Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. 'Sweet Like Lemons' is a play on the saying "when life gives you lemons make lemonade", only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023 Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023

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The gothic story of Dracula is reimagined in a solitary séance in which an animated pop-up book serves as a conduit for Dracula’s curse to re-enter the modern world. The participating audience are 'The Invited'. One guest at a time enters a dark room and is presented with a theatrical set up containing an AR device and a hand crafted pop-up book. Each turn of the page reveals an intricate kirigami world that fills with AR holograms to tell the story of Vampire X’s unholy desires. The 15 minute experience is an emotionally touching, uniquely poetic, haunted ride through the torments of unconsummated love. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Competition

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A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare. A raw and experiential portrayal of a family unit, void of connection, confined in a car and trapped in their fated familial roles.

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A road trip pushes a dysfunctional family to the brink after their journey descends into a claustrophobic hallucinatory nightmare. A raw and experiential portrayal of a family unit, void of connection, confined in a car and trapped in their fated familial roles.

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A man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation, threatening to destroy his childhood home. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Programme - World premiere

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A story of a love triangle between individuals who can never be together but want for love nonetheless.

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Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation? World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2023 Sundance London 2024

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When Ruth finds her chronically ill sister Kitty living a new life by the seaside, she realises she doesn't know her sister - or her illness - at all... A short fiction film about sibling relationships and ableism.

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A heartwarming documentary featuring six women aged between 77 and 89. As young women they left their homes in the Caribbean, Ireland and South Asia to answer post WWII Britain’s call for workers. The film uses archive film and photography to interweave pivotal moments in women’s social history with the interviewees’ memories of life in Britain. These are the moments and movements that impacted women then and now. They include the Notting Hill uprising and the fight for racial equality in housing and jobs. The immigrant workers’ rights fought for by the Grunwick factory strikers and the lengths mothers went to in order to ensure their children received a proper education. Today, these fearless women are almost invisible to modern society, but as the film shows, they are still vibrant, engaging and full of mischievous fun.

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As youth violence rises in London, a wild and rebellious community of young people tear through the city’s streets in the name of ‘Knives Down, Bikes Up’. Community elder Mac fights for their problems to be seen, but their already precarious existence is jeopardised when they are forced away from the safe spaces of central London. Meanwhile, rider Miles finds solace from his previous life of crime in this unofficial family, but his world is threatened when the past comes back to haunt him.

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A bride-to-be comes to terms with her sexuality during her hen party - which means the wedding is off! Trailer Link

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The isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia, is the site for a reflection on the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes. Shot over several years, Let Us Flow uses inovative audio-visual techniques to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community and offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men. In a verdant mountainous region of Georgia, tradition and modernity intertwine. Carrying on the traditions of their ancestors, the men in the film race on horseback down mountains and across wide, expansive valleys in a performance of masculinity. The filmmaker states, “As the film progresses it becomes a film about distance: the twenty meter distance the Tushetian women have to observe from their shrines, the distance between me and my protagonists, between languages and translation.” Medoidze is never seen in front of the camera, made visible only through her voice. Yet even with this distance between her and her subjects the film, as shot from her perspective, makes for a truly immersive piece of observational filmmaking.