164 minutes of women finally getting the director's chair — and the mic.
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Direction
Two female directors interviewing female directors about directing.
Production
Archival footage that proves how much history got buried.
Director
Guylaine Dionne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's structure mirrors its argument: by placing Ottinger and Novaro in conversation, it constructs a hidden canon the industry refused to build.
Released in 2016, this predates #MeToo and the 2018 Cannes protest—making it eerily prescient about conversations that would explode two years later.
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