Women's cinema, the Glossary

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1. 848 relations: A Different Image, A Flickering Truth, A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines, A Real Young Girl, A Winter Tale, A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film), Abortion, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards, Aelita, African Americans, Agnès Jaoui, Agnès Merlet, Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Alain Resnais, Alexander Dovzhenko, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Vertinsky, Alfonso Corona Blake, Alice Award, Alice Guy-Blaché, Alice O'Fredericks, Alice Rohrwacher, Alile Sharon Larkin, Alix Delaporte, Alla Surikova, American Honey (film), American Psycho (film), American University in Cairo, Amma Asante, Among Grey Stones, Ana Carolina (director), Ana Mariscal, Anatoliy Beliy, And Quiet Flows the Don (1930 film), Andrée Feix, Andrea Arnold, Angela Schanelec, Animal Farm (1954 film), Anita Loos, Anja Breien, Ann Hui, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Anna Eriksson, Anna Hofman-Uddgren, ... Expand index (798 more) »

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A Different Image

A Different Image is a 1982 American film directed, written, and edited by Alile Sharon Larkin that explores body image and societal beauty standards through the eyes of a young Black woman on a journey towards self-worth.

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A Flickering Truth

A Flickering Truth is a 2015 New Zealand documentary film written and directed by Pietra Brettkelly.

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A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov) is a 1987 Red Western comedy film (Mosfilm production) directed by Alla Surikova, with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid.

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A Real Young Girl

A Real Young Girl (Une vraie jeune fille) is a 1976 French drama film about a 14-year-old girl's sexual awakening, written and directed by Catherine Breillat.

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A Winter Tale

A Winter Tale is a 2007 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Frances-Anne Solomon, featuring Canadian actor Peter Williams and Caribbean stars Leonie Forbes and Dennis "Sprangalang" Hall.

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A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)

A Wrinkle in Time is a 2018 American science fantasy adventure film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based on Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 novel of the same name.

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Aelita

Aelita (Аэли́та), also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a 1924 Soviet silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov and produced at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui (born 19 October 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.

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Agnès Merlet

Agnès Merlet (born 4 January 1959) is a French film director who is known for directing Son of the Shark, Artemisia and Dorothy Mills.

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Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda (born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer.

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Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema.

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Agnieszka Smoczyńska

Agnieszka Smoczyńska (born 18 May 1978) is a Polish film and television writer and director.

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Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais (3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.

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Alexander Dovzhenko

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (Александр Петрович Довженко, Олександр Петрович Довженко; November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian Soviet director, film producer and screenwriter.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alexander Vertinsky

Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Александр Николаевич Вертинский, – May 21, 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.

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Alfonso Corona Blake

Alfonso Corona Blake (2 January 1919 – 21 January 1999) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter.

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Alice Award

The Alice Award was a Danish film award presented annually at the Copenhagen International Film Festival to the Best Female Director.

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Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (Guy;; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer film director.

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Alice O'Fredericks

Alice O'Fredericks (born Mitzi Otha Alice Frederiksen; 8 September 1899 – 18 February 1968) was a Danish actress, screenwriter, and film director.

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Alice Rohrwacher

Alice Rohrwacher (born 29 December 1981) is an Italian film director, editor and screenwriter.

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Alile Sharon Larkin

Alile Sharon Larkin (born May 6, 1953) is an American film producer, writer and director.

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Alix Delaporte

Alix Delaporte (born 1969) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Alla Surikova

Alla Ilinichna Surikova (А́лла Ильи́нична Су́рикова; born November 6, 1940, in Kyiv) is a Soviet and Russian film director, writer, and teacher.

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American Honey (film)

American Honey is a 2016 road drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold.

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American Psycho (film)

American Psycho is a 2000 satirical horror film directed by Mary Harron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Guinevere Turner.

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American University in Cairo

The American University in Cairo (AUC; al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in New Cairo, Egypt.

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Amma Asante

Amma Asante (born 13 September 1969) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress, and Chancellor at Norwich University of the Arts, who was born in London, England, to parents from Ghana.

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Among Grey Stones

Among Grey Stones (Sredi serykh kamney) is a 1983 Soviet historical drama film directed by Kira Muratova.

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Ana Carolina (director)

Ana Carolina (born 27 September 1945) is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter.

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Ana Mariscal

Ana María Arroyo Mariscal (31 July 1923 – 28 March 1995) better known as Ana Mariscal was a classic Spanish film actress, director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Anatoliy Beliy

Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Weissman, known professionally as Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Beliy (born 1 August 1972) is a Soviet-born Israeli actor.

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And Quiet Flows the Don (1930 film)

And Quiet Flows the Don (Тихий Дон) is a 1930 Soviet film directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya.

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Andrée Feix

Andrée Feix (15 February 1912 – 15 April 1987) was a French film editor and film director.

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Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor.

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Angela Schanelec

Angela Schanelec (born 14 February 1962) is a German actress, film director and screenwriter.

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Animal Farm (1954 film)

Animal Farm is a 1954 animated drama film directed by documentarians John Halas and Joy Batchelor.

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Anita Loos

Corinne Anita Loos (April 26, 1888 – August 18, 1981) was an American actress, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Anja Breien

Anja Breien (born 12 July 1940) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.

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Ann Hui

Ann Hui On-wah, (born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave.

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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo.

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Anna Eriksson

Anna Sofia Eriksson (born 22 April 1977) is a Finnish artist, filmmaker, composer, and singer.

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Anna Hofman-Uddgren

Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 18681 June 1947) née Hammarström; also known as Hoffman and Hofmann, was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director.

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Anna Karina

Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; 22 September 1940 – 14 December 2019) Le Monde.

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Anna Kazejak-Dawid

Anna Kazejak-Dawid (Anna Kazejak, born 15 January 1979 in Bytom) is a Polish director and screenwriter.

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Anna Melikian

Anna Melikian (Աննա Մելիքյան; Анна Меликян; born February 8, 1976) is a Russian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with various awards at major international film festivals.

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Anna Muylaert

Ana Luiza Machado da Silva Muylaert (born 21 April 1964), known professionally as Anna Muylaert, is a Brazilian film and television director, producer and screenwriter.

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Anne Fletcher

Anne Fletcher (born May 1, 1966) is an American choreographer, film director, dancer and actress.

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Anne Lévy-Morelle

Anne Lévy-Morelle (born 19 February 1961) is a Belgian film director and writer.

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Anne Mungai

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Anne Sewitsky

Anne Sewitsky (born 12 January 1978) is a Norwegian film director.

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Ansa Ikonen

Aili Ansa Inkeri Ikonen (19 December 1913 – 23 May 1989) was a Finnish film and theater actress.

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Anthology film

An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author.

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Aparna Sen

Aparna Sen (Ôporna Shen) (born 25 October 1945) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and actress who is known for her work in Bengali cinema.

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Ariane Mnouchkine

Ariane Mnouchkine (born 3 March 1939) is a French stage director.

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Ariel Award

The Ariel Award (Premio Ariel) is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema.

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Ariel Award for Best Picture

The Ariel Award for Best Picture (Ariel de Mejor Película in Spanish) is the highest award given in Mexico to a single film and is part of the Mexican Academy of Film's Ariel Award program.

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Art film

An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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Astrid Henning-Jensen

Astrid Henning-Jensen (born Astrid Smahl; 10 December 1914 – 5 January 2002) was a Danish film director, actress, editor and screenwriter.

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At Five in the Afternoon

At Five in the Afternoon (Panj é asr) is a 2003 film by Iranian writer-director Samira Makhmalbaf.

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Aud Egede-Nissen

Aud Egede-Nissen (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian actress, director and producer.

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Auguste and Louis Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.

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Auli Mantila

Auli Mantila (born 27 May 1964) is a Finnish film director, writer, producer and actress.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Auteur

An auteur ('author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded and personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, thus manifesting the director's unique style or thematic focus.

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Ava DuVernay

Ava Marie DuVernay (born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Aya of Yop City (film)

Aya of Yop City (French title: Aya de Yopougon) is a 2013 French animated film directed by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie and based on the graphic novel Aya of Yop City by the same authors.

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Baby Boom (film)

Baby Boom is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Charles Shyer, written by Nancy Meyers and Shyer, and produced by Meyers and Bruce A. Block for United Artists.

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Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa (بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States.

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Barbara Albert

Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.

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Barbara Hammer

Barbara Jean Hammer (May 15, 1939 – March 16, 2019) was an American feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer.

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Barbara Loden

Barbara Ann Loden (July 8, 1932September 5, 1980) was an American actress and director of film and theater.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.

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Bárbara Virgínia

Bárbara Virgínia, born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha (15 November 1923 – 7 March 2015), was a Portuguese actress, radio personality and film director.

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Beau Travail

Beau Travail (French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd.

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Bechdel test

The Bechdel test, also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Betty Thomas

Betty Thomas (born Betty Lucille Nienhauser; July 27, 1947) is an American director and actress.

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (film)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a 1995 Belgian-French drama film directed by Marion Hänsel.

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress.

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Biker Boyz

Biker Boyz is a 2003 American sports action drama film, directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood and written by Bythewood and Craig Fernandez, based on the 2000 New Times LA article of the same name by Michael Gougis.

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Binka Zhelyazkova

Binka Zhelyazkova (Бинка Желязкова, 15 July 1923 – 31 July 2011), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s.

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Biographical film

A biographical film or biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people.

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Bird People (film)

Bird People is a 2014 French drama film directed by Pascale Ferran and starring Josh Charles and Anaïs Demoustier.

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Birgit Hein

Birgit Hein (6 August 1942 – 23 February 2023) was a German film director, producer, performance artist, university professor, and screenwriter who has made experimental films since 1960s, with her then husband Wilhelm Hein.

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Birth control

Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.

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Black American Cinema Society

The Black American Cinema Society (BACS) was an association that promoted African American actors and filmmakers, notably through an annual awards night.

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Black women filmmakers

Black women filmmakers have made contributions throughout the history of film. Women's cinema and Black women filmmakers are women in film.

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Bodil Awards

The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association.

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Bodil Ipsen

Bodil Ipsen (30 August 1889 – 26 November 1964) was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history.

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Bodil Kjer

Bodil Kjer (2 September 1917 – 1 February 2003) was a Danish actress whose talent and charisma earned her status as a Primadonna and the title of first lady of Danish theater.

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Bollywood/Hollywood

Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy drama film directed by Deepa Mehta and starring Rahul Khanna and Lisa Ray.

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Born in Flames

Born in Flames is a 1983 American dystopian docufiction drama film directed, produced and co-written by radical intersectional feminist Lizzie Borden that explores racism, classism, sexism and heterosexism in an alternate socialist democratic United States.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Boys (1983 film)

Boys (Patsany) is a 1983 Soviet crime drama made at the film studio Lenfilm, directed by Dinara Asanova (screenplay by Yuri Klepikov).

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Brenda Chapman

Brenda Chapman (born) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director.

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Brief Encounters (film)

Brief Encounters (Korotkiye vstrechi) is a 1967 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Kira Muratova.

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Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Brumberg sisters

Valentina Semyonovna Brumberg (Валентина Семёновна Брумберг; — 28 November 1975) and Zinaida Semyonovna Brumberg (Зинаида Семёновна Брумберг; — 9 February 1983), commonly known as the Brumberg sisters, were among the pioneers of the Soviet animation industry.

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Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda az sharm foru rikht) is a 2007 Iranian film directed by Hana Makhmalbaf.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Burning Flowers

Burning Flowers (Brennende blomster) is a 1985 Norwegian drama film directed by Eva Dahr and Eva Isaksen, based on a story by Lars Saabye Christensen, and starring Torstein Hølmebakk and Lise Fjeldstad.

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By My Side Again

By My Side Again (lit) is a 1999 film directed by Gracia Querejeta, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

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Caméra d'Or

The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week).

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Camera Obscura (journal)

Camera Obscura is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal of feminism, culture, and media studies published by Duke University Press.

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Camila (film)

Camila is a 1984 Argentine drama film directed by María Luisa Bemberg, based on the story of the 19th-century Argentine socialite Camila O'Gorman.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

The Best Director Award (Prix de la mise en scène) is an award presented annually at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.

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Captain Blomet

Captain Blomet (French: Capitaine Blomet) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Andrée Feix and starring Fernand Gravey, Gaby Sylvia and Jean Meyer.

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Captain Volkonogov Escaped

Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Капитан Волконогов бежал, translit. Kapitan Volkonogov bezhal) is a 2021 Russian thriller drama film written and directed by Natalya Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov.

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Caramel (film)

Caramel (translit) is a 2007 Lebanese film and the feature film directorial debut of Nadine Labaki.

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Carla Camurati

Carla Camurati (born October 14, 1960) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker.

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Carla Simón

Carla Simón Pipó (born 22 December 1986) is a Spanish film director.

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Carmen Santos

Carmen Santos (8 June 1904 – 24 September 1952) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and film producer.

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Carnival (1981 film)

Carnival (Karnaval) is a 1981 Soviet musical comedy-drama film directed by Tatyana Lioznova.

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Carol Morley

Carol Anne Morley (born 14 January 1966) is an English film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Caroline Link

Caroline Link (born 2 June 1964) is a German TV and film director and screenwriter.

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Catarina Ruivo

Catarina Ruivo (b. Coimbra, 1971), Portuguese film director.

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Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat (born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School.

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Catherine Corsini

Catherine Corsini (born 18 May 1956) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Catherine Hardwicke

Helen Catherine HardwickeAccording to the State of Texas.

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Catriona McKenzie

Catriona McKenzie is an Australian filmmaker.

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Céline Sciamma

Céline Sciamma (born 12 November 1978) is a French screenwriter and film director.

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR), formerly known as Ubangi-Shari, is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman (6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Charlotte Rampling

Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress.

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Cheryl Dunye

Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a Liberian-American film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress.

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Chloé Zhao

Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born filmmaker.

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Chocolat (1988 film)

Chocolat is a 1988 French period drama film written and directed by Claire Denis (in her directorial debut) that follows a young girl who lives with her family in French Cameroon.

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Chris Vermorcken

Chris Vermorcken is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.

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Christine Lipinska

Christine Lipinska (born 13 May 1951) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Christopher Strong

Christopher Strong (also known as The Great Desire and The White Moth) is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film produced by RKO and directed by Dorothy Arzner.

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Chronicle of Flaming Years

Chronicle of Flaming Years (Повесть пламенныхлет, translit. Povest plamennykh let) is a 1961 Soviet World War II film directed by Yuliya Solntseva.

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Cinderella (1947 film)

Cinderella (Zolushka) is a 1947 Soviet fairy tale musical film by Lenfilm studios.

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Cinema of Australia

The cinema of Australia began with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film.

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Cinema of China

The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.

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Cinema of Denmark

Denmark has been producing films since 1897 and since the 1980s has maintained a steady stream of product due largely to funding by the state-supported Danish Film Institute.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Cinenova

Cinenova is a non-profit organisation based in London, dedicated to distributing films and videos made by women.

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City of Angels (film)

City of Angels is a 1998 American romantic fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling and starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.

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Civil Brand

Civil Brand is a 2002 thriller drama film written by Preston A. Whitmore II and Joyce Renee Lewis, and directed by Neema Barnette.

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Claire Burger

Claire Burger (born 1978) is a French film director, film editor and screenwriter.

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Claire Denis

Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Claire Devers

Claire Devers (born 20 August 1955, in Paris) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Claire Johnston (film theorist)

Claire Johnston (1940–1987) was a feminist film theoretician.

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Claudia Weill

Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance.

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Cléo de Verberena

Jacyra Martins da Silveira (26 June 1904 – 6 October 1972), known by her stage name Cleo de Verberena, was a Brazilian actress and film director.

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Cléo from 5 to 7

Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) is a 1962 French New Wave drama film written and directed by Agnès Varda.

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Cleopatra (1912 film)

Cleopatra is a 1912 American silent historical drama film starring Helen Gardner in the title role and directed by Charles L. Gaskill, based on the 1890 play written by Victorien Sardou.

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Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard (born 1 January 1965) is a British director of documentary and feature films.

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Coline Serreau

Coline Serreau (born 29 October 1947) is a French actress, film director and writer.

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Coming to Terms with the Dead

Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts) is a 1994 French drama film directed by Pascale Ferran.

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Confession of a Child of the Century

Confession of a Child of the Century (Confession d'un enfant du siècle) is a 2012 historical drama film written and directed by Sylvie Verheyde, based on Alfred de Musset's 1836 autobiographical novel of the same name.

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Copenhagen International Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival (CIFF) was a film festival held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 2003 to 2008.

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Cracking India

Cracking India (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.

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Créteil International Women's Film Festival

The Créteil International Women's Film Festival (in French Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil) is an annual event in Créteil, France, founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed.

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Cristina Perincioli

Cristina Perincioli (born November 11, 1946, in Bern, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director, writer, multimedia producer and webauthor.

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Critics' Week

Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique), until 2008 called International Critics' Week (Semaine internationale de la critique), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics.

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Daisies (film)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian arthouse surrealist experimental satirical psychological farce comedy film written and directed by Věra Chytilová.

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Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, and Ralph Bellamy.

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Danièle Thompson

Danièle Thompson (born 3 January 1942) is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter.

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Danielle Arbid

Danielle Arbid is a French filmmaker of Lebanese origin who has been directing films since 1997.

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Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written, directed and produced by Julie Dash and is the first feature film directed by an African-American woman to be theatrically released in the United States.

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Death Is a Caress

Death is a Caress (Døden er et kjærtegn) is a 1949 Norwegian film noir starring Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen and Ingolf Rogde.

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Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie.

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Debbie Isitt

Debbie Isitt (born) is an English comic writer, film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist and performer.

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Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta, (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, ''Fire'' (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).

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Deeyah Khan

Deeyah Khan (دیا خان,, born 7 August 1977) is a Norwegian documentary film director and human rights activist of Punjabi/Pashtun descent.

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Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (10 April 1932 – 15 October 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director.

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Despite the Falling Snow (film)

Despite the Falling Snow is a 2016 British Cold War espionage film directed by Shamim Sarif, adapted from her novel of the same name.

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Diana Karenne

Diana Karenne (born Leucadia Konstantia; 1888 – 14 October 1940) was a Polish film actress and director.

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Diane Kurys

Diane Kurys (born 3 December 1948) is a French director, producer, filmmaker and actress.

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Dianne Houston

Dianne Houston is an African-American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Diary for My Children

Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros.

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Die Glückspuppe

Die Glückspuppe is a 1911 Austrian silent short film directed by Jakob and Luise Fleck.

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Dinara Asanova

Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (Динара Кулдашевна Асанова; 24 October 1942 – 4 April 1985) was a Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed female filmmakers of the late Soviet Union.

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Directors Guild of America Awards

The Directors Guild of America Awards are issued annually by the Directors Guild of America.

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Dirk Bogarde

Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Doris Dörrie

Doris Dörrie (born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author.

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Dorota Kobiela

DK Welchman (née Dorota Kobiela) (born 1978) is a Polish filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer.

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Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s.

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Down in the Delta

Down in the Delta is a 1998 American-Canadian drama film, directed by Maya Angelou (in her only film directing effort) and starring Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance before her death), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.

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Dumplin' (film)

Dumplin is a 2018 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Kristin Hahn.

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Earth (1998 film)

Earth (पृथ्वी; released in India as 1947: Earth) is a 1999 Indo-Canadian period romance drama film directed by Deepa Mehta.

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Ebba Lindkvist

Ebba Johanna Bergman Lindkvist, also Lindqvist, (1882–1942) was a Swedish actress and film director.

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Edith Carlmar

Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen; 15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director.

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Efectos secundarios

Efectos Secundarios ("Side Effects") is a 2006 satire comedy-drama film directed by Issa López.

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Eisha Marjara

Eisha Marjara is a Canadian film director and writer.

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El Sur (film)

El Sur ("The South") is a 1983 drama film directed by Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice, who also wrote the screenplay.

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Elaine May

Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress.

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Elegy (film)

Elegy is a 2008 American romantic drama film directed by Isabel Coixet from a screenplay by Nicholas Meyer, based on the 2001 novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth.

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Elena Jordi

Elena Jordi (born Montserrat Casals Baque; 20 November 1882 - 6 December 1945) was the first woman in Spain to become a film director.

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Eliane Caffé

Eliane Caffé (born 1961) is a Brazilian filmmaker.

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Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress, producer and director.

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Elvira Notari

Elvira Notari (born Elvira Coda; 10 February 1875 – 17 December 1946) was an Italian film director, one of the country's early and more prolific female filmmaker.

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Emmanuelle Bercot

Emmanuelle Bercot (born 6 November 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Empty Days

Empty Days (Rien à faire) is a 1999 French drama film written and directed by Marion Vernoux and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

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Esquilache

Esquilache is a 1989 Spanish film directed by Josefina Molina.

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Ester Toivonen

Ester Toivonen (August 7, 1914 Hamina — December 29, 1979 Helsinki) was elected Miss Finland in 1933.

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Eternals (film)

Eternals is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name.

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Ethnology

Ethnology (from the ἔθνος, ethnos meaning 'nation') is an academic field and discipline that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

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European Film Award for Best Director

The European Film Award for Best Director is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in a film industry.

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European Film Awards

The European Film Awards (or European Film Academy Awards) have been presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy to recognize excellence in European cinematic achievements.

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Eva Dahr

Eva Frederikke Dahr (30 October 1958 – 12 May 2019) was a Norwegian film director, playwright, and film producer.

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Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film.

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Even the Rain

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) is a 2010 drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty.

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Everybody Dies but Me

Everybody Dies But Me (Все умрут, а я останусь; Vse umrut, a ya ostanus) is a 2008 Russian coming-of-age drama film directed by Valeriya Gai Germanika and starring Agniya Kuznetsova, Polina Filonenko and Olga Shuvalova.

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Evgeny Schwartz

Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (Евге́ний Льво́вич Шва́рц;, Kazan, Russian Empire – January 15, 1958, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Soviet writer and playwright, whose works include twenty-five plays, and screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman).

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Ewa Petelska

Ewa Petelska (24 December 1920 – 20 August 2013) was a Polish film director and screenwriter.

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Experimental film

Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984) was a Soviet actress.

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Fanny Ardant

Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and film director.

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Fanta Régina Nacro

Fanta Regina Nacro (born 4 September 1962) is well known for being the first woman from Burkina Faso to direct a feature film and is a founding member of the Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs (The African Guild of Directors and Producers).

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Fat Girl

Fat Girl (lit) is a 2001 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Catherine Breillat, and starring Anaïs Reboux and Roxane Mesquida.

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Father of Four (film)

Father of Four (Far til Fire) is a 1953 Danish family comedy directed by Alice O'Fredericks and starring Ib Schønberg and Birgitte Bruun.

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Father of the Bride (1991 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1991 American romantic comedy film starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams (in her film debut) and Martin Short.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Feminist film theory

Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. Women's cinema and feminist film theory are women in film.

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Fien Troch

Fien Troch (born 1978, in Londerzeel) is a Belgian film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E. L. James.

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Fifty Shades of Grey (film)

Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2015 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel.

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Fire (1996 film)

Fire is a 1996 Indo-Canadian erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das.

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Fish and Elephant

Fish and Elephant is documentary filmmaker and former TV hostess Li Yu's feature film directorial debut.

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Fish Tank (film)

Fish Tank is a 2009 British drama film written and directed by Andrea Arnold.

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Flora M'mbugu-Schelling

Flora M'mbugu-Schelling is a Tanzanian documentary filmmaker, best known for her film These Hands.

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Florida Jayalath

Jayathilake Arachchige Florida Cooray (born 1936 – died 2007 as ෆ්ලොරිඩා ජයලත්)), popularly as Florida Jayalath, was an actress in Sri Lankan cinema. Apart from acting, Florida also worked as a filmmaker, choreographer and a film producer. She is the first female filmmaker in Sinhala film industry.

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Flowers from Another World

Flowers from Another World (Flores de otro mundo) is a 1999 Spanish film, directed and co-written by Icíar Bollaín and starring José Sancho, Luis Tosar and Lisete Mejía.

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Forever the Moment

Forever the Moment is a 2008 South Korean drama film.

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Forugh Farrokhzad

Forugh Farrokhzad (فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.

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Frances Marion

Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens; November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.

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Frances-Anne Solomon

Frances-Anne Solomon (born 28 June 1966) is an English-Caribbean-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and distributor.

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Frauen und Film

Frauen und Film (Women and Film) is a German feminist film journal.

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Frauke Finsterwalder

Frauke Finsterwalder (born 15 December 1975) is a German film director and screenwriter.

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French New Wave

The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s.

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From the Clouds to the Resistance

From the Clouds to the Resistance (Dalla nube alla resistenza, literally From the Cloud to the Resistance) is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.

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Frozen (2013 film)

Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Frozen II

Frozen II is a 2019 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures as the sequel to Frozen (2013).

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Gabriela Roel

Gabriela Roel (born 13 December 1959) is a Mexican film and television actress.

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Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven (Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos) is a 1980 Spanish drama film directed by Pilar Miró.

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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Georgina Willis

Georgina Willis is a film director who was born in Australia and now lives in London.

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Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography

The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvyennyy institut kinematografii imyeni S. A. Gerasimova, meaning All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, Russia.

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Gerda (film)

Gerda (Герда) is a 2021 Russian drama film directed by (Natalia Kudryashova) and starring Anastasiya Krasovskaya.

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Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)Flitterman-Lewis 1996 was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic.

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Getting to Know the Big, Wide World

Getting to Know the Big, Wide World (Познавая белый свет) is a 1978 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova.

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Gia Coppola

Gian-Carla Coppola (born January 1, 1987) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Gilda de Abreu

Gilda de Abreu (23 September 1904 – 4 June 1979) was a Brazilian actress, singer, writer and film director.

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Gillian Armstrong

Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, best known for My Brilliant Career, Little Women, The Last Days of Chez Nous, and Mrs. Soffel.

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Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize.

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Ginger & Rosa

Ginger & Rosa is a 2012 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Sally Potter and distributed by Artificial Eye.

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Girlfriends (1978 film)

Girlfriends is a 1978 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Claudia Weill and written by Vicki Polon.

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Gloria (1999 Portuguese film)

Gloria (Glória) is an independent Portuguese drama film directed by Manuela Viegas and written by Joaquim Sapinho, produced at Portuguese independent production company Rosa Filmes.

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Glory Leppänen

Glory Leppänen (Renvall; 28 November 1901 — 26 October 1979) was a Finnish actress, theatre and film director, and writer.

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Goddess: How I fell in Love

Goddess: How I fell in Love (Boginya: Kak ya polyubila) is a 2004 drama film, directorial debut of Renata Litvinova.

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Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano) is a boom period in the history of Mexican cinema, which began in 1936 with the premiere of the film Allá en el Rancho Grande, and Let's Go with Pancho Villa, culminated in 1956.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television.

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Goya Award for Best Director

The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor dirección) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.

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Goya Award for Best New Director

The Goya Award for Best New Director (Premio Goya a la Mejor Dirección Novel) is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director.

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Goya Awards

The Goya Awards (Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards.

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Grace Cunard

Grace Cunard (born Harriet Mildred Jeffries; April 8, 1893 – January 19, 1967) was an American actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Gracia Querejeta

Gracia Querejeta Marín (born 13 August 1962) is a Spanish filmmaker.

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Green Revolution

The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields.

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Greta Gerwig

Greta Celeste Gerwig (born August 4, 1983) is an American actress, screenwriter, and film director.

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Grete Frische

Grete Frische (15 June 1911 – 17 August 1962) was a Danish actress, screenwriter and director.

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Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Kaur Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is a Kenyan-born British film director of Indian origin.

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Haifaa al-Mansour

Haifaa al-Mansour (هيفاء المنصور Hayfā'a al-Manṣūr; born 10 August 1974) is a Saudi Arabian film director.

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Halas and Batchelor

Halas and Batchelor was a British animation company founded by husband and wife John Halas and Joy Batchelor.

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Halyna Hutchins

Halyna Anatoliivna Hutchins (Галина Анатоліївна Хатчінс;, Андросович; April 9, 1979 – October 21, 2021) was a Ukrainian cinematographer.

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Hana Makhmalbaf

Hana Makhmalbaf (حنا مخملباف; born September 3, 1988, in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.

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Happy as Lazzaro

Happy as Lazzaro (lit) is a 2018 Italian-language fantasy drama film written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher.

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Happy, Happy

Happy, Happy (lit) is a 2010 Norwegian comedy film directed by Anne Sewitsky.

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Hatching (film)

Hatching (Pahanhautoja) is a 2022 Finnish psychological body horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm, written by Ilja Rautsi and starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen and Reino Nordin.

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Hays Code

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.

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Heaven on Earth (2008 film)

Heaven on Earth a.k.a. Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta.

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Heiny Srour

Heiny Srour (هايني سرور; born March 23, 1945) is a Lebanese film director.

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Helen Gardner (actress)

Helen Louise Gardner (September 2, 1884 – November 20, 1968) was an American stage and film actress, screenwriter, film producer and costume designer.

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Helena Cortesina

Helena Cortesina (17 July 1903 — 7 March 1984), also known as Elena Cortesina or Elena Manuela Dolores Cortés Altabas, was a Spanish film director, actor, producer, and theatrical entrepreneur.

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Helena Solberg

Helena Solberg (born June 17, 1938, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born documentarist who, since 1971, has made her career in the United States.

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Helke Sander

Helke Sander (born January 31, 1937, in Berlin) is a German feminist film director, author, actress, activist, and educator.

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Helma Sanders-Brahms

Helma Sanders-Brahms (20 November 1940 – 27 May 2014) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Hermína Týrlová

Hermína Týrlová (11 December 1900 in Březové Hory – 3 May 1993 in Zlín) was a prominent Czech animator, screen writer, and film director.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hiroshima mon amour

(lit.), is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author Marguerite Duras.

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Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 is a 2022 American fantasy comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Jen D'Angelo and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Hola, ¿estás sola?

Hola, ¿estás sola? (Hi, Are You Alone?) is a 1995 Spanish film, a road movie, starring Silke and Candela Peña. It marked the debut of Icíar Bollaín as a film director. She also co-wrote the script.

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Hope (2019 film)

Hope (Håp) is a 2019 Norwegian semi-autobiographical drama film directed by Maria Sødahl, based on the experience she faced with her husband, director Hans Petter Moland, when, nine years earlier, she had received a terminal diagnosis of brain cancer and was given by doctors only three months to live.

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Hot Pursuit (2015 film)

Hot Pursuit is a 2015 American action comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Hotel Monterey

Hotel Monterey is a 1973 American silent documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman.

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Houda Benyamina

Houda Benyamina (born 1980) is a French director and screenwriter.

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Hu Mei (director)

Hu Mei (born 2 September 1958) is a Chinese film director, television director and producer.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hypocrites (1915 film)

Hypocrites, also known as The Hypocrites and The Naked Truth, is a 1915 silent drama film written and directed by Lois Weber (1879–1939).

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I Can't Think Straight

I Can't Think Straight is a 2008 British romantic drama film directed by Shamim Sarif.

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I Like It Like That (film)

I Like It Like That is a 1994 American comedy-drama film about the trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican couple living in a poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood in the South Bronx.

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I Shot Andy Warhol

I Shot Andy Warhol is a 1996 biographical drama film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol.

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Icíar Bollaín

Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (born 12 June 1967) is a Spanish filmmaker and actress.

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Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino (4 February 1918Recorded in Births Mar 1918 Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index – 3 August 1995) was a British actress, director, writer, and producer.

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Ildikó Enyedi

Ildikó Enyedi (born 15 November 1955) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Impresa

Impresa (full name: IMPRESA Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais SA) is a Portuguese media conglomerate, headquartered in Paço de Arcos, in Oeiras municipality.

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In Between Days (film)

In Between Days is a 2006 drama film directed by So Yong Kim about a young girl from Korea and her coming of age in her new surroundings.

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In the Battlefields

In the Battlefields (Dans les champs de bataille, معارك حب maarek hob) is a 2004 Lebanese film by director Danielle Arbid.

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Inoka Sathyangani

Inoka Sathyangani Keerthinanda is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director, producer and former Chairperson of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.

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International Federation of Film Critics

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium.

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Interns (TV series)

Interns (Interny) is a Russian medical sitcom, produced by NTV-Kino.

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Isabel Coixet

Isabel Coixet Castillo (born 9 April 1960) is a Spanish film director.

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Ish Amitoj Kaur

Ish Amitoj Kaur is a filmmaker who resides in the U.S. She is best known for her films Chhevan Dariya (The Sixth River) and Kambdi Kalaai(Trembling Wrist).

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Isild Le Besco

Isild Le Besco (born 22 November 1982) is a French actress and filmmaker.

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Iskra Babich

Iskra Leonidovna Babich (И́скра Леони́довна Ба́бич; 10 January 1932 – 5 August 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.

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Issa López

Issa López is a Mexican director, writer and producer.

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It's Complicated (film)

It's Complicated is a 2009 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nancy Meyers.

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It's My Turn (film)

It's My Turn is a 1980 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin.

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Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.

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Ivan Pyryev

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and pedagogue remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema.

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Ivy Ho

Ivy Ho Sai-Hong (born 15 August 1958) is a Hong Kong screenwriter and film director.

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Jack Bond (director)

Jack Bond (born 1939) is a British film producer and director.

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Jacob Fleck

Jacob Fleck (8 November 1881 in Vienna as Jacob Julius Fleck – 19 September 1953, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman.

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Jacqueline Audry

Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations.

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Jane Arden (director)

Jane Arden (born Norah Patricia Morris; 29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982) was a British film director, actress, singer/songwriter and poet, who gained note in the 1950s.

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Jane Campion

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker.

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Je Tu Il Elle

Je Tu Il Elle ("I You He She") is a 1974 French-Belgian film by the Belgian film director Chantal Akerman.

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Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein (25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.

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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ("Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels") is a 1975 film written and directed by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

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Jeanne Labrune

Jeanne Labrune (born 21 June 1950) is a French screenwriter and film director.

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Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite.

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Jeni Thornley

Jeni Thornley (born 1948) is an Australian feminist documentary filmmaker, writer, film valuer and research associate at University of Technology, Sydney.

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Jennifer Lee (filmmaker)

Jennifer Michelle Lee (born Rebecchi; October 28, 1971) This article lists various matters noticed for hearing before the probate court, of which the relevant one is as follows: "REBECCHI, JENNIFER MICHELLE, estate - Change of name to Jennifer Michelle Lee; for hearing January 24, 1995." Available via ProQuest NewsStand.

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Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian auteur and screenwriter, a professor at Filmacademy Vienna.

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Jessie Maple

Jessie Maple (February 14, 1937 – May 30, 2023) was an American cinematographer and film director most noted as a pioneer for the civil rights of African Americans and women in the film industry.

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Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis (born August 8, 1968) is a Haitian actor and producer.

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 190? was an American actress.

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Joan Darling

Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935) is an American actress, film and television director and a dramatic arts instructor.

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Joan Micklin Silver

Joan Micklin Silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director of films and plays.

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Joan Tewkesbury

Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, writer, producer, choreographer and actress.

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Joanna Hogg

Joanna Hogg (born 20 March 1960) is a British film director and screenwriter.

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Jocelyn Moorhouse

Jocelyn Denise Moorhouse (born 4 September 1960) is an Australian screenwriter and film director.

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Jocelyne Saab

Jocelyne Saab (30 April 1948 – 7 January 2019) was a Lebanese journalist and film director.

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Johanna Vuoksenmaa

Johanna Vuoksenmaa (born 21 September 1965) is a Finnish television and film director and screenwriter who has also worked as a photographer, installation artist and a teacher.

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John Halas

John Halas OBE (born János Halász;Brian McFarlane The Encyclopedia of British Film, London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p.48 16 April 1912 – 21 January 1995) was a pioneering British animator.

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John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor.

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Josée Dayan

Josée Dayan (born 6 October 1943 in Toulouse, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Josefina Molina

Josefina Molina Reig MMT (born in Córdoba, 14 November 1936) is a Spanish feature film director, screenwriter, TV producer and scene director.

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Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko (born Josiane Balašković; 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer, and director.

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Joy Batchelor

Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Joyce Chopra

Joyce Chopra (born October 27, 1936) is an American director.

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Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1930 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist.

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Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau (born 18 November 1983) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.

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Julie Dash

Julie Ethel Dash (born October 22, 1952) is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer.

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Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy (born 21 December 1969) is a French and American actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Julie Lopes-Curval

Julie Lopes-Curval is a French film director, screenwriter, theatre director, and playwright.

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Juliet Berto

Juliet Berto (16 January 1947 – 10 January 1990), born Annie Jamet, was a French actress, director and screenwriter.

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Juliette Bruno-Ruby

Juliette Bruno-Ruby was born as Juliette Henriette Marie Leclère on 13 January 1878 in Versailles and died on 22 July 1956 in Maisons-Laffitte.

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June Mathis

June Mathis (born June Beulah Hughes, January 30, 1887 – July 26, 1927) was an American screenwriter.

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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. is a 1992 American drama film written, produced, and directed by Leslie Harris.

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K-20: Legend of the Mask

is a 2008 Japanese action film written and directed by Shimako Satō and based on a novel by Sō Kitamura and its sequel.

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Kadawunu Poronduwa

Kadawunu Poronduwa (Sinhala: කඩවුනු පොරොන්දුව, "The Broken Promise") was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema.

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Kaddu Beykat

Kaddu Beykat (Serer: "Voice of the Peasant"; also known as Lettre paysanne or Letter from My Village) is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Safi Faye.

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Kaori Momoi

is a Japanese actress.

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Karen Arthur

Karen Arthur (born August 24, 1941) is an American television and film director, producer, and actress.

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Karin Albou

Karin Albou is a French-Algerian female director, writer, editor, producer and actress.

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Kasi Lemmons

Kasi Lemmons (born Karen Lemmons, February 24, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Kasia Adamik

Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik (born 28 December 1972) is a Polish director and storyboard artist.

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Katharina Mückstein

Katharina Mückstein (born 1982) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades.

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Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker.

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Katja von Garnier

Katja von Garnier (born 15 December 1966, in Wiesbaden) is a German film director.

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Kemi Adetiba

Kemi Adetiba (born 8 January 1980) is a Nigerian filmmaker, television director and music video director, whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Sound City TV, BET and Netflix.

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Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel (1866–1946) and Charles O. Baumann (1874–1931), owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909).

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Kinuyo Tanaka

was a Japanese actress and film director.

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Kira Muratova

Kira Georgievna Muratova (Kira Gheórghievna Muratova; Кира Георгиевна Муратова; Кіра Георгіївна Мура́това; née Korotkova, 5 November 1934 – 6 June 2018) was a Ukrainian // award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style.

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Kitty Green

Kitty Green is an Australian film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter.

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Koenigsmark (1953 film)

Koenigsmark is a 1953 French-Italian drama film directed by Solange Térac and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Silvana Pampanini and Renée Faure.

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La ciénaga (film)

La ciénaga (The Swamp) is a 2001 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel in her feature directorial debut.

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La Fée aux Choux

The 1896 version of La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) is a lost film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché (then known as Alice Guy) that, according to her, featured a honeymoon couple, a farmer, pictures of babies glued to cardboard, and one live baby.

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La Musica (film)

La Musica is a 1967 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras and Paul Séban after Duras' play of the same name (fr) first performed 8 October 1965 at the Studio des Champs-Elysées.

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La Pointe Courte

La Pointe Courte is a 1955 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda (in her feature film directorial debut).

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La Souriante Madame Beudet

La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) is a short French impressionist silent film made in 1923, directed by pioneering avant-garde cinema director Germaine Dulac.

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La Vie Commence Demain

La vie commence demain is a 1950 French film directed by Nicole Védrès.

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Lady Bird (film)

Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith.

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Larisa Shepitko

Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (translit; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.

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Las furias

Las furias (Spanish for "the furies") is a 1960 Argentine drama film directed by Vlasta Lah, based on the 1950 play of the same name by Enrique Suárez de Deza.

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Lau Lauritzen Jr.

Lau Lauritzen Jr. (26 June 1910 – 12 May 1977), was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director.

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Laura Mañá

Laura Mañá Alvarenga (born 12 January 1968) is an actress, film director and screenwriter.

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Laura Mulvey

Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker.

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Laurence Ferreira Barbosa

Laurence Ferreira Barbosa (born 1958) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Léon Gaumont

Léon Ernest Gaumont (10 May 1864 – 10 August 1946) was a French inventor, engineer, and industrialist who was a pioneer of the motion picture industry.

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Léonie Yangba Zowe

Léonie Yangba Zowe or Zoe is a filmmaker from the Central African Republic.

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Lúcia Murat

Lúcia Murat (born 1949 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian filmmaker.

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Leena Manimekalai

Leena Manimekalai is an Indian filmmaker, poet and an actor.

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Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for producing Nazi propaganda.

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Leontine Sagan

Leontine Sagan (born Leontine Schlesinger; 13 February 1889 – 20 May 1974) was an Austrian-Hungarian theatre director and actress of Jewish descent.

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Leper colony

A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.

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Les Résultats du féminisme

Les Résultats du féminisme (The Consequences of Feminism) is a 1906 French silent comedy film directed by Alice Guy.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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Leslie Harris (director)

Leslie Harris is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Lester James Peries

Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාභිමාන්‍ය ලෙස්ටර් ජේම්ස් පීරිස්; 5 April 1919 – 29 April 2018) was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

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Li Yu (director)

Li Yu (born December 2, 1973) is a Chinese female film director and screenwriter.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Liliana Cavani

Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Liliane de Kermadec

Liliane de Kermadec (6 October 1928 – 13 February 2020) was a Polish-French film director and screenwriter.

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Lina Wertmüller

Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller, was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Lisa Azuelos

Lisa Azuelos (born Elise-Anne Bethsabée Azuelos; 6 November 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French director, writer, and producer.

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List of female film and television directors

This is a list of female film and television directors. Women's cinema and list of female film and television directors are women in film.

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This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women. Women's cinema and list of LGBT-related films directed by women are women in film.

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List of women's film festivals

Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry.

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Little Women (2019 film)

Little Women is a 2019 American coming-of-age period drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

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Liu Jiayin

Liu Jiayin is a Chinese independent filmmaker and educator, born in Beijing in 1981.

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Liu Miaomiao (director)

Liu Miaomiao (born 1962 in Guyuan, Ningxia) is a Chinese film director.

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Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress.

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Lizzie Borden (director)

Lizzie Borden (born 1950; some sources say 1958) is an American filmmaker, best known for her early independent films Born in Flames (1983) and Working Girls (1986).

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Lois Weber

Florence Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.

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LOL (2012 film)

LOL is a 2012 American teen romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Lisa Azuelos.

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LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

LOL (Laughing Out Loud) is a 2008 French comedy film directed by Lisa Azuelos and starring Sophie Marceau, Christa Theret, and Alexandre Astier.

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Lola Bessis

Lola Bessis (born 30 November 1992) is a French actress, screenwriter and director.

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Lone Scherfig

Lone Scherfig (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director and screenwriter.

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Lope de Vega

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 156227 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492–1659) of Baroque literature.

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Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Lotte Reiniger

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.

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Louis Hayward

Louis Charles Hayward (19 March 1909 – 21 February 1985) was a South African-born, British-American actor.

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Lucía Puenzo

Lucía Puenzo (born 28 November 1976, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine author, screenwriter and film director.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.

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Lucrecia Martel

Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals.

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Luise Fleck

Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after Alice Guy-Blaché.

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Lumière (film)

Lumière (Light) is a French drama film written and directed by Jeanne Moreau.

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Lydia Chagoll

Lydia Chagoll (16 June 1931 – 23 June 2020) was a Dutch born dancer, choreographer, film director, screenwriter, writer and actress.

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Lydia Zimmermann

Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966) is a Spanish Catalan actress and film director.

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Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is a Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer, best known for the feature films Ratcatcher (1999), Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), and You Were Never Really Here (2017).

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M (2018 Finnish film)

M is a 2018 Finnish experimental film directed by Anna Eriksson.

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Maïwenn

Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco (born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker.

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Małgorzata Szumowska

Małgorzata Szumowska (born 26 February 1973) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer, born in Kraków.

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Mabel Normand

Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter.

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Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American producer, director, actor, and studio head who was known as the "King of Comedy" during his career.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by George Miller.

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Magdalena Łazarkiewicz

Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, née Holland (born 6 July 1954 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

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Mai Zetterling

Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actress.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mamma Mia! (film)

Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name.

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Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals.

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Manju Borah

Manju Borah is a multiple international and national award-winning Indian female film director and short story writer from Guwahati, Assam.

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Manuela Viegas

Manuela Viegas (born 13 October 1958) is a Portuguese film editor and director.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Mar del Plata International Film Festival

The Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina.

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María Luisa Bemberg

María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine film writer, director and actress.

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Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Marceline Loridan-Ivens (née Rozenberg; 19 March 1928 – 18 September 2018) was a French writer and film director.

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Maren Ade

Maren Ade (born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942, Berlin, Germany) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Margarita Barskaya

Margarita Aleksandrovna Barskaya (Маргари́та Алекса́ндровна Ба́рская; 19 June 1903 – 23 July 1939) was a Soviet actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter.

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Margot Benacerraf

Margot Benacerraf (14 August 1926 – 29 May 2024) was a Venezuelan film director.

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Marguerite Abouet

Marguerite Abouet (born 1971) is an Ivorian writer of bandes dessinées, best known for her graphic novel series Aya.

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.

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Maria Kaniewska

Maria Kaniewska (27 May 1911 in Kiev – 11 December 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish actress, screenplay writer, film director.

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Maria Novaro

María Novaro (born María Luisa Novaro Peñaloza; September 11, 1951, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director.

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Maria Sødahl

Maria Sødahl (born 31 December 1965) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter who is best known for her internationally acclaimed film Hope (2019) and Limbo (2010).

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Mariana Chenillo

Mariana Chenillo (born 29 April 1977 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter, known for Nora's Will (2008), Paradise (2013) and Revolución (2010).

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Marie Amachoukeli

Marie Amachoukeli (born 16 July 1979), sometimes credited as Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, is a French film director and screenwriter of Georgian descent.

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Marie Antoinette (2006 film)

Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Marie Epstein

Marie Epstein (born Marie-Antonine Epstein; 14 August 1899, Warsaw – 24 April 1995, Paris) was an actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist.

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Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (born 26 January 1963) is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Marilou Berry

Marilou Berry (born 1 February 1983) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model.

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Marina Cicogna

Contessa Marina Cicogna Mozzoni Volpi di Misurata (29 May 1934 – 4 November 2023) was an Italian film producer and photographer.

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Marina de Van

Marina de Van (born 8 February 1971) is a French film director, screenwriter and actress.

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Marion Hänsel

Marion Hänsel (née Ackermann; 12 February 1949 – 8 June 2020) was a French-born Belgian film director, producer, actress and screenwriter.

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Marion Laine

Marion Laine is a French actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Marion Sarraut

Marion Sarraut (13 August 1938 – 12 July 2021) was a French film and theatre director.

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Marion Vernoux

Marion Vernoux (born 29 June 1966) is a French director and screenwriter.

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Mark Ruffalo

Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is an American actor.

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Marta Rodriguez

Marta Rodriguez (born 1 December 1933) is a prolific Colombian documentary filmmaker, producer, director, and writer.

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Martha Ansara

Martha Ansara (born 9 September 1942) is a documentary filmmaker whose films on social issues have won international prizes and been screened in Australia, the UK, Europe and North America.

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Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946)is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America.

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Mary Harron

Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.

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Mary Pickford

Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian actress resident in the U.S., and also producer, screenwriter, and film studio founder.

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Maryse Alberti

Maryse Alberti (born 10 March 1954) is a French cinematographer who mainly works in the United States on independent fiction films and vérité, observational documentaries.

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Marzieh Meshkini

Marzieh Meshkini (مرضیه مشکینی) (born 1969 in Tehran) is an Iranian cinematographer, film director and writer.

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Masala film

Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work.

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Mati Diop

Mati Diop (born 22 June 1982) is a French film director and actress.

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Matilde Landeta

Matilde Soto Landeta (20 September 1913 – 26 January 1999) was a Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter, the first woman to serve in those roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema (1936-1956).

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Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara (17 August 1920 – 24 October 2015) was an Irish-born naturalized American actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Maya Deren

Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; // ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 161 (517 — по старой нумерации). Л. 73об–74. (russian) – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Márta Mészáros

Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director.

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Mädchen in Uniform

("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic direction from Carl Froelich, who also funded the film.

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Me Ivan, You Abraham

Me Ivan, You Abraham (Moi Ivan, toi Abraham; italic) is a 1993 French-Belarusian film written and directed by Yolande Zauberman.

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Mehreen Jabbar

Mehreen Jabbar (Urdu: م‍ﮩ‍رين جبار) (born on 29 December 1971, is a Pakistani film and television director and producer based in New York City. She is a daughter of the Pakistani media-person Javed Jabbar.https://tribune.com.pk/story/483415/with-coke-kahani-mehreen-jabbar-highlights-the-lives-of-pakistanis/, Interview with Mehreen Jabbar on The Express Tribune newspaper, 23 December 2012, Retrieved 19 March 2017 She is also the niece of Beo Zafar.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Mermaid (2007 film)

Mermaid (Russian: Русалка, Rusalka) is a Russian 2007 fantasy comedy-drama film directed and written by Anna Melikyan.

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon is a 1943 American experimental silent short film directed by and starring wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied.

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MeToo movement

#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture, in which people publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.

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Metro Magazine

Metro Magazine is a trade magazine for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators, published in the United States since 1904, taking its current name in 1975.

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Mia Hansen-Løve

Mia Hansen-Løve (born 5 February 1981) is a French film director, screenwriter, and former actress.

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Midnight's Children (film)

Midnight's Children is a 2012 film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel of the same name.

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Miguel Delibes

Miguel Delibes Setién MML (17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement.

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Mikhail Romm

Mikhail Ilyich Romm (Михаил Ильич Ромм; – 1 November 1971) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.

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Mimí Derba

María Herminia Pérez de León, better known as Mimí Derba (9 October 1893 – 14 July 1953) was a Mexican actress, screenwriter, and film director, considered the first female film director in Mexico.

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Minas Conspiracy (film)

Minas Conspiracy (Portuguese: Inconfidência Mineira) is a 1948 Brazilian historical film directed by Carmen Santos and starring Santos, Rodolfo Mayer and Roberto Lupo.

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Mira Nair

Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018).

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Mitsou (film)

Mitsou (or Mitsou ou Comment l'esprit vient aux filles...) is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Danièle Delorme, Fernand Gravey and François Guérin.

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Mo'Nique

Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes; born December 11, 1967), known mononymously as Mo'Nique, is an American stand-up comedian and actress.

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Mona Achache

Mona Achache (born 18 March 1981) is a French-Moroccan film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Mona Fastvold

Mona Fastvold (born 7 March 1986) is a Norwegian filmmaker and actress.

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Monika Treut

Monika Treut (born April 6, 1954, in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German filmmaker.

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Moomins

The Moomins (mumintrollen) are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, picture books, and a comic strip by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland.

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Morten Korch

Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (1876–1954) was a Danish writer who wrote populist stories and romances about rural Denmark.

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Morvern Callar (film)

Morvern Callar is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Samantha Morton as the titular character.

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Moscow Zero

Moscow Zero is a 2006 film directed by María Lidón.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Muriel Box

Violette Muriel Box, Baroness Gardiner, (22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991) was an English screenwriter and director, Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Musidora

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer.

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Muzhiki!

Muzhiki! (Мужики!) is a 1981 Soviet drama film directed by Iskra Babich.

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My Baby's Daddy

My Baby's Daddy is a 2004 American comedy film, directed by Cheryl Dunye.

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My Brilliant Career (film)

My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian period drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Wendy Hughes.

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My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me is a 2003 Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling.

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Nadezhda Kosheverova

Nadezhda Nikolayevna Kosheverova (23 September 1902 22 February 1989) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter who specialized in children's films.

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Nadine Labaki

Nadine Labaki (نادين لبكي Nādīn Labikī; born February 18, 1974) is a Lebanese and Canadian actress, director, and activist.

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Nadine Monfils

Nadine Monfils (born 12 February 1953) is a Belgian writer and film director and producer.

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Nadine Trintignant

Nadine Trintignant (Marquand; born 11 November 1934) is a French filmmaker and novelist.

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Nancy Meyers

Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8, 1949) is an American filmmaker.

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Naomi Kawase

is a Japanese film director.

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Natalya Merkulova

Natalya Fyodorovna Merkulova (Наталья Фёдоровна Меркулова; born 19 September 1979 in Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian filmmaker.

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Nathalie Teirlinck

Nathalie Teirlinck (born 1985 in Brussels) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter.

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), known as ScreenSound Australia from 1999 to 2004, is Australia's audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting, and providing access to a national collection of film, television, sound, radio, video games, new media, and related documents and artefacts.

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National Film Board of Canada

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor.

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National Film Registry

The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988.

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National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts

The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, INCAA; also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board) was an agency of the Government of Argentina.

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Neema Barnette

Neema Barnette is an American film director and producer, and the first African-American woman to direct a primetime sitcom.

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Nell Shipman

Nell Shipman (born Helen Foster-Barham; October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, author, screenwriter, producer, director, animal rights activist and animal trainer.

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Nelly Kaplan

Nelly Kaplan (11 April 1931 – 12 November 2020) was an Argentine-born French writer and film director who focused on the arts, film, and filmmakers.

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Neus Ballús

Neus Ballús (born 1980) is a Catalan film director and scriptwriter.

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New German Critique

The New German Critique is a contemporary academic journal in German studies.

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Newsreel

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s.

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Ngozi Onwurah

Ngozi Onwurah (born 1966) is a British-Nigerian film director, producer, model, and lecturer.

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Nicole Védrès

Nicole Védrès (4 September 1911 – 20 November 1965), born Nicole Henriette Désirée Charlotte Cahen dit Nathan dit Rais, was a French author, columnist, essayist, journalist, screenwriter and film director.

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Nicolette Krebitz

Nicolette Krebitz (born 2 September 1972) is a German director, actress, model, and singer.

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Nina Niovilla

Antonina Elżbieta Petrykiewicz (born 1874, died 1966), better known as Nina Niovilla, was a Polish film director, screenwriter, actress, translator and a teacher.

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Nisha Ganatra

Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent.

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Nnegest Likké

Nnegest Likké is an American film director, screenwriter and producer from Oakland.

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Noémie Lvovsky

Noémie Lvovsky (born 14 December 1964) is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.

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Nollywood

Nollywood, a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood, is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.

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Nomadland

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao.

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Nora's Will

Nora's Will (Cinco días sin Nora, also released as Five Days Without Nora) is a 2008 Mexican drama film written and directed by Mariana Chenillo.

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Norma Bengell

Norma Aparecida Almeida Pinto Guimarães d'Áurea Bengell (21 February 1935 – 9 October 2013) was a Brazilian film, stage and television actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director.

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Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director)

Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya (Ольга Ивановна Преображенская, 24 July 1881 – 30 October 1971) was a Russian actress and film director, one of the first female film directors, and the first female film director in Russia.

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Olga Rautenkranzová

Olga Rautenkranzová (22 September 1891 – ?) was a Czech actress and a pioneering film director active during the silent era.

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Olivia (1951 film)

Olivia (also known as The Pit of Loneliness) is a 1951 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry, and based on the 1950 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Dorothy Bussy.

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On Body and Soul

On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről) is a 2017 Hungarian drama film written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi.

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Once is Enough

Once is Enough (French: Il suffit d'une fois) is a 1946 French comedy film directed by Andrée Feix and starring Edwige Feuillère, Fernand Gravey and Henri Guisol.

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Onnenpotku

Onnenpotku (Swedish: Lyckosparken; 'A Stroke of Luck') is a 1936 romantic comedy, notable for being the first feature-length Finnish film by a female director.

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Orlando (film)

Orlando is a 1992 period fantasy drama film loosely based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. It was written and directed by Sally Potter, who also co-wrote the score with David Motion.

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Oxhide

Oxhide, directed by Liu Jiayin, is a 2005 narrative independent Chinese film that portrays the director's family and their apartment in Beijing.

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Palme d'Or

The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Pam Cook

Pam Cook (born 6 January 1943) is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton.

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Pamela Tola

Pamela Tola (born 15 October 1981) is a Finnish actress and director.

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Paris 1900 (film)

Paris 1900 is a 1947 French documentary film directed by Nicole Védrès, and entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.

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Paris, je t'aime

Paris, je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities.

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Pascale Ferran

Pascale Ferran (born 17 April 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress.

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Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

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Patricia Mazuy

Patricia Mazuy (born 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Patty Jenkins

Patricia Lea Jenkins (born July 24, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Paw (film)

Paw (also known as Boy of Two Worlds) is a 1959 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen.

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Página 12

Página 12 (sometimes stylised as Pagina/12, Pagina|12 or Pagina12) is a newspaper published in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress.

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Penny Woolcock

Penny Woolcock (born 1 January 1950) is an Argentine filmmaker, opera director, and screenwriter.

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Peppermint Soda

Peppermint Soda (Diabolo menthe) is a 1977 French coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Diane Kurys.

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Petra Costa

Petra Costa (born 8 July 1983) is a Brazilian filmmaker and actress.

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Phat Girlz

Phat Girlz is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Nnegest Likké and starring Mo'Nique, as well as Kendra C. Johnson, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, and Joyful Drake.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Phyllida Lloyd

Phyllida Christian Lloyd, (born 17 June 1957) is an English film and theatre director and producer.

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Pietra Brettkelly

Pietra Brettkelly (born 1965) is a New Zealand filmmaker, known for her documentaries.

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Pilar Miró

Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 – 19 October 1997) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.

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Piter FM

Piter FM (Питер ФМ) is a 2006 Russian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Oksana Bychkova and starring Ekaterina Fedulova, Yevgeny Tsyganov and Alexey Barabash.

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Playground (2021 film)

Playground (Un monde) is a 2021 Belgian drama film directed by Laura Wandel.

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Pleasure (2021 film)

Pleasure is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Ninja Thyberg in her feature directorial debut.

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Poem of the Sea

Poem of the Sea (Поэма о море) is a 1958 Soviet drama film directed by Yuliya Solntseva.

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Portrait of Jason

Portrait of Jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by Shirley Clarke and starring Jason Holliday (né Aaron Payne, 1924–1998).

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Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar is a British writer and filmmaker.

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Prince of Shadows

Beltenebros, also known as Prince of Shadows, is a 1991 Spanish crime-thriller mystery film co-written and directed by Pilar Miró and starring Terence Stamp, Patsy Kensit, José Luis Gómez, Geraldine James and Simón Andreu.

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Private Benjamin (1980 film)

Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, written by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, and Harvey Miller, and starring Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, and Armand Assante.

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Quarantine (2021 film)

Quarantine (KARAntin) is a Russian-Finnish dystopian drama film written and directed by Diana Ringo.

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Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender.

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Rachel Morrison

Rachel Morrison (born April 27, 1978) is an American cinematographer and director.

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Rachel Weinberg

Rachel Guzy (25 October 1928 – 26 November 2018), better known as Rachel Weinberg, was a French film director, screenwriter and actress, Weinberg was born in Roanne, Loire, on 25 October 1928 and died on 26 November 2018, at the age of 90.

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Rakhshān Banietemad

Rakhshān Banietemad (رخشان بنی‌اعتماد; born April 3, 1954, in Tehran, Iran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter who is widely considered a premier female director and her films have been praised at international festivals as well as being popular with Iranian critics and audiences.

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Raquel Freire

Raquel Freire (born 22 June 1973, in Porto) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter and novelist.

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Ratcatcher (film)

Ratcatcher is a 1999 drama film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay.

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Ray Stark

Raymond Otto Stark (October 3, 1915 – January 17, 2004) was an American film producer and talent agent.

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Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Louisa Ferguson Sundström (born 19 October 1983) is a Swedish actress.

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Rebecca Zlotowski

Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Red Riding Hood (2011 film)

Red Riding Hood is a 2011 American romantic horror film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson.

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Red Road (film)

Red Road is a 2006 psychological thriller film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston, and Natalie Press.

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Reed Morano

Reed Morano (born April 15, 1977) is an American film director and cinematographer.

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Renata Litvinova

Renata Muratovna Litvinova (born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter.

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Renée Coleman

Renée Coleman (born January 8, 1962) is a Canadian actress who has appeared in several TV shows and movies.

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Replay (2001 film)

Replay (La répétition) is a 2001 French-Canadian drama film directed by Catherine Corsini.

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Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)

The Republican faction (Bando republicano), also known as the Loyalist faction (Bando leal) or the Government faction (Bando gubernamental), was the side in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939 that supported the government of the Second Spanish Republic against the Nationalist faction of the military rebellion.

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Rima Das

Rima Das (born 1977) is an Indian filmmaker best known for her 2017 film Village Rockstars, which won several national and international awards and became India's official entry for the 90th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

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Ripley's Game (film)

Ripley's Game is a 2002 thriller film directed by Liliana Cavani.

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Rita Azevedo Gomes

Rita Azevedo Gomes (born in 1952) is a Portuguese filmmaker.

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Ritva Arvelo

Ritva Helinä Arvelo (11 March 1921 – 26 October 2013) was a Finnish actress, director, screenwriter and a pioneer in modern dance.

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Romance (1999 film)

Romance (Romance X) is a 1999 French arthouse film written and directed by Catherine Breillat.

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Rosario Pi

Rosario Pi was a Catalan film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Ruby de Mel

Ruby Jasmine de Mel (born as රූබි ද මැල්); 4 December 1917 – 8 November 2004) was a Sri Lankan film actress in Sri Lankan cinema, stage drama and television. One of the earliest pillars in Sri Lankan film history, de Mel is best known for her roles in films Siriyalatha, Kawata Andare, Nalangana and Granny in television serial Amba Yahaluwo.

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Rukmani Devi

Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi (15 January 1923 – 28 October 1978: රුක්මණී දේවී) was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka".

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Sabiha Sumar

Sabiha Sumar (born 29 September 1961) is a Pakistani filmmaker and producer.

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Sadomasochism

Sadism and masochism, known collectively as sadomasochism, are the derivation of pleasure from acts of respectively inflicting or receiving pain or humiliation.

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Safi Faye

Safi Faye (November 22, 1943 – February 22, 2023) was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist.

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Salaam Bombay!

Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair.

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Sally El Hosaini

Sally El-Hosaini (سالى الحسينى) is a Welsh-Egyptian BAFTA nominated film director and screenwriter.

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Sally Potter

Charlotte Sally Potter (born 19 September 1949) is an English film director and screenwriter.

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Sam Taylor-Johnson

Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson (née Taylor-Wood; born 4 March 1967) is a British film director and artist.

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Sambizanga (film)

Sambizanga is a 1972 film directed by Sarah Maldoror and written by Maldoror, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and Maurice Pons, based on the 1961 novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by José Luandino Vieira.

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Samira Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf (سمیرا مخملباف, Samira Makhmalbaaf;, born 15 February 1980) is an Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Sandra Kogut

Sandra Kogut is a filmmaker born 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whose works transition between documentary and narrative fiction.

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Sangeeta (Pakistani actress)

Parveen Rizvi, better known as Sangeeta, (سنگیتا; born 14 June 1958) is a Pakistani film actress, filmmaker and director of television drama serials.

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Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 − 13 April 2020) was a French filmmaker of European and Guadeloupean descent.

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Sarah Polley

Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, political activist and retired actress.

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Sarah Projansky

Sarah Projansky is Associate Vice President for Faculty at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Sólveig Anspach

Sólveig Anspach (8 December 1960 – 7 August 2015) was an Icelandic-French film director and screenwriter.

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Scott Speedman

Robert Scott Speedman (born September 1, 1975) is a Canadian actor.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.

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Selma (film)

Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Separation (1967 film)

Separation is a 1967 British experimental psychological drama film written by and starring Jane Arden and directed by Jack Bond.

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Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.

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Seven Billiard Tables

Seven Billiard Tables (Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Gracia Querejeta.

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Seventeen Moments of Spring

Seventeen Moments of Spring (Semnadtsat' mgnoveniy vesny) is a 1973 Soviet twelve-part television series, directed by Tatyana Lioznova and based on the novel of the same title by Yulian Semyonov.

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Shaft's Big Score!

Shaft's Big Score! is a 1972 American blaxploitation action-crime film starring Richard Roundtree as private detective John Shaft.

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Shamim Ara

Shamim Ara (22 March 1938 – 5 August 2016) was a Pakistani film actress, director and producer.

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Shamim Sarif

Shamim Sarif (born 24 September 1969) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and film director of South Asian and South African heritage.

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Shashwati Talukdar

Shashwati Talukdar is an India-born academic-filmmaker based in New York City, with more than twelve films and videos to her name,Phadnis, Rohina.

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Shirley Clarke

Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.

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Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena (IAST: Śhiva Sēnā) is a right-wing Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Short Film Palme d'Or

The Short Film (Palme d'Or du court métrage) is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).

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Smooth Talk

Smooth Talk is a 1985 film directed by Joyce Chopra, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1966), which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid.

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Snub

A snub, cut, or slight is a refusal to recognise an acquaintance by ignoring them, avoiding them or pretending not to know them.

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So Yong Kim

So Yong Kim (born 1968) is a Korean American independent filmmaker.

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Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and former actress.

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Sois belle et tais-toi (1981 film)

Sois belle et tais-toi (Be Pretty and Shut Up) is a feminist documentary film by French actress and director Delphine Seyrig, shot in 1976 and released in 1981.

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Solange Térac

Solange Térac (13 February 1907 – 14 September 1993) was a French screenwriter and film director.

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Someone Else's Happiness

Someone Else's Happiness (Een ander zijn geluk) is a 2005 Belgian-Dutch film directed and written by Fien Troch.

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Something's Gotta Give (film)

Something's Gotta Give is a 2003 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Nancy Meyers.

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Sonali Gulati

Sonali Gulati is an Indian American independent filmmaker, feminist, grass-roots activist, and educator.

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Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.

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Sophie Barthes

Sophie Barthes (born 1974) is a French-American film director and screenwriter best known for her 2009 film Cold Souls.

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Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress.

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Soul Food (film)

Soul Food is a 1997 American comedy-drama film written and directed by George Tillman Jr. in his major studio debut.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Stars at Noon (2022 film)

Stars at Noon is a 2022 English-language French romantic thriller film directed by Claire Denis, based on the 1986 novel The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson, starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez, and John C. Reilly.

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Step Up (film)

Step Up is a 2006 American teen romantic dance drama film directed by Anne Fletcher (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg and a story by Adler.

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Stepan Razin (film)

Stepan Razin (Степан Разин) is a 1939 Soviet historical drama film directed by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya.

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Stephanie Allain

Stephanie Allain (born October 30, 1959) is an American film producer.

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Story of One Appointment

Story of one Appointment (Istoriya odnogo naznacheniya) is a Russian historical drama film directed by Avdotya Smirnova.

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Stranded (2001 film)

Stranded is a 2001 English-language Spanish science fiction film about a fictional first crewed mission to Mars.

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Straub–Huillet

Jean-Marie Straub (8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006.

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Sumitra Peries

Sumitra Peries (March 24, 1935–January 19, 2023) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker.

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Susanne Bier

Susanne Bier (born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker.

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Suspense (1913 film)

Suspense is a 1913 American silent short film thriller directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley.

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Suzana Amaral

Suzana Amaral Rezende (March 28, 1932 – June 25, 2020) was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter.

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Suzanne Schiffman

Suzanne Schiffman (née Klochendler; 27 September 1929 – 6 June 2001) was a French screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures.

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Svetlana Baskova

Svetlana Yurievna Baskova (Светлана Юрьевна Баскова; born 25 May 1965, Moscow) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and painter.

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Swept Away (1974 film)

Swept Away...

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sylvia Chang

Sylvia Chang (born 21 July 1953) is a Taiwanese actress, singer, director, screenwriter and producer.

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Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud (born 17 January 1971) is a French actress whose film career began in 1991.

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Sylvie Verheyde

Sylvie Verheyde (born 1967) is a French film director, actress, and screenwriter.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Take My Eyes

Take My Eyes (I Give You My Eyes) is a 2003 Spanish drama film directed and co-written by Icíar Bollaín, starring Laia Marull and Luis Tosar.

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Takeshi Kaneshiro

is a Japanese actor and singer based in Taiwan.

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Tam-Tam à Paris

Tam-Tam à Paris is a 30 minute documentary, directed by Thérèse Sita-Bella one of the fist female film makers from Africa.

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Tamer of Tigers

Tamer of Tigers (released in English as Tiger Girl, Ukrotitelnitsa tigrov) is a 1955 Soviet-era comedy film released by Lenfilm, directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Aleksandr Ivanovsky.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Taru Mäkelä

Taru Mäkelä (born 1 April 1959) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.

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Tata Amaral

Tata Amaral (born 1960, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian director, writer, producer and actress.

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Tatyana Lioznova

Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova (Татьяна Михайловна Лиознова; 20 July 192429 September 2011) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter best known for her TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973).

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Televisión Española

(acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country.

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Teresa de Jesús

Teresa de Jesús is a Spanish television mini-series produced by Televisión Española and broadcast in its Primera Cadena in 1984.

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Teresa Kotlarczyk

Teresa Kotlarczyk (born 10 October 1955) is a Polish film director and screenwriter.

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Teresa of Ávila

Teresa of Ávila, OCD (Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 15154 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.

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Teresa Villaverde

Teresa Villaverde (born 18 May 1966) is a Portuguese film director.

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Thérèse Sita-Bella

Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933–27 February 2006), born Thérèse Bella Mbida, was a Cameroonian film director who became the first woman filmmaker of Africa and Cameroon.

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The Adolescent (film)

The Adolescent (L'Adolescente) is a French drama film directed by Jeanne Moreau in 1978, released January 1979.

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The Apple (1998 film)

The Apple (سیب, translit. Sib) is the 1998 directorial debut by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.

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The Apprentice (British TV series) series 16

The sixteenth series of British reality television series The Apprentice (UK) premiered on 6 January 2022 in the UK on BBC One.

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The Ascent (1977 film)

The Ascent (Восхождение, tr. Voskhozhdeniye) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm.

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The Asthenic Syndrome

The Asthenic Syndrome (Astenicheskiy sindrom) is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Kira Muratova.

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The Beguiled (2017 film)

The Beguiled is a 2017 American Southern Gothic thriller film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, based on the 1966 novel of the same name (originally published as A Painted Devil) by Thomas P. Cullinan.

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The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring is a 2013 crime film written and directed by Sofia Coppola featuring an ensemble cast led by Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Taissa Farmiga, Claire Julien, Georgia Rock and Leslie Mann.

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The Blot

The Blot is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Lois Weber, who also co-wrote (with Marion Orth) and produced the film (with her then-husband, Phillips Smalley).

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The Bride Wore Red

The Bride Wore Red is a 1937 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner, and starring Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Robert Young and Billie Burke.

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The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom

The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom (Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma) is a 1924 Soviet film.

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The Connection (1961 film)

The Connection is a 1961 found footage feature film directed by the American experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke.

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The Cool World (film)

The Cool World is a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.

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The Green Elephant

The Green Elephant (Zelyonyy slonik, also known as Green Elephant Calf) is a 1999 Russian exploitation arthouse film directed by Svetlana Baskova.

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The Guilt Trip (film)

The Guilt Trip is a 2012 American road comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher from a screenplay written by Dan Fogelman, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, who both also served as executive producers on the film.

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The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 American independent film noir thriller co-written and directed by Ida Lupino, and starring Edmond O'Brien, William Talman and Frank Lovejoy.

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The Holiday

The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Hunger Games (film)

The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian action film directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Collins.

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The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

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The Iron Lady (film)

The Iron Lady is a 2011 biographical drama film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, a British politician who was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office.

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The Last Mistress

The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse, literally "An old mistress") is a 2007 French-Italian film based on the novel Une vieille maîtresse by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

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The Last Stage

The Last Stage (Polish: Ostatni etap) is a 1948 Polish historical drama film directed and co-written by Wanda Jakubowska, depicting her experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

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The Long Farewell

The Long Farewell (Dolgie provody) is a Soviet film drama directed by Kira Muratova.

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The Loveless

The Loveless (originally titled Breakdown) is a 1981 American outlaw biker drama film written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery, the feature film directorial debut of both directors.

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The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried is a 2000 drama film written and directed by Sally Potter, and starring Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton and John Turturro.

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The Man Who Surprised Everyone

The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Chelovek, kotoryj udivil vsekh) is a Russian film-drama directed by Aleksey Chupov and Natasha Merkulova, shot according to their own script in 2018.

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The Man with Rain in His Shoes

The Man with Rain in His Shoes is a 1998 Spanish-British romantic comedy film, written by Spanish singer-songwriter Rafa Russo, directed by Spanish filmmaker María Ripoll (in her directing debut) and starring Lena Headey, Douglas Henshall, Penélope Cruz, Mark Strong and Elizabeth McGovern with Paul Popplewell.

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The Misfortunes of Sophie

The Misfortunes of Sophie (French: Les Malheurs de Sophie) is a 1946 French comedy drama film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Madeleine Rousset, Marguerite Moreno and Michel Auclair.

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The Night Porter

The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte) is a 1974 Italian psychological war drama film co-written and directed by Liliana Cavani.

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The North Wind (film)

The North Wind (Северный ветер) is a 2021 Russian fantasy drama film directed by Renata Litvinova.

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The Notorious Bettie Page

The Notorious Bettie Page is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by Mary Harron.

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The Other Side of the Underneath

The Other Side of the Underneath is a 1972 British experimental psychological drama film written and directed by Jane Arden and starring Sheila Allen, Suzanka Fraey, Liz Danciger, Ann Lynn, and Penny Slinger.

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The Parent Trap (1998 film)

The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Nancy Meyers in her directorial debut, who also wrote with David Swift and Charles Shyer, who also producer.

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The Party (2017 film)

The Party is a 2017 British black comedy film written and directed by Sally Potter.

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The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion.

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The Power of the Dog (film)

The Power of the Dog is a 2021 Western psychological drama film written and directed by Jane Campion.

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The Proposal (2009 film)

The Proposal is a 2009 American romantic comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Peter Chiarelli.

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The Red Meadows

The Red Meadows (De røde enge) is a 1945 Danish war drama directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr. based on resistance fighter Ole Valdemar Juul's 1945 novel of the same name.

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The Road of Life (film)

The Road of Life (El camino de la vida) is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Corona Blake.

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The Secret Life of Words

The Secret Life of Words is a 2005 Spanish-Irish drama film written and directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara and Julie Christie.

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The Super Cops

The Super Cops is a 1974 action adventure film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.

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The Tramp

The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.

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The Virgin Suicides (film)

The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola in her feature directorial debut, and co-produced by her father, Francis Ford Coppola.

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The Wedding Party (2016 film)

The Wedding Party is a 2016 Nigerian romantic comedy drama directed by Kemi Adetiba.

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Thea Červenková

Terezie Císařová, known as Thea Červenková (or Tea Červenková) was the second Czechoslovak woman film director (the first one is considered to be Olga Rautenkranzová),Lopour, Jarda "krib":.

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Three Men and a Baby

Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy.

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Three Men and a Cradle

Three Men and a Cradle (Trois hommes et un couffin) is a 1985 French comedy film by Coline Serreau.

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Three Poplars in Plyushchikha

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha (Tri topolya na Plyushchikhe) is a 1968 romantic drama feature film directed by Tatyana Lioznova based on the story by Alexander Borschagovsky "Three Poplars in Shabolovka".

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Three Worlds (film)

Three Worlds (Trois mondes) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Catherine Corsini.

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Tilda Swinton

Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress.

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Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, director, and producer.

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Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi (تینا غروی born 1 July 1972) is an Iranian-born British BAFTA and Sundance nominated artist, director and screenwriter.

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Tonie Marshall

Tonie Marshall (29 November 1951 – 12 March 2020) was a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, founded in 1976 and taking place each September.

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Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by María Ripoll.

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Tove (film)

Tove is a 2020 Finnish biographical film about Swedish-speaking Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins.

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Tove Jansson

Tove Marika Jansson (9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author.

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Tracey Edmonds

Tracey Elaine Edmonds (née McQuarn; born February 18, 1967) is an American businesswoman, television producer and personality.

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Três Dias Sem Deus

Três Dias Sem Deus is a 1945 Portuguese drama film directed by Bárbara Virgínia.

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Triumph of the Will

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl.

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Twice as Nice

Twice as Nice is a 1989 drama film directed by Jessie Maple and starring Pamela McGee, Paula McGee, and Cynthia Cooper-Dyke.

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Twilight (2008 film)

Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer.

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Two Days

Two Days (Dva dnya) is a 2011 Russian romantic comedy-drama film directed by Avdotya Smirnova.

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Two Fathers, Two Sons

Two Fathers, Two Sons (Dva otsa i dva syna) is Russian television sitcom produced by the company Yellow, Black and White.

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Ud i den kolde sne

Ud i den kolde sne is a 1934 Danish comedy film directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr. and Alice O'Fredericks.

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UK Film Council

The UK Film Council (UKFC) was a non-departmental public body set up in 2000 to develop and promote the film industry in the UK.

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University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia.

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University of Technology Sydney

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Unni Straume

Unni Straume (born 2 October 1955) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter.

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Unspoken (film)

Unspoken (Non-dit) is a 2008 Belgian drama film.

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Upper class

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.

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Ursula Meier

Ursula Meier (born 24 June 1971) is a French-Swiss film director and screenwriter.

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Urszula Antoniak

Urszula Antoniak (born 1968 in Częstochowa, Poland) is a Polish-Dutch film director.

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Vagabond (1985 film)

Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi, "with neither shelter nor law") is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire.

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Valérie Donzelli

Valérie Donzelli (born 2 March 1973) is a French actress, filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Valeria Carla Federica Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi (born 16 November 1964), is an Italian and French actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Valeriya Gai Germanika

Valeriya Gai Alexandrovna Germanika (Валерия Гай Александровна Германика, born Valeriya Igorevna Dudinskaya (Вале́рия И́горевна Дуди́нская); born 1 March 1984, Moscow) is a Russian film director dedicated to the topics of coming-of-age.

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Valie Export

Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist.

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Vanity Fair (novel)

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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Véra Belmont

Véra Belmont (born 17 November 1932) is a French film producer, director and screenwriter.

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Víctor Erice

Víctor Erice Aras (born 30 June 1940) is a Spanish film director.

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Věra Chytilová

Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema.

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Vibeke Løkkeberg

Vibeke Løkkeberg (Kleivdal; born 22 January 1945) is a Norwegian film actress and director.

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Vibration

Vibration is a mechanical phenomenon whereby oscillations occur about an equilibrium point.

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Vicky Jenson

Victoria Jenson (born March 4, 1960) is an American film director of both live-action and animated films.

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Victoria (2008 film)

Victoria is a 2008 French-Canadian road movie directed by and starring Anna Karina in her last film role before her death a little over a decade after it was released.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Vijaya Nirmala

Vijaya Nirmala (born Nidudavolu Nirmala; 20 February 1946 – 27 June 2019) was an Indian actress, director, and producer known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema along with a few Malayalam and Tamil films.

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Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes (born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker.

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Visão

Visão is a Portuguese news magazine published weekly in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Vitagraph Studios

Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio.

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Vivre ensemble

Vivre ensemble is a 1973 French drama film written, directed by and starring Anna Karina.

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Vladimir Gardin

Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema.

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Wadjda

Wadjda (translit) is a 2012 Saudi Arabian drama film, written and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour (in her feature directorial debut).

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

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Wanda (film)

Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role.

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Wanda Jakubowska

Wanda Jakubowska (10 November 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Wasp (2003 film)

Wasp is a 2003 British short film written and directed by Andrea Arnold.

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Water (2005 film)

Water is a 2005 comedy drama and thriller film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap.

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We Meet at Tove's

We Meet at Tove's (Så mødes vi hos Tove) is a 1946 Danish drama directed by Alice O'Fredericks and Grete Frische.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin (film)

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2011 psychological thriller drama film directed by Lynne Ramsay from a screenplay she co-wrote with Rory Stewart Kinnear, based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Lionel Shriver.

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What Women Want

What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt.

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When the Sea Rises

When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte...) is a 2004 French-Belgian romantic comedy film directed by Yolande Moreau and Gilles Porte.

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Where Are My Children?

Where Are My Children? is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber and stars Tyrone Power Sr., Juan de la Cruz, Helen Riaume, Marie Walcamp, Cora Drew, A.D. Blake, Rene Rogers, William Haben and C. Norman Hammond.

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Wings (1966 film)

Wings (Крылья, tr. Krylya) is a 1966 Soviet black and white drama film directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography.

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Woman's film

The woman's film is a film genre that includes women-centered narratives, female protagonists and is designed to appeal to a female audience. Women's cinema and woman's film are women in film and women's entertainment.

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Women in film

Women are involved in the film industry in all roles, including as film directors, actresses, cinematographers, film producers, film critics, and other film industry professions, though women have been underrepresented in creative positions.

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Women of Ryazan

Women of Ryazan or The Peasant Women of Riazan (Baby ryazanskie) is a 1927 Soviet silent drama film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and co-directed by Ivan Pravov, starring Kuzma Yastrebitsky, Olga Narbekova and Yelena Maksimova.

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Women Talking (film)

Women Talking is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley.

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Women Talking (novel)

Women Talking (2018) is the seventh novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews.

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Women's suffrage in film

Women's suffrage, the legal right of women to vote, has been depicted in film in a variety of ways since the invention of narrative film in the late nineteenth century.

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Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches

Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (Ne bolit golova u dyatla) is a 1974 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Dinara Asanova.

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Working Girls (1986 film)

Working Girls is a 1986 American independent drama film, written (with Sandra Kay), produced and directed by Lizzie Borden working with cinematographer Judy Irola.

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Wuxia

italic (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.

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Xiaolu Guo

Xiaolu Guo FRSL (born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, whose films and writing explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.

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Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February (O.S. 23 January) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia.

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Yasmin Ahmad

Yasmin binti Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009) was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter.

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Yellow Is Forbidden

Yellow Is Forbidden is a 2018 New Zealand documentary film directed by Pietra Brettkelly.

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Yentl (film)

Yentl is a 1983 American romantic musical drama film directed, co-written, co-produced by, and starring American entertainer Barbra Streisand.

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Yim Soon-rye

Yim Soon-rye (born January 1, 1961) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

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Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Rundradion Ab), abbreviated as Yle (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926.

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Yolande Moreau

Yolande Moreau (born 27 February 1953) is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter.

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Yolande Zauberman

Yolande Zauberman is a French film director and screenwriter.

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You Were Never Really Here

You Were Never Really Here (released as A Beautiful Day in France and Germany) is a 2017 neo-noir crime psychological thriller film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay.

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Yuliya Solntseva

Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (Ю́лия Ипполи́товна Со́лнцева; born Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova, 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director.

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Yvonne Welbon

Yvonne Welbon is an American independent film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Chicago.

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Zabou Breitman

Zabou Breitman (born Isabelle Breitman; 30 October 1959), or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director.

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Zaida Bergroth

Zaida Bergroth (born 8 February 1977) is a Finnish film director best known for her 2020 film Tove.

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Zero Chou

Zero Chou (born 24 July 1969) is a Taiwanese director and screenwriter.

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American political action thriller film directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow, and written and produced by Mark Boal.

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1996 Cannes Film Festival

The 49th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1996.

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1999 Cannes Film Festival

The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999.

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27 Dresses

27 Dresses is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, and starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden.

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39th Berlin International Film Festival

The 39th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1989.

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42nd Berlin International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1992.

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85th Academy Awards

The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (EST).

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See also

Cinema by culture

• Arab cinema
• Balochi cinema
• Chakma cinema
• Cinema of Bengal
• Cinema of Punjab
• Cinema of the Middle East
• Dhallywood
• Filmfarsi
• Jewish cinema
• Kokborok Cinema
• Kurdish cinema
• Langmani Haduk
• Marathi cinema
• Tamil cinema
• Telugu cinema
• Women's cinema

Women in film

• Black women filmmakers
• Celluloid ceiling
• F-rating
• Feminist film theory
• From Reverence to Rape
• Gender in horror films
• List of LGBT-related films directed by women
• List of comic-based films directed by women
• List of female Academy Award winners and nominees for non-gendered categories
• List of female film and television directors
• List of films directed by women
• Popcorn Venus
• The ReFrame Stamp
• Woman's film
• Women in African cinema
• Women in documentary film
• Women in film
• Women's cinema

Women's entertainment

• Chick flick
• Josei manga
• Shōjo manga
• Shōjo shōsetsu
• Woman's film
• Women's cinema
• Women's erotica
• Women's magazines

References

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