Projects in genres: Woman Director

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A straight-talking female comedian falls out with her play safe boyfriend when she behaves 'inappropriately' during a tedious business dinner.

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A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

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A lonely little girl tries to create a new world for herself and an equally lonely man. In a visually stunning dreamscape, she finds that freedom and home are synonymous — and that they come at a steep cost. Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts

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This installation piece is the first major collaboration between British artist Corin Sworn and Canadian artist Tony Romano. 'La Giubba' follows the intersections of five drifters over the course of two summer days in southern Italy. A young Albanian man and his daughter search for a swimming coach who fled their homeland in the 1990s, but instead find an Arbëresh community settled by their countrymen 600 years earlier. Two theatre actors take on a dubious commission to increase audiences in the rural south and traverse the landscape fashioning little theatres of belief, until a Canadian interloper turns up. Employing professional and amateur actors, 'La Giubba' situates its nomadic characters within both the stunning Italian landscape and the history inscribed upon it, visible and unseen. Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths

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In a bustling village near Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian girl becomes aware of strange new feelings that are both discomfiting and exciting. As her burgeoning sexuality begins to colour her experience of the world, it threatens to bring her into conflict with societal expectations. Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Short Cuts

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In a rural Indian village called Ujhaas, four ordinary women begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude, and question the status quo that favours men and ostracizes women for being educated and opinionated. Toronto International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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Inspired by William Gaddis’s novel "JR", 'Solo for Rich Man' restages a quintet of performance pieces (including one by Fluxus artist George Maciunas) from a four-day experimental music workshop for children conceived by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and renowned cellist Anton Likoszevieze. Official Selection Toronto 2015 - Wavelengths

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Love, Revenge… and Haute Couture. A glamorous woman returns to her small home town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.

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Deana McGuffin is a third generation New Mexico bootmaker, hand-crafting wearable pieces of art. When she is approached by a Canadian artist and a San Franciscan tattooer to create a gay-themed cowboy boot, a story unravels of a unique collaboration that takes them to the heart of cowboy country.

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Little Chandra walks through earthquake-hit Kathmandu with his grandfather, to visit his mother and newborn sibling in hospital. What awaits them at the end?

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Eight-year-old Rose challenges a family in denial by setting out to find her mythical dying mother. A road movie taken on foot. An intimate portrait of a family struggling to come to terms with their future, dramatizing an epic human dilemma. When time is running out for us, the environment and future generations, what choices of the heart must we make? What values do we cultivate? Venice Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A woman. A house. Sheets stir... new beginnings await. Using dance as a unique cinematic language this film explores women's stories inside the house. Therein lies a world of memory, joy, violence and transformation.