Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.
Granito
Sita Sings the Blues
Days of Gray
Phantom Love
Wavemakers
!Women Art Revolution
Graveyard Alive
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
On Directing
Stay Until Tomorrow
The Artists
Love and Other Anxieties
Women of FIX
It’s no secret that women are vastly underrepresented in film, in front of and especially behind the camera. While Fandor surpasses industry averages in the number of films by women in our collection, as well as the number of female filmmakers in our Filmmaker Initiative (FIX), there is still a long way to go.
These twenty feature films are just a sampling of the quality selections available from the Women of FIX.
Selected Films
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!Women Art Revolution
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its...Watch Movie
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Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Director Josephine Decker's highly-acclaimed second feature unfolds with the lyricism and inexorable sense of tragedy of an ancient Appalachian murder ballad. Indie icon Joe Swanberg delivers a beautifully understated performance as Akin, a soft-spoken farmworker who takes a...Watch Movie
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Phantom Love
It is difficult to imagine a better film about a woman's world of passions, desires, dreams, relations and reflections than Nina Menkes' PHANTOM LOVE. Shot in 35mm black-and-white with Director of Photography Christopher Soos' sublime lighting design, the film follows Lulu (Marina Shoif) on a...Watch Movie
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Days of Gray
It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. No things are owned except the essentials. All must wear masks when venturing from home. All adult males must protect society from outsiders who do not follow the rules. Faith is dead. Hope is dead. Joy is dead....Watch Movie
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On Directing
ON DIRECTING is a documentary film that features filmmakers Bille August, Roland Joffé, Agnès Varda and Wim Wenders. Told from the point-of-view of "life-reflecting art," the film explores the filmmaker's journey of self-discovery. Interviews, movie clips and scenes of black and white bring forth...Watch Movie
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Stay Until Tomorrow
Nina is a former teen star who quit acting to go to college, left college to travel the world, then became attached to the lifestyle of an international drifter. Several years later, she drops in on her childhood friend Jim, a reserved librarian, and asks to crash for a few...Watch Movie
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What Other Couples Do
This frisky comedy finds several thirties-ish couples on variable rungs of the Los Angeles show-business ladder gathering for a dinner party that is by turns competitive, uncomfortable, fidelity-testing and marriage-repairing. A possibly ill-advised game of “Seven Minutes in...Watch Movie
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Wavemakers
Maurice Martenot dreamed of sound springing from silence. Amid the chaos of the Great War, the young French wireless telegraph operator became enthralled by the unusual interference produced by his radio’s vacuum tubes. He envisioned of an instrument that would turn the raw material of...Watch Movie
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The Wife Master
Forty year old Bora is an unemployed, gay misogynist who still lives at home. When he is kicked out, he must find a way to support himself. He agrees to a shady business deal, marrying a Cambodian immigrant for money. When the money runs out, he marries another wife, followed by another and...Watch Movie
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The Time We Killed
The post-9/11 political situation is refracted through an isolated female subjectivity in Jennifer Reeves' bold foray into narrative filmmaking. "Terrorism brought me out of the house," says poet Robyn (Lisa Jarnot) in her winding voiceover, "But the War on Terror drove me...Watch Movie
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Your Day is My Night
At home in New York City, Lynne Sachs became intrigued with stories about the "shift bed" people of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a collective of Chinese performers and workers who live in an old apartment building on lower Manhattan’s Hester Street. With the camera magic of Sean...Watch Movie
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The Artists
Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees...Watch Movie
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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
From one of the seminal theatrical events of the 1990s, on Ron Vawter's stunning performance piece ROY COHN / JACK SMITH, Jill Godmilow has crafted a dramatically deft, comic and terrifying film diptych of queer-on-queer. Roy Cohn, the homophobic right-wing lawyer and sleazy...Watch Movie
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Love and Other Anxieties
Faced with the reality that her only child will flee the nest for college, film-funder turned filmmaker Lyda Kuth gets anxious not only about how her daughter will fare in today’s world of love and romance, but also about her relationship with her husband of twenty years. What...Watch Movie
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Something Ventured
Conceived by co-executive producer Paul Holland and directed by Emmy Award winning filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, SOMETHING VENTURED tells the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in...Watch Movie
