Films Directed by Women

Playfully avant-garde and exhibiting an intriguing sense of humor, PIZZAS offers a puzzle of widescreen imagery, brash pop moments, and road movie ambience. Pakalnina, Latvia’s best-known director, spun this cryptic but airy comedy/tragedy from a news item about two 18-year-old fast-food workers who robbed their employer’s safe and split. (Gene Siskel Film Center)

安东劫机到里加，因为看中地名用‘R’开头，而且比起其他东欧国家，拉脱维亚对劫机者会像个人。小孩子汤美先做人质，再做了安东的朋友。安东的赎金，还包括汤美的朱古力和CD。劫机的子弹，误中附近养蜂人的蜂窝，养蜂人的一头牛走失了。牛儿寻家的路上，引出更多故事：全国单车赛爆出吸毒丑闻，警察发现一个母亲无牌驾驶运白兔。拉脱维亚一幅人物卷轴图，或交叉、或平衡发展，解构、拼合出该国精神面貌。风格化的镜头，像谜一样...

An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.

A film about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached a high level of development – oil is being retrieved from subterranean depths, transported to processing plants, turned into plastic, transported to another plant, where it acquires the shape of a spoon, transported to convenience stores, where we buy it, and is then soon tossed into the trash. In other words, this is a film about the efforts put into making a spoon that can be thrown away so effortlessly.

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countries and crosses 3 different borders.

Lithuanian photographer, the legend of Soviet Sixties' generation Vitas Luckus tragically passed away in 1987. Yet the life and times of the talented rebel still impassion and lead us to a journey questioning why, at all times, we are wary of those who are really free.

It was the year 1984 when a group of architects decided to organize a one night music band as a New Year's party joke in Kaunas, Lithuania. The joke proved to be so good that rumors about the new exciting rock band spread from lips to lips and soon their intellectual circus grew into the Rock Marches - massive events involving thousands of people - that transformed into the big meetings for Lithuanian Independence later named the Singing Revolution. This is the story about the people who raised their independence with the smiles and songs regardless of the danger of the situation.

Based on a Lithuanian writer’s novel “Breathing Into Marble” the film focuses on the challenges of a modern family. It is a romantic ballad with the plot of a thriller. Izabele and Liudas – itellectuals living in a homestead near a big city and raising the son, Gailius, who has a case of epilepsy and is smarter than most children his age. Izabele convinces her husband to adopt a six-year-old boy who is unable to put down roots in this new family and always fights for mother’s attention. Director Giedrė Beinoriūtė speaks about relationships, invisible bonds connecting our lives and responsibility for each other.

Conversations On Serious Topics is a film without exterior action, props, landscapes or special effects. Its main characters are children and teenagers with a special ability to describe the surrounding world. Intimate conversations with them reveal the picture of the modern world -- at times melancholic, at times comical, at times dramatic. Shot in a minimalist fashion, the film raises questions about loneliness, love, God, the world and human relations. "The world is people." "Don't you believe in God? I can teach you how to start believing..."

入围第66届柏林电影节酷儿单元，获第64届圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节(2016)地平线大奖 。小女孩rara生活在一个LGBT家庭，她同时拥有两个母亲，只有13岁的她一直感觉很幸福，直到亲生父亲的试图得到她的抚养权，事情开始发生了变化。

这部电影围绕肥皂剧的概念展开。 它的结构基于这样的假设：智利的现实不存在，而是肥皂剧的合奏。

故事以十八世紀末葉爲背景，寫兩個身份神秘的人之經歷:一個身世不明的孤兒和負責照顧他,同樣不知身份的意大利裔年輕保母。由羅馬到巴黎，里斯本到倫敦，再由帕爾馬到威尼斯。為了不明的原因，沿途都有一個可疑的卡拉布里亞人和一個情緒不安的紅衣主教在暗處跟着他們。隨着他們腳蹤的帶領讓我們發現了梵蒂岡不為人知的陰謀；足以致命的激情所帶來的痛苦；血腥的決鬥，還有凡爾賽宮的貴族如何互相戲謔嘲弄，以及正進行得如火如荼的法國大革命。

What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin America?

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.

1985 film directed by Valeria Sarmiento

1991 film by Valeria Sarmiento

1998 film by Valeria Sarmiento

　　妻子过世后，文学教授因悲伤而郁郁寡欢。 他试图维持日常生活，却徒劳地困在死亡的阴影里。 不论昼夜，妻子的形影始终萦绕不去;破碎难分的意识，如同梦游者或鬼魂般，穿梭于拼贴跳跃的叙事中，在理智边缘徘徊。 眼前看似稳固的事物逐渐淡去，记忆与现实之间的界线越来越模糊......。