52 Films by Women [2017]
A list of 52 feature films directed by women following the pledge to watch as launched in 2015 by the website Women in Film. The films below were listed chronologically, that is, from January to December [select "list order"]. I, for one, offer a top ten below on this very description. Co-directions (with male directors) were not considered, which were the following:
Demain (2015) [Mélanie Laurent]
Martírio (2016) [Tatiana Almeida]
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) [Olivia Neergaard-Holm]
Slava (2016) [Kristina Grozeva]
Visages, villages (2017) [Agnès Varda]
As Boas Maneiras (2017) [Juliana Rojas]
La Telenovela Errante (2017) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Serguei, o Último Psicodélico (2016) [Zahy Tata Pur'gte]
Alguma Coisa Assim (2017) [Mariana Bastos]
Loving Vincent (2017) [Dorota Kobiela]
Pitanga (2017) [Camila Pitanga]
My top ten:
Era o Hotel Cambridge (2016)
Terra Sonâmbula (2007)
Sans toit ni loi (1985)
Scary Mother (2017)
Gorge coeur ventre (2016)
Divinas Divas (2016)
Innocence (2004)
The Mark of Cain (2001)
Grave (2016)
Estiu 1993 (2017)
Demain (2015) [Mélanie Laurent]
Martírio (2016) [Tatiana Almeida]
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016) [Olivia Neergaard-Holm]
Slava (2016) [Kristina Grozeva]
Visages, villages (2017) [Agnès Varda]
As Boas Maneiras (2017) [Juliana Rojas]
La Telenovela Errante (2017) [Valeria Sarmiento]
Serguei, o Último Psicodélico (2016) [Zahy Tata Pur'gte]
Alguma Coisa Assim (2017) [Mariana Bastos]
Loving Vincent (2017) [Dorota Kobiela]
Pitanga (2017) [Camila Pitanga]
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My top ten:
Era o Hotel Cambridge (2016)
Terra Sonâmbula (2007)
Sans toit ni loi (1985)
Scary Mother (2017)
Gorge coeur ventre (2016)
Divinas Divas (2016)
Innocence (2004)
The Mark of Cain (2001)
Grave (2016)
Estiu 1993 (2017)
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- DirectorPenelope SpheerisStarsFleaKeith MorrisEyeballThe Decline of Western Civilization III is a 1998 documentary film that follows the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers.
- DirectorMaud AlpiStarsBostonVirgile HanrotDimitri BuchenetThe animals arrive by night. They intuit. They resist. A young man leads them to their deaths before dawn. His dog discovers a terrifying world that seems certain never to end.
- DirectorSylvie VerheydeStarsLéora BarbaraMélissa RodriguèsLaëtitia GuerardParis, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
- DirectorMaren AdeStarsSandra HüllerPeter SimonischekMichael WittenbornA practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
- DirectorMia Hansen-LøveStarsIsabelle HuppertAndré MarconRoman KolinkaA philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
- DirectorSuzana AmaralStarsDenoy de OliveiraSonia GuedesUmberto MagnaniTells the tale of the naive Macabéa, a 19-year-old lonely and poor woman from the Northeastern of Brazil who moves to São Paulo in hopes of a better future.
- DirectorLucile HadzihalilovicStarsMax BrebantRoxane DuranJulie-Marie ParmentierThe only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?
- DirectorRenata PinheiroStarsNash LailaMaeve JinkingsSamuel VieiraShelly, a young dancer, dreams of becoming a singer at Brega, a romantic and sensually appealing musical scene in the Brazilian outskirts. inserted in a world where everything is disposable, like success, love, and human relationships, Shelly lives a difficult, tumultuous trajectory toward her desire to be famous. Jaqueline, her bandmate, a decaying experienced singer, is her mirror.
- DirectorIrene TaylorStarsMorgan GeyserAnissa WeierAngie GeyserTells the story of two 12-year old girls, who attempted to murder one of their friends in an attempt to appease Slenderman, a fictional monster from a horror website.
- DirectorJuliana RojasStarsEduardo GomesLuciana PaesHugo VillavicenzioThe routine of an inept apprentice gravedigger changes when a new employee arrives at the cemetery. Together they must locate abandoned graves, but strange events make them think about the implications of tampering with the dead.
- DirectorBarbara ZemljicStarsJanja MajzeljGrega ZorcVladimir VlaskalicA woman in her 30s who wanted more of life jumps into extramarital affair, only to lose husband, job, and finally her lover as well. However, she thinks she should make a new start and have fun no matter on consequences.
- DirectorPaula OrtizStarsMaribel VerdúLeticia DoleraLuisa GavasaInterwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love of their lives and they will have to pursue their happiness and fight for their dignity in a dark and hostile word.
- DirectorAlix LambertSailing ships, stars, angels and executioners, The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia's most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of it's origins: the penitentiary and the criminal environment. Incisive interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of The Zone and The Code of Thieves of the vory v zakone.
- DirectorCristiane OliveiraStarsMaria GalantMarat DescartesVerónica PerrottaNalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.
- DirectorSophie HuberStarsHarry Dean StantonSophie HuberWim WendersHarry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor's enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Kris Kristofferson and Debbie Harry. The fragile soul of an actor emerges from the poignant collage.
- DirectorAlice LoweStarsAlice LoweDan Renton SkinnerJo HartleyWidow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.
- DirectorMarília RochaStarsElizabete FranciscaFrancisca ManuelPaulo NazarethTwo young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while.
- DirectorLeandra LealStarsRogériaJane di CastroDivina ValériaThe Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsNicole KidmanKirsten DunstElle FanningThe unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsMaria RibeiroClarisse AbujamraPaulo VilhenaWhen Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsJoão Pedro VazAlice Albergaria BorgesBeatriz BatardaIn Portugal, a father, a mother and a daughter's daily lives are being subsumed by the effects of the economic crisis.
- DirectorValeska GrisebachStarsMeinhard NeumannReinhardt WetrekSyuleyman Alilov LetifovGerman construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.