Projects in genres: Woman Director

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The action is set in County Cork, in Southern Ireland in 1920. The film is a portrait of the end of an era, and the demise of a class and a way of life that have survived for centuries. It is also a psychological drama depicting the opposing emotions of love and the longing for freedom; of the lure of complacency and the hunger for change; of 'old ways' against the terrifying prospect of independence, both political and spiritual; above all, it is a portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalised time and place.

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Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, Emma Calder's short story animated film The Queen's Monastery, is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual water colour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession, jealousy and guilt.

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Shot in the style of 1940's thrillers, this film follows the adventure of top private eye. Huw Jones who is working against the notorious city gangs. He is lured into the street by Ingrid, a gangsters moll, attacked and bundled into a car . . .

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Thinking Twice Features the pianist Katharina Wolpe playing music composed by her father Stefan Wolpe. Stefan Wolpe was born in Berlin in 1902 and died in New York in 1972. His work is renowned for its originality and rigour, its sense of space and surprise.

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Three Ways to go is an animated film about the last moments of three lives. A range of film techniques are employed to illustrate each situation: a man drowning, a girl plummeting from a building and a car about to crash.

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One man's battle to bring order to chaos; a story of the cyclic nature and the inevitability of life. Even with the right tools for the job - he is faced with a daunting task, random and unpredictable, things aren't as simple as they first seem . . .

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An erotic, witty and disturbing film. An intriguing mix of fact and fiction. A suburban housewife peels back the veneer of her perfect home to lead us on a fabulous journey into the subterranean world of worms.

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During the time of apartheid Nelson Mandela drove around South Africa in a limousine disguised as a chauffeur while organizing the armed struggle against the apartheid regime. But who was the distinguished looking white man sitting in the back seat? Meet Cecil Williams, an acclaimed gay white theatre director and communist.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama 40

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A stop-frame animation using re-cycled dolls, toys and found objects. Without dialogue. Baby is a tiny doll who lives in the perpetually dark Niteworld. The only light place left is the theme park Welcomeworld, the hyper-real creation of Baby's long lost father. Baby travels to see him and wreaks havoc with the help of her special powers, a supply of jelly beans and her mysterious friends. Can she destroy the ultra-powerful, mega-rich 'nice-guy-in-a-sweater'?

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It's Friday night. Joan, an award-winning TV producer, has just been made redundant. The obnoxious and lecherous Fred seems to be losing his touch with the ladies. Fate throws Joan and Fred together. It looks like it's going to be a bumpy ride.

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In a small Tehran courtroom, the stories of three strong-willed women unfold as they use reason, charm, pleas for sympathy, anger, even a disarming wit to win what they each need - a divorce. Divorce Iranian Style is a unique window into the impassioned but very practical business of divorce - and marriage - in three Iranian women's lives. Jamileh, whose son saved her from the hand of her abusive husband; Ziba, an outspoken 16-year-old who proudly stands up to her 38 year-old husband and his family; and Maryam, remarried and desperate to regain custody of her two daughters. Stirring and poignant, this fly-on-the-wall look into the real circumstances of Iranian women's lives shatters the stereotype of women as passive victims in the Muslim world. (Edinburgh Film Festival Review)

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Sanjay and Neetu are not too sure what to make of their two grandfathers. Their father's father - Grandpa Leicester - is a bit of a tyrant and completely westernised. He's always telling them off about their manners and the way they dress. So when they hear their other grandfather is coming from India to spend a month with the family, they fear the worst.