Debra Granik's film uses the unusual story of a father and daughter living in the woods to tell the classic coming-of-age narrative of parent-child separation. …
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Female Directors
In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
Debra Granik: ‘It is dangerous to tell a story with no villain’
Director Debra Granik discusses what made her want to turn this story into a film, her non-judgmental outlook on her characters, her research process, and her …
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Tonie Marshall: ‘Equality at work won’t happen naturally.’
Tonie Marshall discusses workplace sexism as she observed it for her film Numéro Une, and the possibilities for feminism after Harvey Weinstein and in the wake …
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Beatrice Behn: ‘BDSM is a more conscious way of living’
The Artist and the Pervert directors Behn and René Gebhardt on making a documentary that doesn't other BDSM, but treats it with good humour and respect. …
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Haigh and Reichardt are modernizing the western
Andrew Haigh's Lean on Pete shares DNA with the films of Kelly Reichardt: both filmmakers deromanticize tired western tropes. This is the fifth feature in our …
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‘It’s part of my life, not a horror film’: Jennifer Fox on The Tale
Jennifer Fox discusses The Tale, which tells of her own experience as a woman in her forties who finds herself flooded with long-buried memories of the abuse …
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The Tale: Comfortable stories mask uncomfortable truths
In The Tale, the semi-autobiographical narrative debut from Jennifer Fox, the character Jennifer’s process of sifting through and revisiting past memories is …
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HotDocs interview: Meet the women of the ISIS resistance
Alba Sotorra on her documentary Commander Arian, which follows a group of Syrian women fighting against ISIS. …
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Laura Nix: ‘They’re trying to literally save where they live’
Nix discusses her documentary Inventing Tomorrow, which follows a diverse group of students at a science fair, all of whom are working on projects to benefit …
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Léonor Serraille on Jeune Femme, her anti-Frances Ha
Serraille discusses her feature debut Jeune Femme, a portrait of a complicated, impulsive young woman and her process of self-reinvention. …
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