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The contributions of several gifted female directors have shaped the history of cinema, with some of the most influential figures paving the way for up-and-coming female directors.

When fantasy was a matter of life and death…

As environmental concerns grow more intense, it’s time we formed a sustainable cinematic canon.

IDFA Guest of Honor Wang Bing selects top 10 Chinese films of recent decades.

Thematically and stylistically, Storm de Hirschs Goodbye in the Mirror is a bizarre amalgam of films by Varda, Cassavetes, Akerman, Wishman, and a dozen other directors working across mainstream, independent, and avant-garde contexts.

As the London short film festival starts, Bailey-Bond selects her all-time favourites – in which necrophilia, disappointment and masculinity feature heavily

Sight and Sound magazine has again issued two lists of the allegedly greatest films ever made—one lineup based on a poll of critics, the other on a poll of directors.

For the first time in the poll’s 70-year history, a film by a female filmmaker takes the top spot: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

No, weve never heard of the new

The drama is among several by female and Black directors in the respected once-a-decade survey, last conducted in 2012.