Films Directed By Women
Released or Re-Released Between January '05 - February '06
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Film Titles in Alphabetical Order |
Directors |
A |
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Abel Raises Caine |
Jenny Able & Jeff Hockett |
Aeon Flux |
Karyn Kusama |
After Innocence |
Jessica Sanders |
Al Otro Lado |
Natalia Almada |
Anguedia Callejera |
Marta Noemi Bautis |
April’s Shower |
Trish Doolan |
| B |
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Bad Girls Behind Bars |
Sharon Zurek |
Ballets Russes |
Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller |
Be Fruitful and Multiply |
Shosh Shlam |
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt |
Margaret Brown |
Bearing Witness |
Marijana Wotton |
Bewitched |
Nora Ephron |
Blossoms of Fire |
Maureen Gosling and Ellen Osborne |
Bride and Prejudice |
Gurinder Chadha |
Brother Carl |
Susan Sontag |
Brothers |
Susanne Bier |
| C |
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Cazuza, O Tempo Nao Para |
Sandra Werneck & Walter Carvalho |
Christmas in the Clouds |
Kate Montgomery |
| Conventioneers |
Mora Stephens |
| D |
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D.E.B.S. |
Angela Robinson |
Dalecarlians |
Maria Blom |
Daltry Calhoun |
Katrina Holden Bronson |
Damn Good Dog |
Erica McCarthy |
David Hockney: The Colors of Music |
Maryte Kavaliauskas and Seth Schneidman |
Double Dare |
Amanda Micheli |
Down to the Bone |
Debra Granik |
Duck |
Nicole Bettauer |
Duet For Cannibals |
Susan Sontag |
| E |
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Electric Shadows |
Xiao Jiang |
Emmanuel's Gift |
Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern |
| F |
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Face |
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan |
Faithless Games |
Michaela Pavlatova |
Finding Eleazar |
Paula Heil Fisher |
Freezerburn |
Melissa Balin |
| Friends With Money |
Nicole Holofcener |
| G |
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Green Street Hooligans |
Lexi Alexander |
| H |
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Happy Is Not Hard To Be |
Cecil Castellucci |
Hard Goodbyes: My Father |
Penny Panayotopoulou |
Harlan County, U.S.A |
Barbara Koppl |
Haunting Douglas |
Leanne Pooley |
Herbie: Fully Loaded |
Angela Robinson |
Highway Courtesans |
Mystelle Brabbee |
Hitler's Hit Parade |
Oliver Axer & Susanne Benze |
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action |
Roberta Grossman |
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer |
Georgina Garcia Riedel |
| I |
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I Am |
Dorota Kedzierzawaska |
I Was A Teenage Feminist |
Therese Shecter |
Incident at Blood Gorge |
Susan B. Devine |
Inflated: The Blow Up Doll Films of Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins |
Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins |
Innocence |
Lucile Hadzihalilovic |
| J |
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Just For Kicks |
Lisa Leone & Thibaut De Longeville |
Justice |
Jeanne-Marie Almonor & John G. Shulman |
Justice/Justica |
Maria Ramos |
| K |
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Keep Not Silent |
Ilil Alexander |
Kinky Friedman: Proud to Be an Asshole From El Paso |
Simone de Vries |
Kissed by Winter |
Sara Johnsen |
| L |
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La Bestia Nel Cuore/ The beast in the heart |
Cristina Comencini |
La Sierra |
Margarita Martinez & Scott Dalton |
Learning to Swallow |
Danielle Beverly |
Like Someone in Love |
Leslie Napoles |
Lions Love |
Agnes Varda |
Little Man |
Nicole Conn |
Living ‘til the End |
Amanda Goodwin |
Look At Me |
Agnes Jaoui |
Lords of Dogtown |
Catherine Hardwicke |
Love and Happiness |
Kristina Humle |
Love Ludlow |
Adrienne Weiss |
| M |
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Mad Hot Ballroom |
Marilyn Agrelo |
Making Grace |
Catherine Gund |
Margaret Cho: Assassin |
Kerry Asmussen |
Marjoe |
Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith |
Me and You and Everyone We Know |
Miranda July |
Missing In America |
Gabrielle Savage Dockterman |
Muskrat Lovely |
Amy Nicholson |
My Friend Henry |
Auli Mantila |
My Name Was Sabrina Spielrein |
Elisabeth Marton |
| N |
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Naked in Ashes |
Paula Fouce |
No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal |
Helene Klodawsky |
North Country |
Niki Caro |
| O |
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O Carcere e a Rua |
Liliana Sulzbach |
Of Gods And Men |
Anne LEscot & Laurence Magloire |
On Native Soil |
Linda Ellman |
On the Outs |
Lori Silverbush & Michael Skolnik |
Or (My Treasure) |
Keren Yedaya |
Our Brand is Crisis |
Rachel Boynton |
Oyster Farm |
Anna Reeves |
| P |
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Peaceable Kingdom |
Jenny Stein |
Petite Jerusalem |
Karin Albou |
Piggie |
Alison Bagnall |
Pin Boy (Parapalos) |
Ana Poliak |
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio |
Jane Anderson |
Pulled from the Rubble |
Margaret Loescher |
| Q |
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Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia |
Penny Arcade |
| R |
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Rain |
Katherine Lindberg |
| S |
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Saving Face |
Alice Yu |
Schizo |
Guka Omarova |
Sepet |
Yasmin Ahmad |
Sequins |
Eleonore Faucher |
Seven Songs From the Tundra |
Anastasia Lapsui |
Sex And A Girl |
Drew Ann Rosenberg |
Since Otar Left |
Julie Bertucelli |
Sisters/Hermanas |
Julia Solomonoff |
Something New |
Sanaa Hamri |
Song of the Exile |
Ann Hui |
Soraida, Woman of Palestine |
Tahani Rached |
State of Fear |
Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis & Peter Kinoy |
| Stay Until Tomorrow |
Laura Colella |
Steal Me |
Melissa Painter |
Still We Ride |
Elizabeth Press, Andrew Lynn, Chris Ryan |
Stolen |
Rebecca Dreyfus |
Stranger With A Camera |
Elizabeth Barrett |
Sunset Story |
Laura Gabbert |
| T |
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Tammytown |
Phoebe Owens |
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia |
Pirjo Honkasalo |
The Ballad of Greenwich Village |
Karen Kramer |
The Ballad of Jack and Rose |
Rebecca Miller |
The Boys of Baraka |
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Mary McGuckian |
The Connection |
Shirley Clarke |
The Cool World & Bridges-Go-Round |
Shirley Clarke |
The Education of Shelby Knox |
Rose Rosenblatt and Marion Lipschutz |
The Fall of Fujimori |
Ellen Perry |
The Forest for the Trees |
Maren Ade |
The Future of Food |
Deborah Koons Garcia |
The Gits |
Kerri O'Kane |
The Holy Girl |
Lucretia Martel |
The Intruder |
Claire Denis |
The Joy of Life |
Jenni Olson |
The Kid & I |
Penelope Spheeris |
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror |
Audrey Brohy &Gerard Ungerman |
The Phantom of the Operator |
Caroline Martel |
The Producers |
Susan Stroman |
The Remains of Nothing |
Antonietta de Lillo |
The Rider Named Death |
Karen Shakhnazarov |
| The Secret Life of Words |
Isabel Coixet |
The Third Society |
J.A. Steel |
The Time We Killed |
Jennifer Reeves |
The Tollbooth |
Debra Kirschner |
The Wedding Date |
Claire Kilner |
Thirty Years: Meeting a New Generation |
Giovanna Taviani |
Three of Hearts |
Susan Kaplan |
To The Other Side |
Natalia Almada |
Tomorrow We Move |
Chantal Ackerman |
Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars |
Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein |
True Love |
Nancy Savoca |
Twenty Nineth and Gay directed |
Carrie Preston |
| U |
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Unwanted Woman |
Tahmineh Milani |
| V |
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Victoire |
Stephanie Murat |
Vieques |
Mary Patierno |
Vito After |
Maria Pusateri |
| W |
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Walking and Talking |
Nicole Holofcener |
Wall |
Simone Bitton |
What the Bleep? Down the Rabbit Hole |
Betsy Chasse,
William Arntz, and Mark Vicente |
| Whatever Happened to Alice |
Linda Larson |
When the Sea Rises |
Yolande Moreau and Gilles Porte |
Women in Struggle |
Buthina Canaan Khoury |
Writer of O |
Pola Rapaport |
| X |
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| Y |
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Yes |
Sally Potter |
Young Rebels |
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck August |
| Z |
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Zizek! |
Astra Taylor |