Films Directed by Women

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. The relationship between band members Cherie Currie and Joan Jett is also explored.

A young woman engaged to be married finds herself in an affair with her soon-to-be stepmother's lesbian daughter.

Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

A unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.

Trying to escape her tumultuous home life, Naama, 17, indulges in alcohol and drugs, but everything changes when she meets a sexy, free-spirited new girl at school and the two become more than fast friends.

An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.

In the well-to-do suburbs of a small town, a group of pretty average, well-adjusted sixteen and seventeen year olds are ordinary adolescents who take a singular path.

The story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.

The relationship between two friends deepens during an impromptu road trip.

During World War II, sisters Dottie and Kit join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.

It's the start of the spring term in a small northern town, heralding swimming lessons, hanging out with best friends, new classes and new possibilities. But this year, things are different for 14-year-old Sam. While her friends are moving on, focusing on boys, experimenting with drugs, Sam is too uncomfortable to even take off her bathing suit in front of the other girls. After landing herself into trouble, she is forced to work as a cleaner at the retirement home run by her mother. Sam finds unexpected and unlikely friendships with two of the retirement home's residents who end up teaching Sam a few things about growing up and growing old.

A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

A fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California and to get away from her complicated mother and recently-unemployed father.

A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.

The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.

Ellie learns that her estranged father has died. She reluctantly attends the funeral in the his small Texas hometown. As she finds glimpses of the father she once knew, she discovers a new attitude towards friendship, loyalty and family.

In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.

Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Best friends Laura and Tyler fellow deviants, enablers and co-dependents. Laura is getting married and their booze and drug-fuelled Thelma and Louise life is in jeopardy and finds herself suspended between the two unable to give either up.

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

The night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.