Films Directed by Women

the film, like all romantic comedies, revolves around a man and woman who love each other but are complete opposites. So, despite their strong feelings, Adam and Mary split up in order to rediscover each other.
But our protagonists are not the usual 20 or 30-year-olds, but 60-somethings. These lively 60-odd-year-olds brilliantly juggle children, grandchildren, work and friends with their attendant worries and joys. Until the day when Mary and Adam realise they belong to the elderly age group, to their great surprise…

A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.

A group of teenage girlfriends deal with life after high school.

In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.

1997 animated film by Charles Kissing and Mariola Brillowska

A young American architect comes to work to China on his thesis and accidentally poisoned himself while taking a hike on the mountain. However, he is miraculously saved and returned to the village by an unknown person. When he awakes, he doesn't know what happened or who saved him. This turn into a obsession to find his savior

2018 Japanese animated film

A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.

The Baronet of Ruddigore, Sir Despard Murgatroyd, has inherited a family curse which forces him to commit a crime every day — or die in agony. He hates the curse, doing his heinous misdeeds as early as possible and good works for the rest of the day to compensate!

Ex-con turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an exit from generations of poverty by bringing his life's secrets to the New York stage. But revisiting his troubled past has more in store than he bargained for, as he is confronted by his demons time and again.

Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local N.A.A.C.P. chapter. This portrait cuts through the very public controversy to reveal Dolezal’s motivations.

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

2012 documentary film directed by Alison Klayman

A love story, portraying the dilemmas and inevitable consequences of ambition. It is a film about a woman's fight for independence, a woman trying to succeed with her own art in the extremely competitive world of dance.

Songs for Alexis is a love story following two young teenagers fight for identity and love for each other in a grown up world.

Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.

An unconventional love story between an antisocial teenager, a Scotsman and a five-year-old girl.

After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.

Tarek and his mother Ghaydaa number among the tens of thousands of refugees crossing the border from Palestine, having been separated from Tarek's father amidst the chaos of the Six Day War. They ultimately settle at the Harir refugee camp, a makeshift home for a new generation displaced by conflict. Tarek dreams of being reunited with his father, and struggles to adapt to a new life far away from all he previously knew.