Women Filmmakers
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Movie + 5 extrasMississippi Masala
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Mira Nair • 1991 • United States, Uganda
Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan SethThe vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair’s MISSISSIPPI MASALA, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Yea...
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1 seasonShort Films by Fronza Woods
1 season
Key works of the media-making movement that gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late 1970s and early ’80s, these revelatory, newly restored shorts by trailblazing filmmaker Fronza Woods are no less impactful today. In KILLING TIME, Woods offers a wry...
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1 seasonShort Films by Mira Nair
1 season
Hailed for her vibrant explorations of culture clash and connection in films like MONSOON WEDDING and MISSISSIPPI MASALA, Indian American auteur Mira Nair has pursued an equally distinguished career as a director of short films that further explore the ways in which deep-rooted cultural tradition...
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1 seasonDirected by Larisa Shepitko
1 season
Though her name is now unjustly obscure, Larisa Shepitko was one of the boldest, most renowned filmmakers of the Soviet era. In her tragically short career, the Ukrainian-born auteur left behind only a handful of films—including the psychologically charged feminist character study WINGS and the s...
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1 seasonShort Films by Sophy Romvari
1 season
Toronto-based filmmaker Sophy Romvari’s intimate, essayistic shorts muse on family, grief, femininity, and humans’ relationships with animals, often with exquisitely touching vulnerability. Deeply personal—she frequently appears in her own films and incorporates her own family’s history and photo...
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Movie + 1 extraHive
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Blerta Basholli • 2021 • Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia
Starring Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi, Aurita AgushiThis Sundance award winner—the first film in the festival’s history to receive the Grand Jury Prize, the Audience Award, and the Directing Award—is a searing portrait of loss and ...
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Movie + 5 extrasThe Beaches of Agnès
Movie + 5 extras
Directed by Agnès Varda • 2008 • France
Starring Agnès Varda“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting auto-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey...
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1 seasonFour Films by Janicza Bravo
1 season
The director of the audacious festival hit LEMON and the critically acclaimed ZOLA, Janicza Bravo cultivates the unsettling, the absurd, and the hilariously warped. This selection of four of her brilliantly outré shorts—including the award-winning dark comedy GREGORY GO BOOM, starring Michael Cer...
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1 seasonDirected by Jane Campion
1 season
One of contemporary cinema’s most singular and captivating voices, Jane Campion brings a piercing psychological insight and radiantly expressive visual style to her intense, revelatory explorations of female subjectivity and desire. After winning critical acclaim for her first two theatrical feat...
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Movie + 4 extrasWorking Girls
Movie + 4 extras
Directed by Lizzie Borden • 1986 • United States
Starring Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda GoodwinSex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experience...
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Shadow Play: The Animated Films of Lotte Reiniger
1 season
The foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger brought enchanting storybook worlds to life through her intricate cutouts and groundbreaking use of a proto-multiplane camera that she developed a decade before the technique was made famous by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks...
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MovieSwimmer
Movie
Directed by Lynne Ramsay • 2012 • United Kingdom
Starring Tom LittenStunning monochrome cinematography and impressionistic sound design turn a young man’s aquatic odyssey into a ravishing sensory experience.
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Movie + 10 extrasSmooth Talk
Movie + 10 extras
Directed by Joyce Chopra • 1985 • United States
Starring Laura Dern, Treat Williams, Mary Kay PlaceSuspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oate...
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Movie + 3 extrasBoat People
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Ann Hui • 1982 • Hong Kong
Starring George Lam, Andy Lau Tak Wah, Cora MiaoOne of the major films of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui’s BOAT PEOPLE is a work of indelible humanity and searing political resonance. Invited to document the progress of postwar Vietnamese society, a Japan...
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1 seasonDirected by Claire Denis
1 season
No one makes movies like Claire Denis, one of contemporary cinema’s foremost masters. Raised in colonial West Africa, Denis apprenticed as an assistant to Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders before striking out on her own in the late eighties in an entirely original cinematic language shaped by her outs...
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1 seasonWomen Make Film
1 season
Five years in the making, this epic journey through film history is made up of forty “chapters” narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjoa Andoh, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton, and Debra Winger. WOMEN MAKE FILM follows in the footsteps of Mark Cousins’s THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSE...
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Movie + 3 extrasThank You and Good Night
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Jan Oxenberg • 1991 • United States
A lost-and-found revelation from indie film and TV maverick Jan Oxenberg is a docu-fantasy narrative focused on the filmmaker’s hilarious, messy, Jewish family as they prepare to say goodbye to someone they love. Narrated by a cardboard cutout of O...
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2 seasonsThe Films of Agnès Varda
2 seasons
A founder of the French New Wave who became an international art-house icon, Agnès Varda was a fiercely independent, restlessly curious visionary whose work was at once personal and passionately committed to the world around her. In an abundant career in which she never stopped expanding the noti...
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MovieOrnette: Made in America
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Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1985 • United States
Starring Ornette ColemanThis freewheeling documentary captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades. Documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music-video-style segments ever made chronicle his boyhood in segregated T...
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Movie + 1 extraNettles
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Raven Jackson • 2018 • United States
Starring James Vincent, Jordan-Amanda Hall, Duygu EserIn six chapters, the “stinging moments” that mark the lives of various women are evoked with striking, poetic intimacy.
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Movie + 1 extraPillars
Movie + 1 extra
Directed by Haley Elizabeth Anderson • 2020 • United States
Starring Kadence KingOne Sunday at church, twelve-year-old Amber experiences her first kiss, a moment of innocence that triggers a series of awakenings: sexual, emotional, and religious.
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Movie + 6 extrasMe and You and Everyone We Know
Movie + 6 extras
Directed by Miranda July • 2005 • United States
Starring John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles ThompsonWith this compassionate, startling comedy that could have come from no other artistic sensibility, the brilliant Miranda July reveals a world both familiar and strange—an original vision of creativ...
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Movie + 3 extrasThe Night Porter
Movie + 3 extras
Directed by Liliana Cavani • 1974 • Italy
Starring Charlotte Rampling, Dirk BogardeIn this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar ...
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Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories
1 season
In 1979, poet Adrienne Rich observed that “one of the most powerful social and political catalysts of the past decade has been the speaking of women with other women, the telling of our secrets, the comparing of wounds and sharing of words.” Curated by guest programmer Nellie Killian, Tell Me cel...
