Projects in genres: Woman Director

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The story explores self-discovery and healing, using containers as a metaphor for safe spaces. Through 2D animation and stop motion, it constructs a poetic narrative, reflecting sensibility and identity fragmentation with pottery and clay.
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2024

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Stella drops in on a one-night stand Jacob to tell him that she’s going to abort his baby. Jacob gallantly gives her a lift to the clinic.
Official Selection Flickerfest 2024 - International premiere

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REGENERATION tells the story of how the mining industry came to an end, including discussion around the miners' strike of 1984-1985. The film also includes archive footage, interviews, and a picture of what life is like now in the Dearne Valley.

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During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

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An intimate film portrait of British punk singer-songwriter and Libertines’ legendary front man, Pete Doherty, as he plunges into the depths of addiction at the very height of his popularity. Over a period of 10 years, Doherty was intimately filmed by director-musician Katia deVidas. We experience, in the artist’s own words, Doherty’s moving and emotionally charged fight to overcome his demons and emerge from darkness back into the light.
Official Selection Zurich Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Fran is a clean-cut middle-aged woman sat in a medical reception, waiting for her wife Nina to join her for an appointment. Despite her neat appearance, Fran's mind seems chaotic, causing intense emotional shifts that make her perception of reality increasingly surreal.

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The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Lee Miller travels to the frontlines of World War II as a photojournalist and embarks on a mission to expose the hidden truths of the Third Reich. But in the aftermath of betrayal, she comes to a reckoning about the truths of her own past.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with volunteer-worker Lisa, and his emotional support for one of his students Adam.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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Set against a secretive London subculture, Unicorns follows a British Indian performer living a double life and a single father working as a mechanic, whose lives collide after a chance encounter.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - European premiere

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England, tomorrow: An environmental crisis submerges London in flood waters. Forced out of by the cataclysmic flooding, a new mother, her partner, and their infant make their way to his parents’ home in the countryside, only to find the situation growing increasingly desperate there, as well.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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When people in Littlehampton start receiving scandalous and obscene letters, suspicion immediately falls on fiery Rose, who might lose the custody of her daughter. A group of women set out to solve the mystery. Inspired by an unbelievable true story.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere

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A meditative portrayal of terrorist, disinherited heiress and expectant mother Rose Dugdale - based on the real-life story of the self-radicalised Provisional IRA volunteer, who led an art raid for principle not money. "Time moves like ripples before and after the raid, with glimpses of contemporary reportage. We’re presented with violence, contradictions, lush cinematography and, ultimately, a portrait of a singular personality." (LFF Brochure)
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Official Competition