52 Films By Women
In 2021, I'm going to try to watch at least 52 feature films directed (or co-directed) by female-identifying filmmakers for no particular reason beyond the acknowledgement that my taste tends to skew towards male directors and the cinephilic challenge seems both interesting and valuable. I'm not going to make a set list of films beforehand because I'd rather this was somewhat organic, so I'm just going to list the films that I watch here as a running total. Also, I'm not including rewatches because that feels like cheating. Same goes for shorts and mid-length works, as arbitrary as that is.
Current Total: 53/52
01. THE PIANO (Jane Campion, 1993)
02. SMOOTH TALK (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
03. SIMONE BARBES OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980)
04. SWEETIE (Jane Campion, 1989)
05. TWO FRIENDS (Jane Campion, 1986)
06. THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Jane Campion, 1996)
07. HOLY SMOKE (Jane Campion, 1999)
08. IN THE CUT (Jane Campion, 2003)
09. MY TWENTIETH CENTURY (Ildiko Enyedi, 1989)
10. MAGIC HUNTER (Ildiko Enyedi, 1994)
11. SHAPE OF RED (Yukiko Mishima, 2020)
12. WALKING AND TALKING (Nicole Holofcener, 1996)
13. LOVELY AND AMAZING (Nicole Holofcener, 2001)
14. FRIENDS WITH MONEY (Nicole Holofcener, 2006)
15. PLEASE GIVE (Nicole Holofcener, 2010)
16. THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (Maren Ade, 2003)
17. TOMBOY (Celine Sciamma, 2011)
18. JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan, 2001)
19. ENOUGH SAID (Nicole Holofcener, 2013)
20. SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME (Chloé Zhao, 2015)
21. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020)
22. NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, 1990)
23. I CAN'T SLEEP (Claire Denis, 1994)
24. CHARM CIRCLE (Nira Burstein, 2021)
25. SPLINTERS (Natalia Garayalde, 2020)
26. THE SILENCE OF THE MOLE (Anais Taracena, 2021)
27. WHITE ON WHITE (Viera Čakányová, 2020)
28. RIVEROCK (Paula Gaitán, 2020)
29. RAW (Julia Ducournau, 2016)
30. SIMON, THE MAGICIAN (Ildiko Enyedi, 1999)
31. PASSION (Sylvia Chang, 1986)
32. MARY FROM BEIJING (Sylvia Chang, 1992)
33. AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (Jane Campion, 1990)
34. SIAO YU (Sylvia Chang, 1995)
35. THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS (Nicole Holofcener, 2018)
36. TONIGHT NOBODY GOES HOME (Sylvia Chang, 1996)
37. TEMPTING HEART (Sylvia Chang, 1999)
38. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
39. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, 2016)
40. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021)
41. TRUE THINGS (Harry Wootliff, 2021)
42. ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS (Wang Qiong, 2021)
43. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, 2021)
44. TITANE (Julia Ducournau, 2021)
45. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, 2021)
46. PET SEMATARY (Mary Lambert, 1989)
47. PET SEMATARY II (Mary Lambert, 1992)
48. HEART (Jeong Ga-young, 2019)
49. PETITE MAMAN (Celine Sciamma, 2021)
50. EAR FOR EYE (debbie tucker green, 2021)
51. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer & Lily Wachowski, 2012)
52. JUPITER ASCENDING (Lana Wachowski & Lily Wachowski, 2015)
53. THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS (Lana Wachowski, 2021)
Last Updated: 23/12/21