Films Directed by Women

主人公是德国斯瓦比亚区乡下一名内心孤独的女教师，讲述了她在深受学生和同事不经意伤害的折磨下精神濒于崩溃的故事。

格里高利（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）是一位个性腼腆的数学教授，许多女人带着热情和期待来到他的生活中，但最后无一不以失望和离开为结局。其貌不扬的罗斯（芭芭拉·史翠珊 Barbra Streisand 饰）是格里高利的同事，在姐姐的撮合下，两人开始了交往。交往的过程十分顺利，格里高利对于罗斯的聪慧敏锐十分的中意，不久之后，他们踏入了婚姻的殿堂。
令罗斯感到困扰的是，即便是结了婚，她和丈夫之间的关系依然是柏拉图式的精神恋爱，一次偶然中，罗斯得知，原来是自己不加修饰的外表让丈夫失去了兴趣，痛苦中她决定改头换面，誓要一扫自己在丈夫心目中的糟糠形象。

生于柏林、曾在慕尼黑和巴黎攻读德国文学和拉丁文学的冯．特洛塔（Margarethe Von Trotta），从1968开始接触电影，起初她是个演员，10年后开始担任剧作和副导。作为德国新电影的中坚，她的作品探讨了女性、政治、电影三者之间的可能性。1981年，表现极权主义下一对姐妹挣扎的影片《德国姐妹》获得威尼斯影展最佳影片金狮奖，那是一部呈现其德国不稳定政权下的世界观的影片。其后从《罗莎．卢森堡》到《朋友与丈夫》等作品更是趋向于女性文本主义的表达。她说："历史背景往往只是电影的开端，而不是我的焦点，在大环境下女性如何去生活才是我的兴趣所在。《诺言》（Das Versprechen）拍摄于1994年，是她近年的代表作。1961年的秋天，一对恋人--索菲和康拉德，企图越过柏林墙逃往西柏林，却只有索菲成功。两人从此相隔两地，但任凭岁月流逝，他们的想恋之情却丝毫未变。1989年冬天，柏林墙倒塌，这对恋人终于在史普累河桥上团聚。

A visual composition of the world.

A magical and moving archive trip through the universal theme of love, from the very first kisses ever caught on film, through the disruption of war to the birth of youth culture, gay liberation and free love, we follow courting couples flirting at tea dances, kissing in the back of the movies, shacking up and fighting for the right to love.

Amu is the story of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family and discover the place where she was born. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.

2012加拿大国际纪录片电影节最佳加拿大长片，2012翠贝卡电影节最佳纪录片。
影片以两个相对极端的例子探讨了印度女性的生存状态，年轻漂亮的 Ankita和Ruhi参加选美大赛试图走上成功之路，另一位印度女性Durga Vahini，则致力于培养符合正统印度教教义的传统女性。
「印度小姐」选美比赛的美丽参赛者，以及激进教派训练营中接受军事化教育的其他年轻女孩有什么不同？ 看似极端对立的两种女性，在印度社会快速现代化的当下，不论是积极拥抱西方资本主义价值观，或是坚守传统宗教规范，其实怀抱的都是同一种寄望...

A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher."

关于1968年灾难性的圆的世界帆船比赛的纪录片。

法国1991年有”法国电影新浪潮祖母“之称的艾格尼丝.瓦达(《拾穗者与我》)执导的人物记录片，是对其丈夫、法国著名导演雅克德米(《秋水伊人》《柳眉花娇》)的一次生平记录。
雅克德米在30年代末还是个小孩，他的父亲拥有一个汽车库，他的母亲则是一位理发师，有着的家庭生活。他喜欢唱歌并且爱看电影，对所有类型的演出形式都着迷，他买了一架照像机拍摄他的第一个业余影片。这部影片通过他最亲密的人的角度，对雅克德米童年和职业生涯进行了一次全方位审视。

Most women work harder than men. They do the things they want to do when they have already spent sixty hours working on something else. Edda is tough, like so many others. These are the words of Helke Sander, who both directed and played the leading role in her first fiction feature, which reveals three days in the life of a woman and photographer - and three days in the life of West Berlin in March 1977.
Edda works as a freelance press photographer, usually on commission earning little for uninteresting jobs: taking pictures of cocktail parties, meetings, and reunions. She struggles to maintain her commitment to herself as a woman, artist and single mother, and to support herself and her daughter financially and spiritually. She joins a small team of photographers who have been commissioned to take pictures of West Berlin. The women approach the wholeness of the divided city with a critical eye, much to the chagrin of the men who meant to exploit feminism for profit while promoting West Berlin to attract business investors.
Sander's film is a brilliant yet subtle meditation on representation - how to visually and aurally depict both women in their personal and professional lives, and Berlin in its dialectical process of being a city; the film questions the construction of identities of both women and the city in conflict with common perceptions about them.
Her film proved a great success at the International Young Film Forum in Berlin in 1978 and is anything but a tearful lament on the situation of a woman who pays for her independence by restricting her other needs in life, her political and private interests and plans, to an absolute minimum. Helke Sander presents the everyday life of her stressed heroine with a great deal of irony and sympathy and just as much remoteness.
Because Edda's life is representative of that of most modern women, she is a figure with whom the viewer could identify if the director did not always carefully undermine any tendency towards illusionism, be it through her comments, her citations from films and literature, by inserting newspaper excerpts and radio broadcasts and above all through the pictures of Berlin, the Wall, the refuse, the piles of rubble and the graffiti.
This women's film is simultaneously about Berlin, a city that is torn asunder in the same way as the heroine's life, a life in installments.
"In bits, yet complete, because everything is complete and if you break it into parts, it will become complete again, each part for itself" - East German author Thomas Brasch who emigrated to the West in 1976. (Annette Meyhoer)

Documentary by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, an Iranian female director. This film portrays two aspects of the Iranian presidential election of 2001.

A woman struggles with her self-image in a house run by a weight-obsessed mother, alongside a younger sister whose eating disorder has tragic coincidences.

Peggy wants to be married.......

讲述导演肯·洛奇的纪录片——英国独立电影与电视导演编剧。他的电影作品屡次获得国际电影节多个奖项，包括戛纳电影节金棕榈奖及威尼斯电影节的终身成就奖，毕业于牛津大学圣彼得学院。

佩内洛普·斯菲利斯洛杉矶音乐三部曲中的第三部（似乎也是最后一部）装置作品《西方文明的衰落III》并没有遵循1996-1997年洛杉矶的朋克行为，而是他们无家可归的青少年粉丝。本次DECLINE对音乐家的采访很少，但包括来自Circle Jerks and Flea的Keith Morris（被誉为“恐惧的前贝斯手”）的有趣沉思。《DECLINE III》不负众望，因为Spheeris探索了街头朋克生活的方方面面，从他们受损的成长环境（几乎所有人在孩提时代都受到虐待或忽视）到他们在社会边缘的自我毁灭生活（酗酒、无家可归和与光头党的冲突等）-汤姆·弗里切

许多政治家都经历过政治生涯走下坡路的故事,但是很少有电影能够完全捕捉到像政客韦纳这种深刻且非常滑稽的一面。随着对安东尼·韦纳本人和他的家庭，以及他的纽约市长竞选团队的前所未有的采访，这部电影纪录了即将崩塌的政治事件。故事开始于前国会议员始料未及的重返政坛，但随着韦纳被迫承认新发色情短信的指控，故事又急转直下。媒体不停地挖掘和曝光他的一举一动,韦纳拼命想开拓进取,但是越来越大的压力和严重的24小时连续的新闻报道葬送了他的政治抱负。
韦纳的这场政治闹剧和个人的悲剧，揭露了前国会议员的傲慢，同时也批判了媒体对其家人攻击的丑陋一面。在纽约市这个响亮而热闹的大背景下，这部影片以一种无比坚定的、幽默而感伤的方式揭示出日益多见的政治运动的本质。

玛丽是一位小学女教师，她深爱着自己的模特儿男友保罗，保罗虽然声称爱玛丽，但却宁愿在日本料理店看书打发时间，也不愿意回家和玛丽做爱。自感蒙羞的玛丽开始进行性冒险之旅……

《主观因素》是一部很个人的影片，德国著名女导演海科·桑德根据自己的亲身经历，以混合了故事片和纪录片的形式，向我们展示了东德二十世纪六十年代末（1967 －1970）的政治背景、社会状况和重要政治事件。
所有这一切都是透过片中女主角、一个年轻的单身母亲的主观视角观察的： 在她积极参与德国妇女解放运动的过程中，她亲历妇女解放的努力以及当时社会中的其它政治运动，设法解决社会中的问题，同时又有新的问题产生。女主角的主观世界不断地接收、认识和理解社会中所发生的一切，思想也随之慢慢改变。

Acclaimed filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha ventures into the digital realm with her stunning feature, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, an incisive and insightful examination of Japan through its art, culture, and social rituals. As is the case with Trinh's previous films, her film is a multi-layered work addressing issues around its central theme: the experience of time, the impossibility of truly "seeing," and the impact of video on image-making.
THE FOURTH DIMENSION is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present. She explains, "Shown in their widespread functions and manifestations, including more evident loci such as festivals, religious rite and theatrical performance, 'rituals' involve not only the regularity in the structure of everyday life, but also the dynamic agents in the world of meaning." With its lush imagery, Minh-ha's Japan is viewed through mobile frames, with doors and windows sliding shut, revealing new vistas as it blocks out the old light.
“Trinh T. Minh-ha’s newest essayistic work and her first videotape, cuts an intricate key for unlocking this elusive culture. Her tack finds great visual pleasure in the everyday, composing and decomposing the social landscape, while constructing a poetic grid of temporalities, symbolic meaning, and ritual. In THE FOURTH DIMENSION, Trinh’s lyrical narration guides us through ‘Japan’s likeness,’ the perfected framing of the sacramental familiar.” - Steve Seid