Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts (2020)

(0) based on 0 votes
Janina Ramirez presents a set of short films by talented, emerging artists who use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective. A Flourishing Crown; Afro Hair Rituals; Being Better; Born to Flex; Justin, What Have You Done to Us?; Searching for Cowardice; Vlogger; Where Are You From?; Femme Fatale
Directors
Release Date
Mar 05, 2020
Runtime
00h 59m
Available in streaming on

Janina Ramirez presents a set of short films by talented, emerging artists who use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective. A Flourishing Crown; Afro Hair Rituals; Being Better; Born to Flex; Justin, What Have You Done to Us?; Searching for Cowardice; Vlogger; Where Are You From?; Femme Fatale

Movies like Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts

The Long Run

When two oddball strangers leave their lives behind to chase their Hollywood dreams, they discover that what they lack in talent, they make up for with determination and a shared delusion, leading to an unexpected friendship that will make them question the realities of chasing a dream.
Search similar movies
10.0
The+Long+Run
The Long Run

2025

Search similar movies
Wüm

It follows Bennett, a nonbinary new parent, who arrives late to their postpartum "Mamas Group" at a place called "Wüm" with 3-month-old daughter, Edie.
Search similar movies
4.5
W%C3%BCm
The Call

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Call
The Silence

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.
Search similar movies
7.0
The+Silence
The Silence

2016

Search similar movies
Everything in the End

Stranded in a small village during Earth's final days, a man seeks solace in the brief human connections he encounters.
Search similar movies
5.7
Everything+in+the+End
Everything in the End

2021

Search similar movies
Women in Film: BBC Introducing Arts

Cultural historian Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing and exciting short films by emerging women directors and artists. Each film gives a female perspective on modern-day topics from body image and new love to grief and belonging. Expect honest and refreshing storytelling that will make you laugh, make you cry and make you think. In a Room Full of Sisters; Blood Stains; Bridging the Gap; Cake; Ding-Ding, Next; Fruity; In Perpetuum; Owulide; White Dwarf; Cosmic Domestic; The Dead Are Jewels to Me; The Presence of Absence
Search similar movies
Women+in+Film%3A+BBC+Introducing+Arts
Women in Film: BBC Introducing Arts

2021

Search similar movies
Sorry, We're Dead

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.
Search similar movies
Sorry%2C+We%27re+Dead
Sorry, We're Dead

2024

Search similar movies
Female Filmmakers Too: BBC Introducing Arts

Cultural historian Janina Ramirez presents a collection of intriguing and exciting short films by emerging female directors and artists. Each film gives a female perspective on modern-day topics from friendship and identity to freedom and belonging. Silent Pride; 0.5%; After the Break; Black. British. Muslim. Other.; Exhale; Hung Out to Dry; I Asked for Wonder; Midday; Sapphire of the Valley; The Skin I Move In; We know a better word than happy; Being Black in Northern Ireland
Search similar movies
Female+Filmmakers+Too%3A+BBC+Introducing+Arts
Female Filmmakers Too: BBC Introducing Arts

2022

Search similar movies
That Which Once Was

In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver who helps him confront his past.
Search similar movies
That+Which+Once+Was
That Which Once Was

2011

Search similar movies
Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Adrenaline

For more than 40 years Kathryn Bigelow has been making films that explore male violence. With movies like Blue Steel, Point Break, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar winning American filmmaker has impressed with hard-hitting moviemaking that holds a mirror up to contemporary America and the world.
Search similar movies
5.0
Kathryn+Bigelow%3A+Hollywood+Adrenaline
Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Adrenaline

2023

Search similar movies
Refuge(e)

Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threats to their lives in their home countries and presented themselves at the US border asking for political asylum, only to be incarcerated in a for-profit prison for months on end without having committed any crime. Thousands more like them can't tell their stories.
Search similar movies
Refuge%28e%29
The Little Death

Found beaten and heartsick outside of a Virginian motel, Kurt, 19, is taken in by a colorful group of sex workers and becomes captivated by a young prostitute named Rose.
Search similar movies
The+Little+Death
The Little Death

2023

Search similar movies
Brise glace (Broken Waters)

Ottawa, 1983. When an ambitious anti-pharma psychiatrist sets out to cure a serial baby-snatching patient, her unconventional methods and unexpected pregnancy combine to unravel every part of her life.
Search similar movies
Brise+glace+%28Broken+Waters%29
Brise glace (Broken Waters)

2023

Search similar movies
Casualties of Cool: Live at the Union Chapel

Casualties of Cool is a duo consisting of Devin Townsend and Ché Aimee. This is an intimate session recorded on Thursday, September 04, 2014 at the Union Chapel in London.
Search similar movies
Casualties+of+Cool%3A+Live+at+the+Union+Chapel
Casualties of Cool: Live at the Union Chapel

2014

Search similar movies
Agreste

In the heart of the Brazilian backlands, Agreste tells the story of Etevaldo, a nomadic and reserved rural worker who carries a dark secret. When he meets Maria, a free-spirited young woman promised in marriage to an influential man from the neighborhood, the two fall deeply in love. Forced to flee due to the imminent wedding and the threats they face, they are taken in by Valda, a religious woman who sees Maria as her own daughter. While they try to find refuge, the arrival of Ribamar, the local sheriff's nephew, intensifies the tension. He is investigating an alleged theft, and his investigations begin to reveal Etevaldo's past, which fuels the hatred of the local community. Amid chaos, love and the struggle for survival challenge Etevaldo and Maria, testing secrets, betrayals, and a growing pressure from a society that does not accept their union.
Search similar movies
5.5
Agreste
Marla and The Most Insufferable Girl Ever

While doing a biology paper, the dedicated Marla has to work with The Most Insufferable Girl Ever. The results are catastrophic for her heart and grades.
Search similar movies
10.0
Marla+and+The+Most+Insufferable+Girl+Ever
Marla and The Most Insufferable Girl Ever

2023

Search similar movies
Rodrigo Sant'anna: I'm Here, I'm Queer!

Whether he's making a grand entrance, sharing personal stories or bringing a host of quirky characters to life, Rodrigo Sant'Anna lights up the stage.
Search similar movies
4.0
Rodrigo+Sant%27anna%3A+I%27m+Here%2C+I%27m+Queer%21
Rodrigo Sant'anna: I'm Here, I'm Queer!

2022

Search similar movies
Big Girls Don't Cry

Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what appears to be a harmonious and liberal family. But the girls discover how quickly their attractive world can fall apart when, at a hip nightclub, they happen to see Steffi's father in the arms of another woman. Steffi is shocked, her trust in her small perfect world shaken to the core. She can only think of one thing: revenge.
Search similar movies
6.0
Big+Girls+Don%27t+Cry
Big Girls Don't Cry

2002

Search similar movies
Remember the Titans

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Search similar movies
7.6
Remember+the+Titans
Remember the Titans

2000

Search similar movies
LiebesLuder

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
4.7
LiebesLuder
LiebesLuder

2000

Search similar movies
Autumn in New York

Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Search similar movies
6.1
Autumn+in+New+York
Autumn in New York

2000

Search similar movies
Loser

On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
Search similar movies
5.4
Loser
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Search similar movies
6.9
The+Unbearable+Lightness+of+Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1988

Search similar movies
The Slurb

One Saturday, the Slurb, a strange little creature with a proboscis nose, enters Mr. Taschenbier's life. Slurb, who immediately adopts the shy Mr. Taschenbier as his "daddy," is, however, his sheer opposite: he is cheeky and chaotic and throws his well-ordered life into sheer chaos. But when Taschenbier discovers that he can fulfill all his wishes with the help of Slurb's blue freckles, his life suddenly changes. He appeases his bad-tempered landlady, Mrs. Rotkohl, and he can finally get one over on his nasty neighbor, Mr. Lürcher. Everything could be so nice if Mr. Taschenbier didn't fall in love with his pretty colleague Mrs. März and if the Slurb didn't almost burst with jealousy...
Search similar movies
5.9
The+Slurb
Tomcats

College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- money Michael needs to pay a gambling debt. Problem is, the only other single guy is a hopeless womanizer!
Search similar movies
5.1
Tomcats
Pay It Forward

Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Search similar movies
7.3
Pay+It+Forward
Pay It Forward

2000

Search similar movies
Magnum Force

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
Search similar movies
7.1
Magnum+Force
Magnum Force

1973

Search similar movies
Hamburger Hill

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.
Search similar movies
6.6
Hamburger+Hill
Hamburger Hill

1987

Search similar movies
The Seven Year Itch

With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
Search similar movies
7.1
The+Seven+Year+Itch
The Seven Year Itch

1955

Search similar movies
Hair

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Search similar movies
7.3
Hair
Gettysburg

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
Search similar movies
6.9
Gettysburg
Gettysburg

1993

Search similar movies
Needful Things

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
Search similar movies
6.2
Needful+Things
Needful Things

1993

Search similar movies
Howard the Duck

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Search similar movies
5.4
Howard+the+Duck
Howard the Duck

1986

Search similar movies
By the River Nowhere

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
7.0
By+the+River+Nowhere
By the River Nowhere

1991

Search similar movies
When You Do Pop

Alicia and Ruth finally leave Madrid to play with their band at a music fest. The problem is they are stuck in the middle of nowhere. The only way to arrive is to get in Javi's van, a young hunter who gives them a bad feeling.
Search similar movies
10.0
When+You+Do++Pop
When You Do Pop

2021

Search similar movies
Gatta Kusthi

Veera, a misguided man who wants a timid, not-so-learned and subservient wife with long hair, unknowingly ends up getting married to Keerthi, an intrepid wrestler who is also more educated than him and has cropped hair. For how long can Keerthi maintain the charade and what happens when Veera comes to know the truth?
Search similar movies
5.8
Gatta+Kusthi
Gatta Kusthi

2022

Search similar movies
Kery James : Le poète noir et ses invités

Plot unavailable
Search similar movies
Kery+James+%3A+Le+po%C3%A8te+noir+et+ses+invit%C3%A9s
Kery James : Le poète noir et ses invités

2022

Search similar movies
Death Becomes Me

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Search similar movies
Death+Becomes+Me
Death Becomes Me

1979

Search similar movies
The Masqueraders

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Search similar movies
The+Masqueraders
The Masqueraders

1980

Search similar movies
Piggy Back

The captain of the Piggy Back Ferry deals with endless family shenanigans, while struggling to keep the boat that means the world to him and his son.
Search similar movies
4.0
Piggy+Back
Piggy Back

2022

Search similar movies
Quando Eu Me Encontrar

Dayane suddenly leaves. Her mother Marluce, her sister Mariana and her fiancé Antônio stay. Between the incessant search, silent resignation and silent denial, this touching family drama from Ceará is located.
Search similar movies
6.5
Quando+Eu+Me+Encontrar
Quando Eu Me Encontrar

2024

Search similar movies
Ramal

"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are having fun on their motorcycles on a dead-end viaduct known by the residents of the region as ramal ferroviário".
Search similar movies
Ramal
Eternal Visionary

In 1934, as playwright Luigi Pirandello travels to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, he begins reliving the drama and magic of the loved ones who have populated his life and inspired his art. Pirandello reminisces about the madness of his wife, his stormy relationship with his children, his controversial stance towards fascism, and his love for Marta Abba, the young actress who became his muse.
Search similar movies
7.2
Eternal+Visionary
Eternal Visionary

2024

Search similar movies