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Directed by Women

Explore films by directors who identify as women.

Alex Heeney / December 11, 2022

Quick Thoughts Film Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter

Joanna Hogg’s film The Eternal Daughter is an unexpected sequel to her Souvenir duology: a ghost story exploring the creative process and a mother-daughter relationship.

Alex Heeney / November 4, 2022

TIFF Review: The Swearing Jar is an existential crisis film with two romances

Lindsay Mackay’s second feature film, The Swearing Jar, is an existential crisis film with two romances.

Alex Heeney / October 12, 2022

Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review

Sinéad O’Shea’s Pray for Our Sinners is a heart-wrenching and important documentary about the quiet resistance to Catholic rule in Ireland.

Alex Heeney / September 16, 2022

Stellar Film Review: It’s the end of the world and the Indigenous leads feel fine

Darlene Naponse’s new film Stellar is about two Indigenous strangers displaced from their land, who meet at a bar on the night the world may be ending.

Alex Heeney / September 1, 2022

Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy

In Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling, China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses most of her agency along the way.

Alex Heeney / June 17, 2022

Quick Thoughts: Violeta Salama’s sensitive Alegría at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

Violeta Salama’s warm and sensitive feature debut, Alegría, is exactly the kind of film you look for at a Jewish Film Festival: a travelogue and a story of culture, religion, and family.

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