Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Kamali is the only girl skateboarder in a fishing village. Her timorous mother, Suganthi takes a pilgrimage in a quest for self-discovery. Separated for the first time, they must find freedom in a man’s world. BAFTA Film Awards 2020 - Nomination - Best British Short Film

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A short poetic and experimental documentary exploring synaesthesia, a neuro-cognitive phenomenon where one or more senses are blended together. ‘My Dad Is Orange’ will take you on a multi-sensory journey where you can explore a world where it is possible to smell sounds or even taste colours.

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A bowling alley, a gallery, a studio, a pregnancy and a pop song. Kathryn Elkin tackles, with her usual sense of humour, issues around labour, creation, biography, being an artist and the transforming pregnant body. QUEEN was conceived and shot during the artist’s pregnancy and first months of parenthood. Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - International Competition - World premiere

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Following a 21-year-old artist suffering from a various mental disorders, including severe perfectionism, she will do up to 10 copies of her work, often throwing it away. After a week of practice with a tattoo gun, will she be able to tattoo someone for the first time?

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During sleep and cornered by the lack of meaning a reluctant hedgehog creates a puzzle that can't be solved. But even within the dream the hedgehog is neither able to let it go nor to solve it and stubbornly tries to make sense of the absurdity...

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Sex education. Awkward memories, right? Boys and girls separated, a flustered teacher, the bare biological facts and a dose of shame. In the Netherlands, they do things differently. Children from the age of four learn to talk about their bodies and sexuality in an open and frank manner. This documentary observes a diverse group of pre-teens from Amsterdam, having a candid conversation about their changing bodies with an inspiring teacher. This isn’t just a sex ed class, this is an anti-shame class. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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The multiplicities of Black LGBTQ identities are carefully constructed and deconstructed, discarding the notion of a universal, homogenous experience of the world. Across two screens, parents stretch in gentle yoga poses with their child, a group of friends have a meal in someone’s home, a person vogues outside alone, and a couple hold hands in the back of a taxi. Small moments of affection that are a joy to witness.

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After a traumatic stillbirth, a woman starts to believe the ground below her apartment becomes pregnant.

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Based on Pilvi Takala’s experiences during an intervention at Second Home, East London (a co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups). During the two week-long intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant, the founder of cutting-edge company 'Personnel Touch' who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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An abstract crime thriller featuring a poodle, a beauty queen, and two sisters who aren't sisters. The film eschews conventional narrative in favour of a more dream-like montage. Based on Gertrude Stein's eponymously named screenplay and featuring a close personal network of friends and influences as cast. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere

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Following three transgender friends as they navigate some of the harsh realities of being trans in the UK, find their community, and dare to dream of a life without limitations. It's a coming of age story of friendship and hope, love and loss, strength and pride.

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Four women 'the wrong side of 25' on a hen weekend aboard a rented narrow boat make their way out of the city and into the countryside. A road trip, but at four miles an hour. Claire (the Bride), Freda (Maid of Honour), Ama (missed out Maid of Honour) and Lola (up for an adventure) are supposed to be adults but feel far from it. They don't have their relationships or careers in the places they think they should be, and their weekend away slowly become a journey of discovery. A comedy that's also a moving and candid portrayl of female friendship.