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Directed by Women

Explore films by directors who identify as women.

Things to Come

Elena Lazic / February 12, 2016

Berlinale 2016 preview: a strong year for women on both sides of the camera

Elena Lazic, our Berlinale correspondent, takes a look at the most exciting films in the festival, including films directed by and about women, and films from Canada, France, and ex-Yugoslavia countries.

Fish Tank

Gillie Collins / February 8, 2016

Landscape and limbo in Fish Tank

In Fish Tank, physical boundaries stand for social boundaries — the constraints imposed by gender and class and the walls we build for self-protection

Sonita, 2016 San Francisco Film Festival

Alex Heeney / January 28, 2016

Sonita and Sand Storm at Sundance: when the patriarchy looks like your mother

Both films explore how empowered women function within a patriarchal society. They pose the question, can you defeat the patriarchy simply by exercising agency?

Alex Heeney / January 25, 2016

NUTS! and foreveryone.net: The visionary and the charlatan

The Sundance documentaries foreveryone.net and NUTS! each chronicle the scientific achievements and self-mythologizing of two very different men.

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