Québécois filmmaker Anne Émond talks about depicting suicide, family intimacy, and her hometown in her moving new film.
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.
Review: Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Chloë Zhao’s directorial debut “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” is a quiet, sensitive indigenous coming-of-age story set as high school graduation nears on the Pine Ridge Reserve.
3000 Nights explores motherhood behind bars
Mais Masri’s 3000 Nights was a highlight of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, a film by a female director that flew largely under-the-radar. Check out our coverage of other great films directed by women here. Mai Masri’s 3000 Nights shares some plot points with the TIFF audience-award-winner, Room: an unjustly imprisoned woman finds new hope and […]
Granny’s Dancing On The Table is a great debut
Easily the winner of the “most evocative title of the festival” award, “Granny’s Dancing on the Table” tells two stories: the present-day struggles of thirteen-year-old Eini (Bianca Engström) who lives alone with her abusive and religious father in rural Sweden, and Eini’s accounts of her grandmother’s (Karin Bertling) colorful adventures in decades past.
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) ends with a whimper
Éva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) finds a sweet romance in a tale of teenagers these days and their orgies. The film opens on a pubescents-gone-wild party in a small-town mansion in France. The camera pans around the room to reveal that couples are having sex in the open, people are sitting around naked, […]
TIFF15: Jennifer Peedom discusses her Everest doc Sherpa
Jennifer Peedom discusses the making of her terrific Everest doc, Sherpa, the first documentary to be told from the Sherpa’s perspective.