Rama Burshtein’s The Wedding Plan, her follow-up to Fill the Void, is another thoughtful exploration of women and marriage in Orthodox Jewish culture.
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.
That is not what I meant at all: Claire Denis’ Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
Opening the Director’s Fortnight this year, Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) is an often disarming but always exciting new film from the French master Claire Denis.
HotDocs Interview: Marie Clements chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement in musical doc The Road Forward
Métis/Dene filmmaker and playwright Marie Clements discusses her musical documentary, The Road Forward, which chronicles Canada’s Indigenous Civil Rights Movement.
Review: Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is a visual delight
Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a hospital’s halls like blood coursing through the veins.
HotDocs Interview: Kyoko Miyake talks Tokyo Idols and female objectification
Director Kyoko Miyake talks Tokyo Idols, how the girls stay safe, and how the inherent sexism in this subculture isn’t that different from life in the West.
HotDocs interview: Vaishali Sinha talks Ask the Sexpert and India’s answer to Dr. Sue
Ask the Sexpert follows Indian sex expert Dr. Watsa as he navigates the debate about sex education, his patients, and his fans, in this doc from Vaishali Sinha.