Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam.
Directed by Women
Explore films by directors who identify as women.
Berlinale Review: A girl wakes up to misogyny inSummer Blur
Han Shuai’s feature debut, Summer Blur, follows thirteeen-year-old Guo in a hot summer in Wuhan where everyone seems to be exploiting women.
Berlinale Review: Alice Diop documents the Paris suburbs in Nous
Alice Diop’s documentary Nous is a portrait of Paris, told through intimate vignettes of citizens living in the suburbs.
Highlights from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021
Lindsay Pugh runs down the best of Final Girls Berlin 2021, from Your Monster to Time of Moulting to The Returned.
IFFR Review: Aristocrats compares two women’s freedom in class-conscious Tokyo
Yukiko Sode’s Aristocrats, which world premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), follows two Tokyo women of different social classes who are both romantically connected to the same man.
Sundance Review: Navigating consent in Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure
Ninja Thyberg’s LA porn drama Pleasure is an authentic, scathing look at an industry with little regard for boundaries or consent.