Films Directed by Women

2000 film by Claudine Bories

documentary about Indianara Siqueira

Following the trail of Jandira, a young woman who lost her life after undergoing an illegal abortion, this film provides a critical look into the paradox of Brazilian sexuality and the rise of conservatism and religion, such as radical evangelism, which penetrates the government itself and bodes a dark future for women's and LGBT rights in the country.

Portrait poétique et politique d’une banlieue ouvrière en mutation, De Cendres et de Braises nous invite à écouter les paroles des habitants des cités des Mureaux, près de l’usine Renault-Flins. Qu’elles soient douces, révoltées ou chantées, au pied des tours de la cité, à l’entrée de l’usine ou à côté d’un feu, celles-ci nous font traverser la nuit jusqu’à ce qu’un nouveau jour se lève sur d’autres lendemains possibles.

A poetic documentary about life in a war-torn Chechen village, with the cemetery as its symbolic focal point. The village lives and breathes in unison. The Chechen gravediggers are always busy. Death is an everyday visitor. It does not even matter that yet another war has ended. The people live stuck in a circle of vengeance. They also gather into circles to chant prayers to God. Only the cows are grazing calmly next to the cemetery and the children are happily going about their business. The Chechens' parting words to one another are, "May you come back free!"

政治权力机制如何直接影响一国居民的生活？ 在寻找这个难题的答案时，这部电影文章着眼于一个俄罗斯小工业城市的日常生活，揭示了渗透到整个意识形态中的危险性和潜伏性。

The guided tours in the Reichstag building are well attended; there’s lots of laughter at the simulated vote on a bill. At the Bundestag’s “Infomobile” in Dresden, a citizen complains that the government is out of touch with the people. SPD parliamentarians attend a workshop to practise strategies for dealing with right-wing populist topics. A crowd chants: close the borders! Journalists from the taz and Bild-Zeitung newspapers discuss the issues of the day. An editorial team from TV station MDR produces a report entitled “Attack on Democracy – the New Right.”

2015 documentary film directed by Marie Wilke

Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in Argentina while the other one will try to come a step closer to the ocean. She travels to the Caribbean and the foreign makes her vulnerable. Then, the land is out of sight. On a sailing vessel she crosses the Atlantic Ocean. One wave follows the other, they never resemble. Thoughts go astray, time leaves the beaten track and the swell lulls to deep sleep. The sea takes over the narration. And when the other one reappears in it, the wind is still in her hair while the ground beneath her feet is solid. She returns and the one of them could ask: "Have you changed?

This soulful documentary illuminates the hell-and- back life of the late, great L.A. alto sax legend Frank Morgan. A prodigy who was acclaimed as the natural heir to his bebop mentor, Charlie Parker, Morgan derailed his career with heroin, which led him into a life of crime. After decades in prison, he made an astonishing comeback, leaving behind recordings of deep, melancholy beauty. Framed by a tribute concert held in San Quentin, where Morgan’s 19-year-old Asian-American protégé, Grace Kelly, performs a heart-stopping version of “Over the Rainbow,” N.C. Heikin’s film is filled with revealing interviews with the colleagues, lovers, family and wives who accompanied Morgan on his long and rocky journey to redemption.

北朝鲜是世界上最孤立的国家之一。将近60年的时间里，北朝鲜被极权掌控着几乎所有进出这个国家的信息。最近的2个领导人受到了狂热的崇拜：第一个，金日成，现在是他的儿子，金正日。在金正日的46岁生日时，一种嫁接的红色海棠花被命名为金正日花，象征着智慧，爱，正义与和平。这部影片取名于这种崇高的花朵并讲述了北朝鲜大量的隐蔽战俘集中营幸存者的不同寻常的故事。他们现在住在南朝鲜，并在那里接受了访问，他们的经历用北朝鲜的电影宣传素材和原始镜头所点缀，阐述了一个被监视的人的日常生活，并且他的每一个念头都会带来官方的惩罚。这是一个没有公正与和平的地方。NC Heikin第一次作为纪录片导演，她的舞蹈和表演背景影响了她对现代社会的折磨与对复原的寻求的再现。这远远不是一个冗长的故事，也不是一个简单的对政府行为的控诉，金正日花是一个完全原始的，并对人类能承受的极限带有着极端的启发性，但也始终带出了对美好未来的向往。

1928 German film directed by Wolfgang Neff

The long dead ancestress of a noble family returns to haunt her last two remaining descendants. She can not rest until the entire family line has passed away. When she reappears, the household knows it is an ill omen. The patriarch of the family is old, and without a son. He is eager for his daughter to marry. She has her eye on a handsome young nobleman named Jaromir, but he isn't quite who he appears to be. This may be the opportunity the restless spirit has been waiting for for so long...

The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".

1927 film by Luise Fleck

When their relatives from the countryside miss the train to their wedding anniversary, Lawyer Dr. Helwing and his wife Dolly decide to go out together. Meanwhile, infamous burglar "Monokel-Fredy" enters the Helwing villa with some of his cronies, only to find out that the relatives have arrived after all.

Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.

1937 film by Luise Fleck, Jacob Fleck

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