Films Directed by Women

Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.

2016 film by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Alessandro Carloni

Kim Jameson is a university professor while Kate Jameson - also known as Dominique, Kim’s twin sister - is a troubled model working in Paris. Kate is a drunk, in desperate need of rehabilitation. Kim checks her twin sister into a rehab center, agreeing to fill in for Dominique during her absence, but by doing so takes on more than she bargained for.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a country with a very strong social cohesion and the unprecedented admiration of the people for their leader, which is absolutely unique and incomprehensible especially from a Western point of view. The native Korean director Sung-Hyung Cho tries to understand this by accompanying several Koreans from different backgrounds in their daily lives. The film shows the country and its people in a way, as it is rarely done in Western media, non-judgmental and respectful towards the people.

改编自伍尔芙最受争议的女性意识流小说《海浪》。
A film not for everyone. The film is a sort of decontructivistic art movie.
All texts are voice-overs. Poetic but also alienating.
The actors are not only acting, but also rehearsing, trying on dresses, traveling etc. There was some marxistic-leninistic theorising responsible for that. I doubt if even the director still nows the theory,but it dictated that it should be visible that the actors were acting,so it is their reality that is shown, not a make believe reality.
The music is by an important classical Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. ( Also very en vogue left-wing at that time). It's quit remarkable.
The film was brought out again to celebrate the 25th. birthday of the studio nieuwe gronden. An independent small production company of artistic great importance.
The film is not digitally remasterd and restaurated, but put to DVD straight from the celluloid. And I must say, I was delighted to see a movie with celuloid cracks and sound scratches, like a movie should be. I didn't know I'd mis that, but now I've seen this film: I do!
GOLVEN is based on THE WAVES (1931) by Virgina Woolf. There are six main characters in the film who are continually trying to recapture the sense of harmony which they knew as childeren. Throug their thoughts the intensity of childhood, the optimism of youth an the desilllusion of later years are portrayed. Their perceptions and feelings move back and forth through the narrative live waves.
The presentation of the thoughts of the six characters which cover their development from child to adult is a challenge to confront one's own life.
The central event in the film is the meeting of Bernard, Neville, Rhoda, Jinny, Susan and Louis at a restaurant in London in 1920. They meet for dinner on the eve of Percival's departure for India. In a sense Percival acts as a mirror in which each character sees his own ideal image. He himself remains a mysterious figure. Immediately after this dinner, which evokes harmony and happiness on various levels, they learn that Percival has been killed in a riding accident. His death marks the beginning of the decline of the group and of its individual members.
This is not the film of a book in the normal sense. Its images are inspired by the form of the novel, and it takes us on a voyage of discovery. It moves from elements of the present towards the historical fiction, which is re-experieced in a way which is only possible in film. After the death of Percival it becomes clear that the carefully constructed fiction cannot survive and it collapses. The illusion that life and reality are continuing stories in which events follow each other logically is lost.

In „Berg Fidel - Eine Schule für alle“ begleitete die Filmemacherin Hella Wenders die vier Kinder David, Jakob, Anita und Lucas, die an der inklusiven Schule Berg Fidel in Münster zur Schule gehen, wo Schüler ungeachtet körperlicher, geistiger und sozialer Unterschiede aufgenommen werden und sich mit allen möglichen Beeinträchtigungen arrangiert wird. In „Schule, Schule - Die Zeit nach Berg Fidel“ dokumentiert Wenders den Werdegang von David, Jakob und Anita sowie ihrer ehemaligen Mitschülerin Samira, nachdem sie ihre alte Schule verlassen haben und auf unterschiedliche weiterführende Schulen gewechselt sind. Dabei zeigt sie die verschiedenen Träume, Hoffnungen, Sorgen, Ängste und Nöte der vier Kinder und Jugendlichen, aber auch deren schulische und private Erfolge.

On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.

Um mergulho nos textos e pensamentos de Affonso Eduardo Reidy, um dos principais nomes da arquitetura moderna do país conhecido por projetos como o Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM/RJ).

Four men from a nomadic Tibetan tribe undertake their annual, ritualistic pilgrimage to a sacred salt lake. Salt gathered in this traditional fashion will be sold to provide the economic livelihood of the tribe for the coming year. The journey, necessary for the group's survival, also incorporates a number of rituals necessary for their culture to survive in the modern world.

2013 film by Wong Chun-chun

Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who investigates the murder of a man with ties to the Miami mafia.

The story is based on the popular novel developed from folk legend. It goes that the Manchurian emperor Qianlong of China (circa 18th Century) was actually the son of a Han Chinese, the subject ethnicity. His brother of blood, Chen Jialuo just happened to be the chief of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Manchu secret society. Chen, a learned scholar, thought he could get his brother turn his back on the Manchu and restore the Han Chinese reign. But the story was ended by brutal clearence of the society members. It reflects one of the dark pages in Chinese culture, that ethics and humanity always become impotent when countered with power.

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

The story of the boy who, after the girl he worked so hard to get breaks up with him, goes on a journey to get her back and discovers on the way what he's really been searching for.

Narrates the preparation for a wedding of a Spanish couple in which everything goes wrong.

Award-winning actor Konkona Sensharma makes her feature debut as a writer-director with this coming-of-age story about a shy young Indian student who quietly and fatefully unravels during a family road trip.

2010 film by Lisa Cholodenko

2001 film by Ana Díez

When her inability to commit leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, opera-loving writer Allegra winds up in the bed of amiable professor Philip. He is so smitten with Allegra that he dumps his lover, Grace, and convinces Allegra to continue their affair. When Allegra meets Grace, sparks fly, and she begins a parallel romance, unaware that her new lover is the woman Philip left to be with her.

2005年4月，日本一辆通勤列车在一处弯道处驶出轨道撞入路边一栋大楼，造成107人死亡。酿成此次惨剧的原因是列车比预定时间晚点了80秒，列车司机为了弥补这80秒的延迟超速行驶。片中，通过相关人员的描述，我们似乎看到一个意味追求效率却不懂得何时该停下来的社会。影片也带我们探索了原本被视作一个国家美得的“准时”与“忠于协议”，是如何变成一个社会的阻碍并最终危及到日本人民的生命的。