Hungarian director Zsófia Szilágyi discusses her impressive feature debut One Day, avoiding cliches while telling a typical story, fighting over the film’s sound design, and working with child actors.
Women 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.
Establishing Shots: Rebecca Addelman on her marriage drama, Paper Year
Rebecca Addelman discusses Paper Year, fictionalising her first marriage into her feature debut, which took years of rewrites, great casting, and generous collaboration.
Growing up and growing apart: Coming of age in Leave No Trace
In this essay, Gillie Collins explores how Leave No Trace 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. This is the third article in our Special Issue on Leave No Trace, which is now available as an ebook.
Debra Granik: ‘It is dangerous to tell a story with no villain’
In this interview, 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 collaboration with her director of photography and lead actors. This is the first article in our Special Issue on Leave No Trace, which is now available as […]
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 of #MeToo.
Beatrice Behn on The Artist and the Pervert: ‘BDSM is a more conscious way of living’
The Artist and the Pervert directors Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt on making a documentary that treats BDSM with good humour and respect.