Female Filmmaker Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

A Stranger Nobody Can Define Haunts 1960s Rural Poland in Helena Ganjalyan & Bartosz Szpak’s 16mm Enigma ‘Hauser’

A few minutes, a world yet to be fully explored. Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak on the deliberate ambiguity and feature-length ambitions of ‘Hauser’.

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When Distress Is Mistaken for Defiance. ‘Unauthorised Absence’ Exposes an Education System That Fails Families

Why fiction, not documentary? Georgia Parris & Natalie Lauren on making us feel how school fines punish, isolate and push struggling families to collapse.

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Live Action

A Pop-Up Techno Club Draws Two Lonely Lives into Quiet Orbit in Yassmina Karajah’s Nocturnal Short ‘Ambush’

Yassmina Karajah unpacks the instinctual performances, voyeuristic visuals and immersive soundscape behind her unconventional love letter to her home city.

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What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Kendall Goldberg Finds Out in Her Hellish Birthday Party Comedy ‘Surprise’

Kendall Goldberg's social anxiety comedy magnifies the fears of every introvert who's ever accepted an invitation to a party with people they don't know.

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Live Action

From “Back Alley Head Job” to SXSW Award-Winner: Lee Lawson on the Evolution of ‘Man Eating Pussy’

Lee Lawson discusses the practical effects and unexpected tenderness behind the provocative premise of her SXSW award-winning short, 'Man Eating Pussy'.

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Live Action, Premiere

Who Gets Believed? Susan Wokoma Confronts the Adultification of Black Children in ‘Dark Skin Bruises Differently’

Drawing on her childhood, Susan Wokoma writes, directs and stars as a teacher torn between instinct and complicity in a staffroom deciding a girl’s fate.

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Live Action, Premiere

Lola-Rose Maxwell Turns a Vintage Coat Into a Voyeuristic Menace in Her Debut Horror Comedy ‘Attack of the Coat’

Lola-Rose Maxwell outlines how she stepped behind the camera, engineered a creepy puppet antagonist & blended comedy with atmospheric horror for her debut.

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Live Action

Anna Hopkins Cooks Up Connection After Closing Time in Restaurant Set Two-Hander ‘Dish Pit’

Eschewing restaurant chaos for stillness, Anna Hopkins’ short film finds drama in small gestures, shared meals and intimate conversations after closing.

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Live Action

Li Anne Liew’s Gentle Ghost Drifts Through Strangers’ Secret Selves in ‘glide (all the people i’ll never be)’

In Li Anne Liew's tender ghost story reverie, a young woman wanders Los Angeles unseen as she mourns the life she's leaving and the ones she'll never live.

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Live Action

Defiant Black Trans Sisterhood Crashes Upscale Gentrification in Nana Duffuor’s Heist Short ‘Rainbow Girls’

As tech money prices them out of their own city, Nana Duffuor's trio of friends turn brazen luxury theft into an act of belonging, defiance and love.

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Live Action, Premiere

Kelly Sarri Turns a Punishing Summer Into Intimate, Generational Warfare in Her Scorching Climate Short ‘Heat Me’

Kelly Sarri grounds global climate anxieties within the invisible domestic toll borne by three generations of women inside a sweltering Greek apartment.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Guilherme Proença Crafts a Liminal Performance Testing Ground in Fashion Film ‘Human Trials’

In his experimental fashion film, Guilherme Proença explores the endless pursuit of perfection & optimisation of human experience across a trio of odd tests.

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