Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Iris (Olga Kurylenko) slices off her ring finger while working at a soft-drink factory. This distressing incident prompts her to quit her job; she then moves to a nearby port town, where she takes a position as a laboratory assistant for a tightly wound curator (Marc Barbé). His peculiar line of business involves preserving personal belongings that recall specific memories for his clients; a lock of hair, for example, or a piece of music. Iris drifts into an increasingly fetishistic relationship with her boss while also pining for an ethereal, enigmatic sailor (Stipe Erceg) who shares her hotel room during the hours she is at work.

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Marion, now grown up, lives with her oppressive Mum. For Mother's birthday Marion wants to surprise her with a new dressing gown. In a lingerie shop, Marion has a minor accident and she ends up buying some tiny but sexy underwear. Marion believes this to be a nice gift for her mother. As it turns out, Mother doesn't! Marion thinks that the lingerie is the most gorgeous thing she has ever seen and in a quiet revolt, she claims the lingerie for herself.

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Two strangers meet at a bus stop one rainy night. On the surface there is nothing unusual in their meeting. Slowly however Lula finds herself drawn to Alan and curiously returns to the bus stop in the hope of getting to know this stranger. What is it about Alan that draws Lula in? A tender modern love story develops between Lula, a lap-dancer, and Alan, a blind man, as each learns to trust a stranger.
 

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This short experimental documentary is a layered audio visual look at the past and present of Buffalo's old Hotel Lenox, and the many stories contained within its weathered walls.

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Lin and Ralph is a moving, sometimes funny, and ultimately uplifting story about the love and commitment of two extraordinary people. Lin, 54, is blind and has cerebral palsy. Her husband Ralph, 70, is her full time 24/7 carer, and has Parkinson's disease.
 
Filmed over 17 years by close friend and award-winning documentary maker Marilyn Gaunt, this is an intimate portrait of a marriage that has overcome incredible odds and achieved great things. But recent events have cast shadows, and put what seemed to be an indestructible love under almost unbearable pressure.

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Hector was eight when his father brought him to Gainesville, in the heart of the American south. Olga was 12 when her father swam the Rio Grande with her on his back. Thomas was 16 when his mother put him on a bus alone, with a bag of tacos for the 2,000-mile journey. Lost in Gainesville retraces their journey, as they tell their stories of growing up among lost hopes and dreams, in a town where work has dried up, where fascists march against them and where rich whites live out lives of faded glory.

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Sometimes some films change some lives.

As Alex suspects that her boyfriend, Peter, hides something from her, Woody Allen's Manhattan interfaces on their relationship and somehow helps both of them to come to a realisation about it.

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Tom is locked in his conflict between his wife, Elizabeth and new daughter, and his older sister Patricia. Patricia always calls her little brother when the going gets rough. To avoid unpleasant rows Tom "sneaks" out on nightly missions to help his troublesome sister. On one of those nights Tom has no choice but to bring Patricia home with him and the family tension reaches crescendo.

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'These girls are gorgeous and they’re sisters.  I’ll be damned if Al Qaeda is going to ruin my sex life!' 

Dinner ingredients: two lonely guys, two Naked-Volleyball playing sisters. All that stands between the guys and girlie paradise are the ginger-haired terrorists tied up in the living room.
 

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Maryam enters the UK illegally and claims asylum. She seeks things that we take for granted, such as food, shelter and safety, basic needs and human rights.

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In 2058, two apathetic friends run the night shift in a 24-hour convenience store. Robert likes the Japanese girl who works the day shift, but in spite of encouraging signs from her, he won't - or can't - act. Instead, Robert and Steve discuss their views on life.

Winner of Gold Hugo for best short film at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival. 

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Unemployed Lee is an inside kind of guy, living in a bedsit hell. He loathes the shrill communual phone, but nobody else can be bothered to answer it. Not even Prentis, it's almost always for him, a girl called Nadine. There's been pain between these two and Lee's about to get right in the middle of it.