezMichele MatalonStarsCarlos CareqaCarlos FigueiredoBeth GoulartA marginal version of Brecht's piece, "Baal".
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsDelphine SeyrigMichael LonsdaleMathieu CarrièreAnne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsJesse EisenbergDakota FanningPeter SarsgaardThree radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsBruce GreenwoodPaul DanoSettlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
- DirectorMarie LosierStarsCassandroAfter 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself.
- DirectorPamela B. GreenStarsJodie FosterAlice GuyPamela B. GreenPamela B. Green's energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.
- DirectorAya KoretzkyStarsAya KoretzkyJiro KoretzkyAtsushi SugitaThe portrait of a father as seen through the eyes of his daughter by means of a photo album. A travel diary from the 1970s, starting in Japan and around the world. Father and daughter cross views on the memories of the old images and words, sharing the will to bring them to the present day.
- DirectorLesley ManningStarsMichael ParkinsonSarah GreeneMike SmithIn a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
- DirectorEliza CapaiStarsMarcela JesusLucas 'Koka' PenteadoNayara SouzaYoung Brazilians make history in this radical document. Initially they are fighting for education, then their subversive actions take on a new dimension.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsAlia ShawkatJohn MagaroDylan SmithA skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two collaborate on a successful business.
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczDeragh CampbellStarsDeragh CampbellAaron DanbyElizabeth RuckerA young woman discovers letters in a Harvard archive that her great-grandmother wrote to a fellow Polish poet.
- DirectorElfi MikeschMonika TreutStarsMechthild GroßmannUdo KierSheila McLaughlinWanda ist von Berufs wegen grausam. Ihre Spezialitaet: das Erfinden von Fallen fuer ihre Liebhaber/innen. Gregor, der romantische Schwaermer, wird aus seinem Traum gerissen. Justine, die naive Unschuld aus Uebersee, muss lernen, dass auch die Leidenschaft eine Illusion ist. Herr Maehrsch, ein Journalist, will ein Interview mit Wanda und lernt dabei etwas ueber seine verborgenen Wunesche. Nur Caren weiss, worum es geht. Deshalb spielt sie auch bald keine Rolle mehr. (aus dem Prorammheft Max-Ophuels-Preis 1995) "Aufregenderes, subversiveres, seltsameres Kino wird man so bald bei uns nicht mehr zu sehen bekommen." (H.C. Blumenberg, die Zeit)
- DirectorJennifer WestAn etched, hand-painted 35mm digitized film comprised of coll-aged words, images, patterns and glitches shot from over 500 movie title cards to a musical soundtrack.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsAdolf HitlerHermann GöringMax AmannThe infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsClara RiedensteinMarcello UrgegheIngrid CavenHis home is war. Her home is Portugal. Yet the young, newly married wife of Lord von Ketten is determined to make her husband's family abode, an inhospitable castle on a cliff in northern Italy, into her home.
- DirectorBeatriz SeignerStarsMarleyda SotoEnrique DiazMaría Paula Tabares PeñaNuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.
- DirectorPaula GaitánStarsNegro LeoAva Rocha
- DirectorÉléonore WeberStarsNathalie RichardTo shoot: a gun or a movie camera. The military analogy is born with the beginning of cinema. Eléonore Weber's (Les Hommes Sans Gravité, IndieLisboa 2008) documentary is exclusively based upon footage recorded by French and American soldiers in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. From the top of their helicopters, a viewfinder scans the night and watches for suspicious activity from moving heat dots. They have the power to take or keep lives.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsRita DurãoFernando RodriguesHugo TouritaRoberto is a dandy!An unmoved, inscrutable and thus enigmatic man. He enjoys the aristocratic amusement of astonishment.Women, whom he knows full well in all sorts of styles and races, can no longer surprise him.The truth is that Roberto feels the intimate tedium of those who have exhausted all the delights and pleasures of this life.Yet... One evening,he is intrigued by a woman who reminds him of someone.That night, of descent into heaven and rising to hell, this woman discloses the peculiarity of the life that has become hers.And amidst the terrible overwhelming, Roberto witnesses the sublime horror into which that woman has dropped.He leaves closed within himself,unsettled by the glimpse of a certain love that,after all,he never has lived.
- DirectorAnna Sofie HartmannStarsLisa Loven KongsliJakub GierszalMaren EggertA Danish summer: long days turn into blue nights. A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. Three people meet and part ways again.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsMário BarrosoLuís Miguel CintraTânia DinisThe film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.
- DirectorRubika ShahStarsRed SaundersRoger HuddleKate WebbRock Against Racism was formed in 1976, prompted by Eric Clapton. It blends fresh interviews with archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsMaria GonçalvesBruno TerraSophie BalabanianAn impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where they live. The issue is time. The time they don't actually have (studies, families, distant houses) and the time of their own life - being so young they are subject to what that life brought upon them, that's when the "story" of the film begins, therefore linked to a life that until then was not chosen by them. This is one reason, which leads to a runaway process. Escape in the possible return to this world.
- DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsDelphine SeyrigNoëlle ChâteletNathalie NellIn response to a new friend's queries, Vera recounts her life, starting with her no-good husband Jean, who has been using her to keep his failing building business afloat - up to the present affair she's having with Cayre (Depardieu).
- DirectorCatarina VasconcelosStarsManuel RosaJoão MóraAna VasconcelosThe passing away of their mothers makes Catarina and her own father meet in an emotional place that is different from the one most fathers and daughters know.
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsJohn HawkesMiranda JulyMiles ThompsonA lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
- DirectorHelena IgnezFakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This show of popular art from the circus is presented and analyzed through a collection that reveals the success of these presentations with their championships of resistance to pain and the great presence of the public.
- DirectorDiane Sara Bouzgarrou
- DirectorMariya SaakyanStarsAnna KapalevaOlga YakovlevaSos SargsyanIn the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the safety of Moscow. They are hesitant to leave and as Lena stays to aid them in the rebuilding process, she finds herself being drawn back into the familiarity of the surroundings that she once chose to leave behind.
- DirectorXinyuan Zheng LuStarsZhou ChenYe HongmingJin JingZhao Muzi went back to her hometown Hangzhou for spring festival. Her parents divorced years ago, her mother is dating a foreigner now while her father started a new family and had a new kid.
- DirectorAlice RiffIn a public school, high school students organize themselves for the electoral race that will elect the command of the school guild.
- DirectorThais GuisasolaSimon Jaikiriuma PaetauStarsThais GuisasolaSimon Jaikiriuma PaetauDaniel MartinsIn a field of transgenic corn, an artist penetrates herself with a cob, ignoring how close she is of dying. Her sister follows her steps and carries her ashes, going on a trip through the Amazon that will turn into a spiritual search.
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsRichard JenkinsDebra WingerEvan Rachel WoodA woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsBill MurrayRashida JonesMarlon WayansA young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.
- 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."
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsMiranda JulyHamish LinklaterDavid WarshofskyWhen a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
- DirectorChia-Yun YangStarsHsiao-Fen LuLun HuaNien-Kuo KaoA rape/revenge thriller directed by a woman: When the assault of a model goes unpunished, a lady journalist, herself assaulted in turn, goes into action.
- DirectorAnja KofmelStarsSusanne-Marie WrageMegan GayChristian WürtenbergCroatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.
- DirectorMargaret TaitStarsCelia ImrieJack ShepherdGerda StevensonBarbara Thorburn wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet.
- DirectorEliza HittmanStarsSidney FlaniganTalia RyderThéodore PellerinA pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
- DirectorKathleen HepburnElle-Máijá TailfeathersStarsViolet NelsonElle-Máijá TailfeathersCharlie HannahAfter a chance encounter on the street, a woman tries to encourage a pregnant domestic abuse victim to seek help.
- DirectorSung-a YoonStarsWela Mae C. BundaMary Beth C. CampoHilda D. CoronelThe question of domestic slavery in our globalized world, while emphasizing those women's determination, sisterhood and the strategies they find to face the obstacles that awaits them in the near future.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsKaya ScodelarioJames HowsonSolomon GlaveA poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.