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Directed by Women

Explore films by directors who identify as women.

Close-Knit

Elena Lazic / April 11, 2017

Review: Close-Knit marks an important milestone for Japanese LGBTQ cinema

Naoko Ogigami’s Close-Knit is a charming, if disappointingly conservative, family drama about a girl who finds herself being raised by a transgender woman.

Raw, Julia Ducournau

Mary Angela Rowe / March 10, 2017

Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror

Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.

Alex Heeney / January 23, 2017

Protecting the land: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE

Two documentaries screening in Sundance’s New Climate program — Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman and RISE — shed light on projects to protect land in the U.S. and the lasting effects of colonialism.

13th, Ava DuVernay

Alex Heeney / October 20, 2016

Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc

Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay’s 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really abolished without ever resorting to preaching.

Fien Troch, Home, AFI Fest 2016, Must-See AFI

Alex Heeney / October 5, 2016

Best of TIFF16: Fien Troch’s Home

In Home, teachers and authority figures don’t skip a beat before upbraiding the teenagers in their charge, but writer-director Fien Troch asks us to empathize first and judge second.

Jeffrey, TIFF Dropbox Award

Elena Lazic / September 27, 2016

Yanillys Perez’ TIFF16 Dropbox Award Winner Jeffrey

Yanillys Perez’ feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist voiceover with a social realist approach to its optimistic, clear-eyed, and poetic subject: Jeffrey, a charming and driven 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a famous reggaeton & dembow singer.

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