Films Directed by Women

Seven girls start a cult where each of them must embody one of the seven deadly sins. They realize there's more to their religious town after they go missing, one by one.

改编自佐木隆三的伊藤整文学奖小说《身分帐》，以真实人物为原型，由日本著名演员役所广司出演，讲述一名前黑社会帮派分子因杀人罪被判入狱，在服刑13年后获释重返社会，发誓努力融入新的生活，然而当他被弹射到这个并不了解的美好新世界，根深蒂固的黑帮思维以及对有序社会体系语法的缺失，使他的生活反而越发变得格格不入…师从是枝裕和的西川美和导演新作以人性关怀打量个体的痛苦与希望，描绘出当代日本社会细致入微的生活壁画。

冬日，北方求学的女大学生赵木子回杭州过春节。父亲组建了新的家庭，同父异母的妹妹刚上小学一年级。母亲交往着一个日本男友，爱得像个少年。一次送妹妹上学，赵木子偶遇另一位家长。他像极了一位故友，赵木子一时恍惚。那段曾经无法定义的关系，如今依旧如幻觉般存在。恰逢现任男友来杭探望，忽然间，赵木子在这个熟悉、陌生、不断变迁中的故乡里游荡，寻找自处的方式。新一年很快又要开始了，一切又好像没有发生过一样。

An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can't find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their families, friends and the land where they live. The issue is time. The time they don't actually have (studies, families, distant houses) and the time of their own life - being so young they are subject to what that life brought upon them, that's when the "story" of the film begins, therefore linked to a life that until then was not chosen by them. This is one reason, which leads to a runaway process. Escape in the possible return to this world.

Roberto is one of those men to whom simulation has become the greatest art. He is an unmoved, inscrutable, mysterious man. But the truth is that Robert feels an intimate, deep tedium. The boredom of those who have already exhausted all the pleasures of life. The only thing still surprising him is the fact that nothing surprises him anymore. One evening he has an overwhelming encounter with a woman. For his own bewilderment, he discovers the sublime horrors in which the woman has sank.

在文明與野蠻對峙的時代，與特倫特主教爭戰多年的將軍，遠赴葡萄牙娶妻生子後，急不及待重返戰場。妻子靜守孤堡十一年，歸來是身心俱殘的丈夫，在漫天流言中，死亡在床榻悄然等候？

Freely based on Gide ('Paludes') and Hawthorne ('Wakefield'), this is a film about a writer who never wrote anything and who blows at nightfall the breath of frost. The poem by Carlos Queiroz to which the above sentences belong is not cited in 'O som da Terra a Tremer', but the atmosphere is that, between written letters never received. Fiction within fiction, stories within stories, like those Chinese boxes in which there is always one inside another. Or the two margins of the same river, always being lateral.

Joáo Bénard da Costa, director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then]. Two humanists of different philosophical backgrounds, both with their long, entire lives dedicated to culture in general (music, painting, literature) and to film in particular, discuss freely, sometimes haltingly, the director's power as a creator or a magician, the philosophy beyond particular scenes in classic movies, film technique, the importance of color, sound and music to films, art versus entertainment, and much more. Their talk takes place in a museum room, seating in front of "The Annunciation" (a 1510 oil painting by João Vaz, a Portuguese artist), which eventually leads to a discussion of 'Leonardo da Vinci', and the relationship between a trend-setter master and his disciples.

A story about art and educated men, and how their art and culture reveal themselves useless in the face of the harsh realities of the 20th century life.

Two film directors and a writer are in Portugal for an expedition through various images, moments from the history of Western allegorical representation. The writer is Jean-Louis Schefer, and this tale encapsulates his life’s mission. What is the connection between the danses macabres of the dying days of the Middle Ages, Hieronymus Bosch’ Temptation of St Anthony, a landscape by Fragonard and the prehistoric rock engravings of Foz-Côa? There is no connection, Schefer admits from the start, save for the arbitrariness of taste. No scholarly connection, but rather a relationship, lively and fleeting, a friendly conversation resumed at each stopping point of this journey reflecting on pictures and what they retain
of history. Schefer talks a lot; his language is fluent, clear and focused. His two friends say little, listening attentively, reviving the conversation from time to time. Does this make it a monologue in disguise? Yes, because this film peopled by friendship conceals the portrait of a thinker and writer as only cinema can: an intellect in action, a way of being alone or in company, leading the philosophical conversation, an entire life a ected by pictures, compact in front of a few figurative objects. And no, because the conversation is woven between Schefer’s words, Rita Azevedo Gomes’ dramatisation and Pierre Léon’s editing, and the film, without another word, unfurls another idea that amplifies, discusses and surpasses the writer’s thought. Passion for painting haunts the composition of every shot, which it frames like a picture in a museum or a Portuguese landscape. The editing punctuates the journey of a micro-history of cinema in playful contrast to the erudite discourse. As Schefer says of danses macabres, “It moves, it’s liquid and solid at the same time, it moves forward towards nothing, into nothing. It’s history, carrying o the living”. (C.N.)

Jorge de Sena was forced to leave his country. First he moved to Brazil, and later to the USA. He never returned to Portugal. During his 20-year-long exile, he kept an epistolary correspondence with Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. These letters are a testimony of the profound friendship between the two poets, letters of longing and of desire to “fill years of distance with hours of conversation”. Through excerpts and verses, a dialog is established, revealing their divergent opinions but mostly their strong bond, and their efforts to preserve it until their last breaths.

2002 film by Rita Azevedo Gomes

故事发生在位于阿尔巴尼亚的古老山区中，在当地，依然流传着关于婚姻和男女关系的非常古老的规则。少女汉娜（阿尔芭·洛瓦赫 Alba Rohrwacher 饰）生于斯长于斯，看尽了当地妇女艰辛的生存状态，特立独行的汉娜默默发誓，绝不嫁人从此成为操劳家务的奴仆。
于是，依照当地的律法，汉娜许下了诺言，一辈子守身如玉，从此，在所有人的眼中，她不再是一名女性，同时也不再享受身为女性的所拥有的权利。就这样，汉娜被赐予了男名“马克”以及一把匕首，放逐至荒郊野岭，自生自灭。一晃眼十年过去，坚强的汉娜依旧形单影只，但这一次，她再度做出了惊人的选择——前往大都市米兰，寻找自己的姐姐。

The Love Europe Project is a collection of 9 short films by various directors from different European countries.

在经历过创伤后，Inés患上了睡眠障碍，并被恶梦缠身。梦寐以求的人物想占有她的身体吗？ Natalia Meta制作的高度原创的心理性惊悚片。

硬汉探长查韦斯（Demián Bichir 饰）接手调查布宜诺斯艾利斯一桩凶杀案，死者是同性恋且出身名门。因为发现死者生前的同性恋人凯文（Carlos Casella 饰）存在嫌疑，查韦斯从分区警局征调来一位刚入行的小警员哥麦斯（Chino Darin 饰），指示后者扮演同志去勾引凯文。帅气青涩的哥麦斯很快收获犯罪嫌疑人的芳心，然而旁观整个卧底行动的查韦斯却越来越不是滋味。查韦斯探长并不知道，他的计划早已被别人将计就计......

Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi travels across the United States chronicling the unprecedented social and political upheaval of 2020 as it unfolds. From political rallies, environmental protests, Black Lives Matter marches and the still-developing Covid-19 crisis, Americans on both sides of the political divide react to events that have defined this turbulent year.

聚焦活跃在1970年代的美国连环杀手、强奸犯——“金州杀手”。他犯下至少50起入室强奸、13起谋杀，一直隐藏在黑暗中。2018年，前警察Joseph James DeAngelo被起诉，疑为这名杀手。剧名来自金州杀手威胁一名受害者的话：“你将永远开不了口，而我将消失在黑暗中。”
本剧改编自作家Michelle McNamara对金州杀手的同名纪实调查书。

The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in jeopardy.

爱莎的母性不是一种明显的本能，而是一直处于一种持续挣扎的状态。她在很年轻的时候就成为了母亲，这也深深地影响着她和处于青春期女儿的关系。尽管爱莎和17岁女儿维卡住在一起，但实际上她们很少与彼此互动。爱莎把大部分精力投入到她的护士工作之中，而维卡则常常与朋友们在溜冰公园溜达。随着维卡健康状况的迅速恶化，两人的日常生活被打乱。爱莎不得不走入维卡的生活，成为一个真正的母亲。维卡的病成了一个契机，让这个小家庭里的爱得以呈现。入围纽约翠贝卡电影节，荣获最佳女演员和最佳摄影奖。