Road movies directed by women display a sense of curiosity in what is traditionally one of cinema's more male-dominated genres.
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International Women's Day picks include films by and about women, like French Enough, Glass Life, and The Martha Mitchell Effect.
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“My name is Chantal Akerman. I was born in Brussels, and that’s the truth.” —Chantel Akerman in Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997) In 1975, a film by an unknown young Belgian
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A page of queer history gets its due in Ahead of the Curve. This celebratory doc notes the trailblazing legacy of Curve magazine. The film champions those who create spaces for queer
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This documentary about three mothers on the brink of being released from prison creeps up on you. At first, it seems a fairly pedestrian account of visits to the jail, the goings
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Trust one of the Netherland’s true auteurs, Heddy Honigmann, to create a film title that works both as a life philosophy and a primer for documentary making. A Peruvian Jew by birth
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Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.
Keep ReadingVarda By Agnès (France, 115 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda Programme: Special Events (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda’s final film is a bittersweet farewell. It’s difficult to avoid watching Varda By Agnès, which premiered earlier
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"There’s greater gender parity in documentary than in fiction and the approach to directing in non-fiction is to relinquish control. There’s a kind of humility or surrender. It’s not about the filmmaker;
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Searching for Ingmar Bergman sees filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta embark on her first documentary with an appreciation for the influential Swedish auteur.
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