APURSANSAR'S FEMALE DIRECTORS CANON

By: apursan​sar

List inspired by Kenji and the Astro-T​ofuprax​ographe​r.

only one film per director…

Top 100, in order of preference

• 01
  Sambizanga
  Sarah Maldoror
• 02
  What Happened to This City?
  Deepa Dhanraj
• 03
  Black Harvest
  Robin Anderson
• 04
  Leviathan
  Verena Paravel
• 05
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 06
  Everyone Else
  Maren Ade
• 07
  The Death of Empedocles
  Danièle Huillet
• 08
  Shara
  Naomi Kawase
• 09
  Ivan & Abraham
  Yolande Zauberman
• 10
  Mafrouza - Oh Night!
  Emmanuelle Demoris
• 11
  Exile Shanghai
  Ulrike Ottinger
• 12
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 13
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 14
  Araya
  Margot Benacerraf
• 15
  The Silences of the Palace
  Moufida Tlatli
• 16
  A Simple Life
  Ann Hui
• 17
  In Bloom
  Nana Ekvtimishvili
• 18
  The Brickmakers
  Marta Rodríguez
• 19
  Surname Viet Given Name Nam
  Trinh T. Minh-ha
• 20
  India Song
  Marguerite Duras
• 21
  La ciénaga
  Lucrecia Martel
• 22
  No Mercy No Future
  Helma Sanders-Brahms
• 23
  The Other Side of the Underneath
  Jane Arden
• 24
  Diary for My Children
  Márta Mészáros
• 25
  It's Your Fault
  Anahí Berneri
• 26
  An Unfinished Letter
  Aparna Sen
• 27
  The Traveling Circus
  Việt Linh
• 28
  Oriane
  Fina Torres
• 29
  The Mutants
  Teresa Villaverde
• 30
  The Ascent
  Larisa Shepitko
• 31
  Archipelago
  Joanna Hogg
• 32
  The Visitor
  Lola Randl
• 33
  Jealousy Is My Middle Name
  Park Chan-ok
• 34
  In My Skin
  Marina de Van
• 35
  We Need to Talk About Kevin
  Lynne Ramsay
• 36
  Hour of the Star
  Suzana Amaral
• 37
  Polisse
  Maïwenn
• 38
  The All-Around Reduced Personality
  Helke Sander
• 39
  Places in Cities
  Angela Schanelec
• 40
  An Angel at My Table
  Jane Campion
• 41
  Back to Stay
  Milagros Mumenthaler
• 42
  Mädchen in Uniform
  Leontine Sagan
• 43
  Deliver Us from Evil
  Amy Berg
• 44
  The Fatherless
  Marie Kreutzer
• 45
  The Last Summer of La Boyita
  Julia Solomonoff
• 46
  Vagabond
  Agnès Varda
• 47
  Nana
  Valérie Massadian
• 48
  The Intruder
  Claire Denis
• 49
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 50
  Breaking Horizons
  Pola Schirin Beck
• 51
  Code Blue
  Urszula Antoniak
• 52
  Araf – Somewhere In Between
  Yeşim Ustaoğlu
• 53
  Goodbye First Love
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• 54
  After Winter Comes Spring
  Helke Misselwitz
• 55
  The Stranger in Me
  Emily Atef
• 56
  The Blonds
  Albertina Carri
• 57
  Stroke
  Katarina Peters
• 58
  Lost in Translation
  Sofia Coppola
• 59
  The Days Between
  Maria Speth
• 60
  At Ellen's Age
  Pia Marais
• 61
  A Door To the Sky
  Farida Belyazid
• 62
  Helen
  Sandra Nettelbeck
• 63
  Brownian Movement
  Nanouk Leopold
• 64
  Thursday Till Sunday
  Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
• 65
  House with a Turret
  Eva Neymann
• 66
  Belated
  Barbara Sarasola-Day
• 67
  Book of Days
  Meredith Monk
• 68
  Herencia
  Paula Hernández
• 69
  The Great Sadness of Zohara
  Nina Menkes
• 70
  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  Marion Hänsel
• 71
  Invisible Adversaries
  Valie Export
• 72
  Paraguayan Hammock
  Paz Encina
• 73
  Memories Look at Me
  Fang Song
• 74
  Salma
  Kim Longinotto
• 75
  Blessed Events
  Isabelle Stever
• 76
  The Goddess of 1967
  Clara Law
• 77
  Treeless Mountain
  So Yong Kim
• 78
  Sister
  Ursula Meier
• 79
  A Woman's Revenge
  Rita Azevedo Gomes
• 80
  Wanda
  Barbara Loden
• 81
  Crows
  Dorota Kędzierzawska
• 82
  Beyond Silence
  Caroline Link
• 83
  The Apple
  Samira Makhmalbaf
• 84
  The Loneliest Planet
  Julia Loktev
• 85
  Metal and Melancholy
  Heddy Honigmann
• 86
  The Shine of Day
  Tizza Covi
• 87
  En garde
  Ayse Polat
• 88
  Marianne and Juliane
  Margarethe von Trotta
• 89
  Take My Eyes
  Icíar Bollaín
• 90
  Moon and Cherry
  Yuki Tanada
• 91
  Hotel
  Jessica Hausner
• 92
  Sleeping Beauty
  Julia Leigh
• 93
  Lore
  Cate Shortland
• 94
  The Book of Mary
  Anne-Marie Miéville
• 95
  Corpo celeste
  Alice Rohrwacher
• 96
  Totem
  Jessica Krummacher
• 97
  Tanta agua
  Ana Guevara
• 98
  While We Were Here
  Kat Coiro
• 99
  Maroa
  Solveig Hoogesteijn
• 100
  Habi, the Foreigner
  María Florencia Álvarez