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As previously reported, Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist will be opening the festival, but will screen out of competition. 23 films make up the rest of the Out of Competition films (this includes special events.) Our best guesstimate is that there are 6 women directed films with women co-directing 2 of the 6.
And in Orrizonti (Horizons), which celebrates new trends in world cinema, there are 4 women directed films out of 18.
Here are the women directed movies:
Opening Film (Out of Competition):
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mira Nair
In Competition:
Fill the Void – Rama Bursztyn (with Yigal Bursztyn)
La Cinquieme Saison --Jessica Woodworth (with Peter Brosens)
Un Giorno Speciale -- Francesca Comencini
Linhas de Wellington -- Valeria Sarmiento
Out of Competition:
Love Is All You Need -- Susanne Bier
Anton’s Right Here -- Lyubov Arkus
It Was Better Tomorrow -- Hinde Boujemaa (not 100% sure of Boujemaa’s gender)
Clarisse -- Liliana Cavani
Sfiorando il muro -- Silvia Giralucci (with Luca Ricciardi)
El impenetrable -- Fausta Quattrini (with Daniele Incalcaterra)
Orrizonti:
Wadjda -- Haifaa Al Mansour
Leones -- Jazmin Lopez
Yema -- Djamila Sahraoui
Araf -Somewhere In Between -- Yesim Ustaoglu
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Siba Shakib | July 29, 2012 3:09 AM
Thank you dear Melissa, for keeping us updated and hence encouraging us women in movies to go on and never to give up, as you show us examples of women who did actually make it.
All the best to you
warm regards from very HOT Italy,
Siba
Siba Shakib | July 29, 2012 3:09 AM
Thank you dear Melissa, for keeping us updated and hence encouraging us women in movies to go on and never to give up, as you show us examples of women who did actually make it.
All the best to you
warm regards from very HOT Italy,
Siba
Marian | July 26, 2012 6:02 PM
The woman who will know for sure about Hinde Boujemaa is Beti Ellerson at African Women in Cinema: http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/About.html
Carla Zoogman | July 26, 2012 5:21 PM
Hi Melissa and Karensa,
Please keep those messages about female projects and recognition coming. How different would the current news be - in such places as Penn State and Aurora, Colorado - if more women were in positions of power? Also, with more female leadership and input, how would the content of films - and its influence on behavior - be different?