52 Films by Women [2022]
List of films directed by women I watched and rewatched this year. Neither short films, nor co-directions (with male directors) were considered, which were the following (original titles):
La fiera y la fiesta (2019) [Laura Amélia Guzmán]
Das Purpurmeer (2020) [Amel Alzakout]
All'armi siam fascisti! (1962) [Cecilia Mangini]
Moana (1926) [Frances H. Flaherty]
Açúcar (2017) [Renata Pinheiro]
Missing on IMDb:
#4 Avá – Até Que os Ventos Aterrem (2021) [Camila Mota]
La fiera y la fiesta (2019) [Laura Amélia Guzmán]
Das Purpurmeer (2020) [Amel Alzakout]
All'armi siam fascisti! (1962) [Cecilia Mangini]
Moana (1926) [Frances H. Flaherty]
Açúcar (2017) [Renata Pinheiro]
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Missing on IMDb:
#4 Avá – Até Que os Ventos Aterrem (2021) [Camila Mota]
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- DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsSteven KeatsCarol KaneMel HowardIn 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
- DirectorMarie-Claude TreilhouStarsIngrid BourgoinMartine SimonetMichel DelahayeSimone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsJosephine SiaoKenny BeeMang-Ha ChengA Cantonese opera company arrives in Cheung Chau to perform for a rich man, who wants to marry of his nephew Dick to the star of the company Ah Gee. As soon as they arrive, the company is thwarted by a female spirit, Catshit, who turns out to be the precursor of a whole army of spirits sent to pester the uncle and one of the older actors. Only Ah Gee and Dick find out that the danger has something to do with a crime committed by Ah Gee's ancestors. This involved selling bad medicines to soldiers as a result of which a whole platoon of ghosts is out for vengeance
- DirectorGarrett BradleyStarsElliott EhlersJamaine JohnsonRebecca MatalonAgainst the backdrop of New York and New Orleans, Elliott, Leanne and Jermaine question their ability to dream amidst a crumbling economic climate. Opening in the streets of downtown Manhattan, Elliott (23), living at home after college, is surrounded by incomplete projects, frustrated and in search of purpose. Simultaneously, in New Orleans, Leanne (26), an aspiring model/actress and single mother of four, struggles to pick up the pieces, presenting at times a clash between family and her ambitious career. Plagued by an unforgiving criminal record, Jermaine (22), a New Orleans native, shifts through his home town for what seems like a hopeless attempt at legal employment. After a series of rejections, he resolves to reinvent himself in hopes of successfully starting anew.
- DirectorZsófia SzilágyiStarsZsófia SzamosiLeó FürediAmbrus BarczaA day in the life of a mother, caught in the relentlessness of daily life, between her work, her home and her children.
- DirectorTamar ShavgulidzeStarsNino KasradzeKetevan GegeshidzeNina MazodierThree decades after their separation, Irina and Nana remain mesmerized by memories of earlier days, but when Irina returns to the small community she left to reconcile with the past and their complex feelings.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorAna KatzStarsRaquel BankDaniel KatzNicolás LevinSebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
- DirectorDasha NekrasovaStarsMadeline QuinnBetsey BrownStephen GurewitzTwo roommates' lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.
- DirectorEsfir ShubStarsMikhail AlekseyevAlexei BrusilovNikolai ChkheidzeIn May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is Tsar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved in the First World War. Tsar Nicholas II declares a general mobilization. A vast number of peasants and workers have to go to the front as soldiers. After three years the country is ruined by the war, and there is a shortage of provisions. In February 1917 workers begin striking in the capital, Petrograd. Their protests are soon joined by soldiers. A complete anarchy is threatening the country, when the parliament, called the duma, reorganizes the power structure by forming a new Provisional Government. At the same time the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies forms another ruling body at the City Hall of Petrograd. In this situation Tsar Nicholas II sees no other possibility than to resign from his government. On the 4th of March 1917 he declares his abdication from the throne. The new Provisional Government and its war minister Kerensky continue the war. This presents an opportunity for the Bolsheviks to organize demonstrations and to persuade the workers and soldiers to overthrow the Provisional Government and seize power themselves.
- DirectorPrano Bailey-BondStarsNiamh AlgarMichael SmileyNicholas BurnsAfter viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsMiriam JakobThorbjörn BjörnssonMaren EggertA young German couple find their relationship tested after his mother suffers an accident. Thirty years later, a middle-aged actress splits with her anthropologist husband. Soon, these two couples' paths cross in unexpected ways.
- DirectorAna CarolinaStarsEurico Gaspar DutraBenito MussoliniTancredo NevesDocumentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsSichun MaFeihong YuEddie PengThe film tells the story of a young girl who travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong in pursuit of education, but ends up working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men.
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsLin GallagherA close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsSheila McCarthyPaule BaillargeonAnn-Marie MacDonaldScatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.
- DirectorPatricia RozemaStarsAmy NostbakkenNorah SadavaMaev BeatyCassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expresses the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she tries to organize the affairs for her mother's funeral.
- DirectorJane SchoenbrunStarsAnna CobbMichael J RogersTheo AnthonyAlone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
- DirectorShu Shuen TongStarsChi-Lu TsengHsiao-Ling ShawPao-Hsien FengFour college students and a doctor try to escape the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorHelena IgnezStarsRoberto AlencarAriclenes BarrosoMário BortolottoA film within a film. Young directors, prodigal adolescents, are filming "The Exhibitionist" in the middle of a farm in an paradisiacal region. Baron, performed by Ney Matogrosso, lives in the farm where his marriage to the dancer Marcelo will be celebrated. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, placing the Amazon as the epicenter of the world, reflecting on existential issues, legitimizing the right to sexual freedom and individuality. A philosophical and musical film.
- DirectorHelena IgnezStarsMário BortolottoClaudinei BrandãoEduardo ChagasInacio is employed in a mechanical workshop, where, in addition to working, he dreams of the Calendar Girl. In the film "My Calendar Girl" the real and imaginary intertwine all the time, in a tangle of surreal sensations.
- DirectorJagoda SzelcStarsAnna KrotoskaMalgorzata SzczerbowskaAnna ZubrzyckiMula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.
- DirectorMargot BenacerrafStarsJosé Ignacio CabrujasLaurent Terzieff"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. Margot Benacerraf captures in images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsIsabelle HuppertKool ShenLaurence UrsinoA stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoThe emotional journeys of two women victimized by corruption and injustice in Mexico and of the love, dignity and resistance that allowed them to survive.