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Women Directors

Revisit and discover some of the best films made by female directors.

Stating that a film has been directed by a woman is increasingly losing its relevance as more and more female filmmakers appear each year. This collection includes films by established practitioners such as Sally Potter (Orlando, Ginger and Rosa) and Claire Denis (Bastards) to more recent British talents such as Joanna Hogg (Exhibition), Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Carol Morley (Dreams Of a Life). From a documentary about a young woman who, despite having an active social life, was discovered in her flat nearly three years after she death, a gritty reimagining of Wuthering Heights and a very queer take on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, this collection shows the remarkable diversity of women’s filmmaking today.

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Self Made Self Made

Documentary 2011 84 mins Director: Gillian Wearing

Artist Gillian Wearing’s ‘documentary’ observes seven people creating (fantasy?) identities in collaboration with a drama teacher. Raw and revealing.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin

Drama 2011 112 mins Director: Lynne Ramsay

Tilda Swinton gives a BAFTA-nominated performance as the mother of a teenager who commits a high school massacre. With Ezra Miller and John C. Reilly.

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The Selfish Giant The Selfish Giant

Drama 2013 91 mins Director: Clio Barnard

Two Yorkshire tearaways struggle with life and friendship in this challenging, compassionate growing-up tale by the director of The Arbor.

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Ginger & Rosa Ginger & Rosa

Drama 2012 90 mins Director: Sally Potter

Teenage friendship is torn apart when Rosa finds love in the wrong place, in Sally Potter's acute, 60s-set drama.

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Bastards Bastards

Drama 2013 100 mins Director: Claire Denis

Claire Denis’ moody and atmospheric thriller about an absent brother returning to the fold to investigate his family’s murky secrets.

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Dreams of a Life Dreams of a Life

Documentary 2011 91 mins Director: Carol Morley

The power of kinship is explored in Carol Morley’s drama-documentary, drawn from real life and resonant with the way we live now.

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Exhibition Exhibition

Drama 2014 105 mins Director: Joanna Hogg

Joanna Hogg's sleek and minimalist comedy about a pair of artists and their emotional attachment to their ultra-modernist apartment.

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Orlando Orlando

Fantasy 1993 93 mins Director: Sally Potter

Tilda Swinton stars in Sally Potter's dazzling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.

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Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights

Drama 2011 129 mins Director: Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold's bold re-imagining of the Emily Brontë classic.