#women directors

[inthedarktrees]

Zuzana Částková & Marie Verner

Electra (2023) dir. Daria Kashcheeva

[uspiria]

Double Labyrinthe (1976) dir. Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki

[gael-garcia]

Zar Amir Ebrahimi in Shayda (2023, Noora Niasari)

[fyeahmovies]

BOTTOMS (2023) dir. Emma Seligman

[shesnake]

“I think we went with that kind of (purple) color because we thought it would be regal... We also talk a lot about like, Stewy would say 'Everyone's gonna wear black. I'm not.’”

Arian Moayed as Stewy Hosseini in Succession season 4 episode 4 (2023) dir. Lorene Scafaria

[denastudio]

I was always obsessed with the pearlescent pink poker chips in Marie Antoinette (2006)

[gugumbathraw]

Rye Lane (2023) dir. Raine Allen-Miller

[maggiecheungs]

Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste in EVE'S BAYOU (1998) dir. Kasi Lemmons

[mooooonflower]

The Apple, Samira Makhmalbaf

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2024: [6/52] Polite Society, dir. Nida Manzoor (UK, 2023)

I mean, what is it with men, am I right? I’m no expert, but they just seem to destroy things: the economy, the ozone, the rainforests. I just – I don’t know. It’s like the whole universe revolves around them, bending to their will. Maybe it’s time the universe bends to someone else.

[dailyworldcinema]

THE BLUE CAFTAN (2022) dir. Maryam Touzani

[nymphastral]

“Gentlemen. I find it strange. You are poets, each one of you and speak of your muse in the feminine. And yet you appear to feel neither tenderness nor respect towards your wives, nor towards females in general.”

Orlando (1992) directed by Sally Potter

[uspiria]

Double Labyrinthe (1976) dir. Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki

[gael-garcia]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

[popculty]

“There was a point where everyone in town had said no to Polite Society, and it really knocked my confidence.” She even remembers people telling her: “‘My influences are too male.’ I’m like, ‘Who has been making cinema?!’”

The film was greenlighted thanks to the success of We Are Lady Parts, which premiered in 2021. She wrote the show after feeling demoralized by some of the offers she was getting, like being asked to co-write a project with a white male writer “and just be the brown person who can give that point of view and the rubber-stamping of his stuff.” Similarly, she was demoralized by the one-dimensional portrayals of Muslim women on screen, such as stories with “a misery porn vibe,” which bore no resemblance to her life. “I’d just been asked to do lots of really annoying shows, being asked to write dramas about Muslim women being oppressed, long-suffering,” she said. “The annoyance of having been asked to write all this stuff that wasn’t my experience of being a Muslim woman made me create Lady Parts.”

As with Polite Society, when she started pitching We Are Lady Parts, she met a lot of resistance. “We Are Lady Parts got turned down basically everywhere, except for one place, and that was Channel 4 and then Peacock,” she said. “It was a lot of people being like, ‘I don’t think we can do this. Is this offensive? Are people going to get upset?’... I’m like, ‘This is just a Muslim woman expressing joy!’”

[shesnake]

She knew it was the best he could offer. It was not enough.

She dropped her hand.

— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows.