Isabel Sandoval's Lingua Franca patiently observes the day-to-day life of a trans, undocumented Filipina immigrant living in Trump's America.Actor-director …
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Directed by Women
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Correspondencia is a rare dialogue between filmmakers
Carla Simón’s and Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s shortform collaboration, Correspondencia (Correspondences), is a thrillingly urgent series of video letters. Read …
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Babyteeth is a cancer story about a teen girl’s lust for life
Babyteeth is a quirky, surprising, and ultimately very moving film about teenage terminal illness that is less a wistful tearjerker than it is a coming-of-age …
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Mirrah Foulkes’s revisionist Judy and Punch
In Judy and Punch, Mirrah Foulkes wrangles with the legacy of a beloved British cultural institution, offering a revisionist, feminist take on the origins of …
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Werewolf (2016) is a film about getting clean as a couple
Ashley McKenzie's 2016 film Werewolf was one of the most exciting directorial debuts of the 2010s. As McKenzie finishes her second feature during lockdown, …
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Modern westerns: Andrew Haigh and Kelly Reichardt are deromanticizing the west
Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete shares DNA with Kelly Reichardt's westerns (e.g. Wendy and Lucy): both filmmakers are making modern westerns that deromanticize …
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