Films Directed by Women

After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a happier, healthier life. In the process, she captures the frustration, tedium and petty annoyances of a revolving-door relationship with the medical establishment, while portraying the complicated web of emotions that accompany any medical problem. With humor and honesty, The Odds of Recovery uses the filmmaker's medical history as a means to address a perennial human problem: the desire to avoid conflict and deny the need for radical change.

本片从一个12岁少女的视角，带出一个爱待在树屋、试图抗拒看性教育影片的女孩探索未知领域的成长过程。穿插当时的科学或教育影片片段，及20位女同志对年幼成长记事的回忆，拼凑出美国1960年代女同志的集体成长经验。本片大胆踏入一个无法实际再现的女同志异色历史，藉由多样媒材，反讽外在环境是如何自以为是地投射各种假设，并试图压抑刚开始萌芽的情欲样貌。本片不仅呈现出女同志成长记事的历史拼图，也为所有曾为女孩的女性所拍，为所有曾假想其过程的男性所摄。

Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive the slavery of solitude and impotent acceptance of what they can't change or embrace? This is the every day story of two women taking care of their sick man.

2017 film by Lidia Terki

Timid, wildly imaginative 13-year-old Gideonette de La Rey learns that the name she was given comes with it a horrible curse. After her father dies, Gideonette is paralyzed by fear and is sent to live on a farm in the forest with her grandparents where she befriends a young deaf boy who is “training” to become an astronaut and preparing to fly away in a Moonship that Gideonette’s grandfather had built.

Jimmy in Pienk is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation "mielie" farmer. Jimmy’s father suddenly dies in a freak accident, he is confronted by two loan sharks who come to collect what his father owes. Jimmy gathers the courage to leave his home and travel to Cape Town to seek help from his uncle, and he is not prepared for what awaits him.

In Lagos, Nigeria, Ebele Njoko has been running all his life. A search for acceptance and love from his family, has led him to recreate himself as Adrian Njoko, respected father, husband, and brother. Suddenly, Adrian’s past and secrets have caught up with him and his world soon begins to crumble as he frantically tries to control the growing ripple effect of a revelation. In coming to terms with his sexuality, Adrian is forced to choose between a compromised existence and the life that he would like to lead.

Everyone in the Osayande family worries about Isoken. Although she has what appears to be a perfect life - beautiful, successful and surrounded by great family and friends - Isoken is still unmarried at 34 which, in a culture obsessed with marriage, is serious cause for concern. Things come to a head at her youngest sister's wedding when her overbearing mother thrusts her into an orchestrated matchmaking with the ultimate Edo man, Osaze. Osaze is handsome, successful and from a good family, making him the perfect Nigerian husband material. But in an unexpected turn of events, Isoken meets Kevin who she finds herself falling in love with and he just might be what she truly wants in a partner. The only problem is, not only is he not an Edo man, he is Oyinbo (Caucasian). Isoken is a romantic dramedy that explores cultural expectations, racial stereotypes and the bonds that unite families in a touching, dramatic and comedic way.

NetFlix上架的尼日利亚影片。当阿达泽的父亲生病时，她与叔叔一起继续经营家族生意，并在男性主导的世界里证明自己。

一名叫作Soraya的卑贱女人向来遵守现代法律准则，而当她面对古代部落的规则时，发现自己站在了法律的错误边缘，试图拯救遭受残酷刑罚的另一位女性，却不幸被逮捕。她的孩子还在花园里毫不知情地玩耍，而唯一的救赎之路是向总统上诉。

ISIS的野蛮入侵让曾经平静的叙利亚乡村成了人间地狱，30岁的阿里安在这里率领她的娘子军与恐怖分子对抗。经过艰苦卓绝的战斗，她们解放了小城Kobane，阿里安付出了代价——她身中5发子弹，好在没有性命之虞，回家休养伤愈后又立刻重返战场。
这部纪录片记录了阿里安和战友们的战斗实景和前线生活状态，借此反映战争中女性的处境，以及她们强烈的自由意志。影片具有强烈的人道主义色彩和女性立场，镜头语言朴实有力，画面中的女战士们无比真实、鲜活，她们与残酷、激烈的战场氛围形成了强烈对比。

2015 film by Alba Sotorra

Khatera, a 23 year old Afghan woman, is a victim of sexual abuse from her father. She tells her story publicly on national TV, seeking punishment for her perpetrator and shedding light onto qiwan.cc the faulty Afghan judicial system.

1997 film by Tizuka Yamasaki

2000 film by Tizuka Yamasaki

2014 film by Tizuka Yamasaki

1983 film directed by Tizuka Yamasaki

日裔巴西女导演Tizuka Yamasaki的成名作，讲20世纪初日本移民在巴西的生活，片中能看出山崎受日本电影的影响，很多场景带明显的小津风格。80年嘎纳影展FIPRESCI奖。

Based on the book O Fantástico Mistério de Feiurinha, the story combines real world and fantasy, dream and determination, with a surprising end, even for a fairy tale. The movie shows the fight of the fairy tale characters, now adults, who come together to recover the fable of the Little Ugly Princess, a beautiful Princess with a strange name, which only makes sense for those who know her story. The problem is that children and adults have forgotten the story of the Little Ugly Princess, which is as wonderful as other major fables for children. Cinderella brings together other fairy tale characters to meet the writer who keeps, lost in a small notebook, the Little Ugly Princess story.

2010 film by Tizuka Yamasaki