Women Filmmakers Archives

★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, Female Filmmakers, France, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, out now, Reviews, Women FilmmakersNovember 22, 2024

All We Imagine As Light (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
All We Imagine As Light is a beautiful film about the contrasting lives of three women in India, the second film directed by award-winning Payal Kapadia.

★★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2025, Berlinale, Costa Rica, documentary, Female Filmmakers, first feature, out now, Reviews, Spain, Women FilmmakersNovember 13, 2024

Memories of a Burning Body (2024) (Memorias de un Cuerpo que Arde)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Memories of a Burning Body is an incredibly moving, candid docufiction about older women’s sexuality, directed by award-winning Antonella Sudasassi Furniss.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Denmark, first feature, out now, Reviews, San Sebastián 2024, Women FilmmakersSeptember 23, 2024

SAN SEBASTIÁN 2024: My Eternal Summer (2024) (Min Evige Sommer)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
My Eternal Summer Sylvia Le Fanu is the heartfelt, bittersweet story of a teenager and her family’s emotions during a last summer together.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Canada, Cannes Film Festival 2023, comedy, Female Filmmakers, Reviews, romance, Women FilmmakersJune 27, 2024

The Nature of Love (2023) (Simple Comme Sylvain)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Nature of Love directed by Monia Chokri is a modern Canadian romcom, seen from a woman’s point of view, with a contemporary twist.

★★★★, Awards, Cannes Film Festival 2022, France, London Film Festival 2022, Modern Films, out now, Qatar, Syria, UK, Venice Biennale 2022, Women FilmmakersApril 27, 2024

Nezouh (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Nezouh by Soudade Kaadan is a teenage coming-of-age story of finding hope in devastated war-torn Syria.

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2024, Female Filmmakers, Germany, out now, Reviews, Women FilmmakersApril 22, 2024

Elaha (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Elaha, directed by Milena Aboyan, is a powerful contemporary story about the conflict between tradition and modernity in the life of a young girl from an immigrant family in Germany.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, Female Filmmakers, First-time filmmakers, France, Mongolia, out now, Qatar, Reviews, Switzerland, Women FilmmakersApril 5, 2024

If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
If Only I Could Hibernate written, directed and produced by Zoljargal Purevdash is an involving, behind-the-scenes look at pressing issues in Mongolia, with an ecological message, seen through the life of an endearing teenager.

★★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, documentary, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, Modern Films, oscars, out now, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Women FilmmakersMarch 8, 2024

Four Daughters (2023) (Les Filles d’Olfa)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
Four Daughters is a powerful and emotionally compelling mixture of documentary and drama directed by Kaouther Ben Hania that examines the roots of fundamentalism and how women pass on self-imposed repression through the generations.