52 Films by Women Vol 2. 7. The Edge of Seventeen (Director: Kelly Fremon Craig)
The Edge of Seventeen is a painful reminder that when you are a teenager, you are very far from the best version of yourself. You …
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52 Films by Women Vol 2. 6. The Dreamed Ones (Die Geträumten) (Director: Ruth Beckermann)
Two young performers, an actor (Laurence Jupp) and an actress (Anna Plaschg), read the letters of Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann…
52 Films by Women Vol 2. 5. Through the Wall (Laavor et hakir) (Director: Rama Burshtein)
Romantic love is an arrogant folly. Im not sure I want to believe this, but it is probably true. The idea of soul mates is absurd.…
52 Films by Women Vol 2. 4. Ema (Mother) (Director: Kadri Kðusaar)
Directing alone is not the pinnacle of a career in the film industry. For men, it is being a producer-director, having total contr…
52 Films by Women Vol 2. 3. The Incident (Director: Jane Linfoot)
The Incident is the feature debut of Jane Linfoot whose reputation as a director to watch has been established through four short …
52 Films by Women Vol 2. 2. Queen of Katwe (Director: Mira Nair)
The poor box office numbers for Queen of Katwe ($8.7 million worldwide gross to 25 October 2016 against an estimated $15 million p…
52 Films by Women Vol. 2: 1. Raw (Dir. Julia Ducournau)
You are driving down a quiet country road at 30, maybe 40 miles an hour. All of a sudden, a young woman runs out from behind a tre…
What I learned from taking the ’52 films by women’ challenge
On 1 October 2015, the website womeninfilm.org started a campaign that asked the public to make a pledge: will you watch a film a …
52 Cinematic Views of Britain: 3. A Street Cat Named Bob (Director: Roger Spottiswoode)
I dont take sides. I take the kitty litter out. This might be a line you would expect to hear in A Street Cat Named Bob, the first…
52 Cinematic Views of Britain: 2. Burn Burn Burn (Director: Chanya Button)
The British road movie is a niche genre. The journey can be spuriously motivated. An artist (Peter Capaldi) travels from London to…
