Films Directed by Women

A look at the search for the fabled Northwest passage, the legendary path through the ice across the Canadian Arctic, and the attempts made by wealthy British explorer Sir John Franklin and penniless Norwegian Roald Amundsen.

"Pills Profits Protest" is a documentary about global AIDS treatment activism. It examines the national and international grass roots response to an epidemic that has already overshadowed the Black Death in terms of human lives lost.

Bill Goodman is a celebrated psychiatrist who leads a double life: he has a wife and daughter in New York; at the same time, the bigamist has another wife in London. Despite his long absences both families lived in domestic bliss, until one day the wives find out about each other and team up to turn on the man who so cunningly made everyone happy for so long...

安德斯·希尔（本·门德尔森饰演）长期生活在“痼习之地”，这是康涅狄格州一个富裕的小村庄，位于通勤铁路线上，如今他准备好享受明智生活的回报了。他五十多岁，刚刚退休，付清了成年儿子读大学的学费，安德斯觉得他已经受够了这种稳定的习惯：于是他离开了妻子（埃迪·法可饰演），买了一个公寓，等待无拘无束的自由给他生活带来转变。没有了之前身份带来的舒适感，安德斯开始了一段磕磕碰碰而又令人心碎的旅程……

Mohammad Javad Halimi is a simple government's employer who manages after years to buy a house for himself outside the city's limits. But in the second night in his new house a thief is coming to his house. He manages to catch the thief but delivering him to the authorities is another story.

A documentary about life and career of an eighty-year-old Iranian actress, Iran Daftari.

Drama and documentary are combined in this stylish and ambitious film, in which 3000 local people took part. The film delves into the complexities of rebuilding a city, showing frustrations along the way as well as vivid scenes of family life in trying circumstances.

A searing documentary about the homeless people and shantytown dwellers of Tehran that has been banned.

Aboard the top deck of a cruise ship, Baran, a young wealthy girl, notices a native boy who is dancing joyfully to beating drums. Baran arrives at a plush hotel on the mainland, however she seems somewhat disconsolate. Later she finds the native boy again and they begin to bond, playfully exploring the beach resort together. Later, the two go aboard a row-boat and the native dives down into the water to collect a pearl from the seabed for her. However, the ending leaves the audience to wonder if he was a figment of Baran's longing imagination all along. Well-shot and with a strong performance from Baran Kosari, this film perfectly captures the bittersweet pangs of young love.

大致内容是一个寡妇带着9个孩子，在一个富人家打工，她每天都把孩子藏在阁楼里
。早上送他们上学 像是赶鸭子似地....

The first uncensored documentary about the Soviet Union ever made by an outsider. The film takes viewers to 12 of the 15 states of the former USSR.

On his way out of a wedding, a young boy named Peachskin finds a jewel by chance. Bringing it back to its owner, she becomes his benefactress in the years that pass.

A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.

The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.

Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's death, she is entrusted to Mme de Fleurville, her aunt, who at the same time hires Mademoiselle to further Sophie's education. A few years later, the little girl has blossomed into a lovely young lady. She is now in love with Paul, her cousin, who, unlike her, used to be a model child. Unfortunately Mademoiselle will not hear of a union between them. Instead she wants Sophie to marry Armand, the conceited son of Prefect Hugon. To make matters worse, Paul, the good boy, unexpectedly turns into a revolutionary, who defends the Republic on the barricades against Louis Napoléon's coup. Not being one of the victors, Paul is forced into exile. Will Sophie finally yield and accept the established order or will she react in her usual rebellious way and follow the one she loves ?

一位巴黎博物馆馆长认为他的妻子对他不忠，于是在他桌上的盒子里放了一支有毒的香烟，从而让机会决定他的死亡时刻。

奇怪的小川攝製組吸引了美國導演芭芭拉．漢默的注意，她希望呈現攝製組對政治抱負的深思，和社運藝文團體的兩性互動。在這部奇特的作品中，為表現攝製組成員的個性，小川電影的影像不時穿插著，就像是他們的家庭影帶。漢默以女權者、外國人、導演的身分，選擇了不與對象站在一起的方式「解構」小川紳介。

Drama about a happily married career woman who falls victim to a management power play involving sexual harassment by her sports-equipment company's in-house lawyer.