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This screening presents Episodes 4–6 of Mark Cousins’ fascinating documentary Women Make Film, exploring subjects including staging, journey, discovery, adulthood/childhood, economy, editing, point of view, close-ups, realism and dreams.

Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Adjora Andoh and Sharmila Tagore, it includes discussions of films such as Unrelated 2007 (Dir. Joanna Hogg), American Honey 2016 (Dir. Andrea Arnold), Big 1988 (Dir. Penny Marshall), Winter's Bone 2010 (Dir. Debra Granik), Appropriate Behaviour 2014 (Dir. Desiree Akhavan), Sambizanga 1972 (Dir. Sarah Maldoror), Proof 1991 (Dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse), Xiu-Xiu: The Sent Down Girl 1998 (Dir. Joan Chen), and Daisies 1966 (Věra Chytilová).

Ages 15+