Films Directed by Women

Filmmaker/actress Amy Lynn Best assembles a group of B-movie actresses for a night of discussion of their careers in independent cinema.

DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted 'Black Lightning' Patrick's anti-cult crusade. His practice of 'deprogramming', also known as 'reverse brainwashing', started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from 'cults'.
- Written by Eyesteel Film
泰德帕德里克是美国的一位反邪教人士，他首创“解洗脑”程序，又被称为“反洗脑”，从七十年代开始，一直致力于为被邪教洗脑的孩子、年轻人进行“解洗脑”，让他们走出邪教的牢笼，找回自己。
美国六七十年代各地诞生多个以信仰为幕布、实为邪教组织的宗教团体，吸引了大堆当时独特的社会背景下对人生迷茫、追求精神归宿的年轻人投身宗教。很多宗教头目极富个人魅力、鼓吹本领一流，然而很多宗教有着严苛、奇特的信条，更有不少头目以宗教之名敛财、甚至犯罪。这些宗教头领让年轻人离开家庭，与社会割裂，彰显自己的宗教理想和追求。社会上也频频爆发邪教事件，包括集体自杀、谋杀等等。
泰德帕德里克就是在这样的社会背景之下开始解洗脑工作。许多因为孩子投身邪教而忧心忡忡的父母寻求泰德帕德里克的帮助，媒体也赋予他“黑色闪电”“邪教死对头”的称号。尽管如此，泰德的工作方式为他引来许多争议。在解洗脑过程中，他运用多种手段，包括绑架、限制人身自由、辱骂、暴力等等，这也让他不断惹来官司（尤其是科学教派），几度入狱。但他对自己的事业坚信不疑，数十年坚持在反洗脑前线。
本片从泰德帕德里克、曾被他进行解洗脑的人、家长、邪教研究专家等等受访者的角度，描述了帕德里克的解洗脑人生。

与男友了太厮守在一起的电影系女大学生小春（満島ひかり 饰），却并未感到些许的幸福。她和男友之间鲜少交流，仿佛只有性的存在，彼此隔膜渐渐加深。偶然机缘，木讷的小春结识了美丽的女孩里子（中村映里子 饰）。里子在一家义肢事务所工作，她性格张扬，敢爱敢恨，与小春形成鲜明的对比。不过互补的性格也让她们相互吸引，继而成为朋友。与了太的关系日渐紧张，小春的天平开始偏向了里子这边。两个女孩的爱情故事就此上演……
本片根据漫画家桜沢エリカ的同名原著改编，是安藤モモ子的导演处女作。安藤本身为著名演员、导演奥田瑛二的长女，奥田也在片中出演了一个只露出背影的角色。

1939 年夏天，13 岁的玛丽和父母一起去阿维尼翁附近的一个小镇看望祖父母。玛丽发现了自己的女性气质，并爱上了一位年轻的犹太医生，但他更喜欢玛丽的母亲伊娃。

2002 Swedish drama film directed by Alexandra-Therese Keining

49岁的Nicole(Karin Viard饰)怀孕了，这到底是好事还是坏事？全家上下都乱套了......

1)曾经做过落跑新娘的婚礼策划师西泽薰子（中村友理 饰），其男朋友池江真彦（永山たかし 饰）是对婚姻制度持否定态度的超级洁癖，他们的爱情将何去何从？

大学时代，安德鲁（乔舒华·莱纳德 Joshua Leonard 饰）和本（马克·杜普拉斯 Mark Duplass 饰）是学校里的叛逆分子，在那些疯狂的日子里，正是本和安德鲁之间的友情让一切记忆变得闪闪发光。毕业后，本成家立业，过起了安定而平静的生活，可安德鲁却选择了与之相反的人生道路，成为了一名街头艺术家，两人渐渐淡漠了来往。
时隔多年，安德鲁的突然出现让本欣喜若狂，在重叙旧事之间，两人的内心里都充满了感触。对于本的现状，安德鲁很是瞧不起，他带着本参加了一个疯狂的聚会。在聚会里，拍一部色情艺术电影成为了众人议论的主题，他们决定带着这部电影参加艺术节。很快，影片的两个主演就确定下来了，他们竟然是安德鲁和本！而在一番不堪回首的折腾之后，两人均发现，他们之间的友情开始变质了。

大学同学的一对年轻夫妇，他们的生活历经坎坷，六年之痒他们能否度过。面对丈夫的出轨她又该如何面对！生活的各种写照！看他们如何演绎六年之痒！

小有名气的日本摄影师八神千（向井理 饰）被妹妹铃爱（桐谷美铃 饰）硬拉到浪漫之都法国巴黎，谁知刚刚抵达没多久，千便被妹妹独自扔在塞纳河畔。正在焦虑之际，千的护照又意外被一名日裔女子踩破，而对方也因此折断了高跟鞋的后跟。对方名叫敕使河原葵（中山美穗 饰），是当地一份日文免费报纸的编辑。在葵的帮助下，千找到了大使馆和所住的酒店。与此同时，铃爱也见到久违的恋人——为了梦想独自在巴黎打拼的画家阿汉（绫野刚 饰）。短短三天的异国旅行，千与葵相识相知，彼此产生好感；铃爱在久别的欢愉过后，亦将面对远距离爱情的诸多考验。
仿佛恒久不变的埃菲尔铁塔，默默注视着这两对男女的相见与离别……

32岁的夏洛特(Claes Bang饰)刚与相处多年的男友分手，搬到了一个小城安家落户，开了一家美容沙龙。由于心底深处难以名状的落寞，夏洛特一直不与人交流，常常将不怀好意的年轻男子带回家，极尽捉弄之能事。一天，夏洛特结识了住在楼下的女人——腼腆的维罗妮卡(Joan Bentsen)。然后，维罗尼卡却有着一个不为人知的秘密。

1949 film by Jacqueline Audry

In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating pool and a debilitating fear of top-sheets, all in between X-Files marathons. Comically unsuccessful in love over the course the year, including five half-hearted relationships with astoundingly self-centered men, Izzy resigns herself to the support of her mother and sister, who are struggling with their own relationship problems. Seeing herself in them, Izzy gradually gains the confidence to be honest and vulnerable.

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.

Laura's parents divorced when she was eight. Now, at thirteen, she lives with her mother, her stepfather, two stepbrothers, a stepsister, and a half-brother. She used to visit her father, stepmother (third stepmother) and half-sister, but now *another* divorce is in the works, so Laura visits her father and his pregnant girlfriend -- who's only six years older than she is. Who should she feel loyalty to? And is it any wonder she wants to run away from home?
Written by Susan C. Mitchell {susanm@indirect.com}
If you think your family is messed up, then you better take look at Laura Chartoff's life. Her parents divorced when she was 8, following both of them remarrying. Living with her mother, Laura endures her materialistic step-father Keith, her vain step-sister Corrine, her militarily obsessed step-brother Kurt, and her far too serious/far too smart half brother Sam. Laura's father is no help, currently the middle of a divorce with his wife Barbara and barely seeing his little daughter Jessie due to the fact that his mistress Stephanie is about to have twins. The only relative Laura gets along with is Keith's eldest son Josh, so when her relatives becomes too much for the 13 year old to handle, Laura runs away to his cabin. When the entire clan comes to track her down, she runs again, thinking her step-brother betrayed her. While her family finds common ground in their worry over her, Laura experiences life on her own and realizes her family may not be so bad.
Written by Max Vaughn

本纪录片发行于2015年。聚焦1966至1971年，20世纪第二波女性运动浪潮，各流派女权主义为争取女性权利愤怒发声。纪录片包含了不同种族、性取向的女性团体和妇女运动的兴起。女权主义者们在改变社会传统观念的同时，也在反省，进步。

一部以一群爱惹麻烦的青少年为中心的黑色青春电影。在加利福尼亚的帕罗奥图这座小镇上，有寻爱的姑娘，有惹麻烦的男孩，也有两者兼顾的男人，而弗兰科便是这位“左右逢源”的男人，他在片中不但与年轻的罗伯茨之间有千丝万缕的情爱联系，也会参与年轻人的荒唐事……

贾斯汀（加朗斯·莫里利尔 Garance Marillier 饰）生长在一个素食主义家庭之中，严格遵守着饮食上的戒律，从未尝过荤腥。贾斯汀进入了一间兽医学校就读，作为校园里的“菜鸟”，她受到了来自老生们的无情的压榨和排挤，森严的等级制度让贾斯汀倍感压抑，而她和亦在这里就读的姐姐埃里克西亚（艾拉·朗夫Ella Rumpf 饰）之间的关系也十分紧张。
没有了父母的管制，贾斯汀决定尝一尝肉的滋味，然而随着时间的推移，她渐渐发现熟肉已经无法再满足她，她的内心里滋生出了对生肉和鲜血的渴望。这日益强烈的渴望折磨着贾斯汀，而埃里克西亚对于妹妹的异样竟然毫无意外。一场意外中，埃里克西亚的手指被剪刀剪下，面对着眼前的断指，贾斯汀再也无法压抑内心的欲望。

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, taking a photo was a crime. After the regime fell from power in 2001, a fledgling free press emerged and a photography revolution was born. Now, as foreign troops and media withdraw, Afghanistan is left to stand on its own and so are its journalists. Set in a modern Afghanistan bursting with color and character, FRAME BY FRAME follows four Afghan photojournalists navigating a dangerous media landscape as they reframe Afghanistan for the world, and for themselves. Through cinema vérité, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects an audience with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.

When Body Image Activist Taryn Brumfitt posted an unconventional before-and-after photo in 2013 it was seen by more than 100 million people worldwide and sparked an international media frenzy. EMBRACE follows Taryn's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.