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Women In Film

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Women In Film

A brief history of women in World War Two movies

by Lena Hanafy

These films show the dif­fer­ent ways women joined the war effort, often away from the home front.
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Women In Film

25 new films by female directors you need to see

by Eve Watling

2017 is shap­ing up to be an excep­tion­al year for women behind the camera.
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Women In Film

How witches reclaimed their rightful place in popular culture

by Elisabeth O’Neill

Twen­ty years since Buffy first hit our screens, fem­i­nist hor­ror fan­tasies are firm­ly back in fashion.
Two women wearing leather jackets standing in a wooded area.
Women In Film

At ClexaCon, a moment of anger turned into action for LGBTQ+ women

by Ella Donald

A recent con­ven­tion saw new­ly empow­ered fans take a stand against cyn­i­cal queer representation.
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First Person

Anna Biller on The Love Witch and how she crafts spellbinding female fantasies

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

The Amer­i­can film­mak­er talks sex, love and every­thing in between.
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Women In Film

It Felt Like Love: A celebration of 50 great female filmmakers

by Little White Lies

Per­son­al odes to some of the finest women direc­tors from around the world.
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In Praise Of

In praise of 9 to 5 and the ’80s career woman

by Simran Hans

How a social­ist fem­i­nist fan­ta­sy kick­start­ed a trend for female-front­ed main­stream comedies.
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Women In Film

Alice Lowe’s advice to women working in the film industry

by Katherine McLaughlin

The Pre­venge direc­tor on how she owned her wom­an­hood by flip­ping a per­ceived weak­ness into a strength.
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Women In Film

The audacious ideologies of indie cinema’s female saviours

by Kate Jackson

Tal­ent­ed film­mak­ers like Desiree Akha­van and Ingrid Junger­mann are mak­ing their voic­es heard.
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Women In Film

Why the world really doesn’t need an all-male Bad Moms

by Mike Tsenti

A role rever­sal spin­off to this year’s sur­prise sum­mer hit would be a step back for gen­der diversity.