My Mom Jayne
Dir. Mariska Hargitay
Unlike the other documentaries depicting “Hollywood’s smartest dumb blonde”, My Mom Jayne takes on a different approach to Jayne Mansfield.…
Sound of Falling
Dir. Mascha Schilinski
Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…
Bob Trevino Likes It
Dir. Tracie Laymon
With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…
Sorry, Baby
Dir. Eva Victor
In Sorry, Baby, an unspeakable act of cruelty disrupts Agnes’ ambitious rise to the top. Despite being a literature professor,…
Butterfly in the Sky
Dir. Bradford Thomason & Brett Whitcomb
For the longest time, television seemed to be the antithesis to reading– part of that belief still lingers to this…
Black Box Diaries
Dir. Shiori Itō
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…
The Girl with the Needle
Dir. Magnus von Horn
Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…
All Shall Be Well
Dir. Ray Yeung
While the film is calm, contemplative, and never goes into histrionics, there’s a deep-seated anger in All Shall Be Well…
Stonewalling
Dir. Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light is a political film that has many smart and moving things to say about the…
Bird
Dir. Andrea Arnold
Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…
My Love Affair with Marriage
Dir. Signe Baumane
It’s not often you get a female perspective on the USSR, much less a female artist with little means. Signe…
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Dir. Anna Hints
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
Kokomo City
Dir. D. Smith
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
Chicken for Linda!
Dir. Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach
While the market for animation is mostly dominated by American 3D and Japanese anime, once in a while, a film…
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize
When vampires choose not to kill a human, it’s usually played up with so much drama, angst, and maybe a…
Judy Blume Forever
Dir. Davina Pardo & Leah Wolchok
Judy Blume, the author behind enduring classics like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Superfudge, and Forever, gifts us…
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dir. Nicole Newnham
Feminism has made plenty of strides in multiple areas, but even in the era of free love, talking about sex…
Swan Song
Dir. Chelsea McMullan
If you’re hard working and well-situated enough, you get to chase and achieve and live out your dreams for your…
Cow
Dir. Andrea Arnold
The film unfolds in the rhythm of a cow’s life: birth, mating, feeding, milking, checkups. Soon, these events become regular…
She Said
Dir. Maria Schrader
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
Nothing Compares
Dir. Kathryn Ferguson
Nothing Compares weaves a poignant story about one of the most misunderstood artists of our time, Sinéad O’Connor. The iconoclast…
The Ugly Stepsister
Dir. Emilie Blichfeldt & Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt
There are plenty of versions of the Cinderella story, but none as brutal and nauseating as The Ugly Stepsister. For…