Festival Interviews with Women Directors – TIFF
2022
- Chandler Levack – “I Like Movies”
- Rima Das – “Tora’s Husband”
- Luis De Filippis – “Something You Said Last Night”
- Gabriela Cowperthwaite – “The Grab”
- Lindsay MacKay – “The Swearing Jar”
- Joseph Amenta – “Soft”
- Angela Wanjiku Wamai – “Shimoni” (“The Pit”)
- Carmen Jaquier – “Thunder”
- Marie Kreutzer – “Corsage”
- Jub Clerc – “Sweet As”
- Lila Neugebauer – “Causeway”
- Frances O’Connor – “Emily”
- Liliane Mutti – “Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova”
- Sophie Kargman – “Susie Searches”
- Tamana Ayazi – “In Her Hands”
- Amy Redford – “Roost”
- Bess Wohl – “Baby Ruby”
- Aitch Alberto – “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”
- Stephanie Johnes – “Maya and the Wave”
- Maggie Levin and Vanessa Winter – “V/H/S/99”
- Mary Nighy – “Alice, Darling”
- Lauren DeFilippo – “Free Money”
- Vera Drew – “The People’s Joker”
- Selcen Ergun – “Snow and the Bear” (“Kar ve Ayı”)
- Malou Reymann – “Unruly”
- V.T. Nayani – “This Place”
- Sinéad O’Shea – “Pray for Our Sinners”
- Laura Baumeister – “Daughter of Rage”
- Alice Winocour – “Paris Memories”
- Nisha Pahuja – “To Kill a Tiger”
- Carolina Markowicz – “Charcoal”
- Gail Maurice – “Rosie”
- Sophie Jarvis – “Until Branches Bend”
2021
- Nathalie Biancheri – “Wolf”
- Camille Griffin – “Silent Night”
- Laura Santullo – “The Other Tom”
- Agustina San Martín – “To Kill The Beast”
- Darin J. Sallam – “Farha”
- Laura Samani – “Piccolo Corpo” (“Small Body”)
- Kamila Andini – “Yuni”
- Haya Waseem – “Quickening”
- Kate Dolan – “You Are Not My Mother”
- Mounia Akl – “Costa Brava, Lebanon”
- Shasha Nakhai – “Scarborough”
- Ruth Paxton – “A Banquet”
- Ana Lazarevic – “The Game”
- Aga Woszczyńska – “Silent Land”
- Neus Ballús – “The Odd-Job Men”
- Tea Lindeburg – “As in Heaven”
- Jenna Cato Bass – “Mlungu Wam” (“Good Madam”)
2020
- Aisling Chin-Yee – “No Ordinary Man”
- Roseanne Liang – “Shadow in the Cloud”
- Farnoosh Samadi – “180° Rule”
- Mayye Zayed – “Lift Like a Girl”
- Suzanne Lindon – “Spring Blossom”
- Sonia Kennebeck – “Enemies of the State”
- Stacey Lee – “Underplayed”
- Tracey Deer – “Beans”
- Jennifer Abbott – “The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel”
- Emma Seligman – “Shiva Baby”
- Madeleine Sims-Fewer – “Violation”
- Cathy Brady – “Wildfire”
2019
- Sarah Gavron – “Rocks”
- María Paz González – “Lina from Lima”
- Neasa Hardiman – “Sea Fever”
- Unjoo Moon – “I Am Woman”
- Chiara Malta – “Simple Women”
- Alla Kovgan – “Cunningham”
- Aisling Chin-Yee – “The Rest of Us”
- Rojda Sekersöz – “My Life as a Comedian”
- Shelly Love – “A Bump Along the Way”
- Heather Young – “Murmur”
- Paula Hernández – “The Sleepwalkers”
- Gabriela Cowperthwaite – “The Friend”
- Antoneta Kastrati – “Zana”
- Tamar Shavgulidze – “Comets”
- Julie Delpy – “My Zoe”
- Sanja Živković – “Easy Land”
- Coky Giedroyc – “How to Build a Girl”
- Maria Sødahl – “Hope”
- Marielle Heller – “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
- Eva Mulvad – “Love Child”
- Barbara Kopple – “Desert One”
- Myriam Verrault – “Kuessipan”
- Lauren Greenfield – “The Kingmaker”
- Lisa Barros D’Sa – “Ordinary Love”
- Eva Orner – “Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator”
- Kasi Lemmons – “Harriet”
- Hind Meddeb – “Paris Stalingrad”
- Lina Alabed – “Ibrahim: A Fate to Define”
- Klaudia Reynicke – “Love Me Tender”
- Jorunn Myklebust Syversen – “Disco”
- Alma Har’el – “Honey Boy”
- Shonali Bose – “The Sky Is Pink”
2018
- Paprika Steen – “That Time of Year”
- Pella Kågerman – “Aniara”
- Eva Husson – “Girls of the Sun”
- Maryam Keshavarz – “Viper Club”
- Caroline Poggi – “Jessica Forever”
- Veena Sud – “The Lie”
- Dominga Sotomayor – “Too Late to Die Young”
- Nicole Holofcener – “The Land of Steady Habits”
- Chanya Button – “Vita & Virginia”
- Amma Asante – “Where Hands Touch”
- Michal Aviad – “Working Woman”
- Astra Taylor – “What Is Democracy?”
- Soudade Kaadan – “The Day I Lost My Shadow”
- Tuva Novotny – “Blind Spot”
- Karyn Kusama – “Destroyer”
- Nino Zhvania – “Parade”
- Ritu Sarin – “The Sweet Requiem”
- Darlene Naponse – “Falls Around Her”
- Lila Avilés – “The Chambermaid”
- Rosanne Pel – “Light as Feathers”
- Bai Xue – “The Crossing”
- Alejandra Márquez Abella – “The Good Girls”
- Annabel Jankel – “Tell It to the Bees”
- Laura Luchetti – “Twin Flower”
- Genevieve Nnaji – “Lionheart”
- Shannon Service – “Ghost Fleet”
- Naziha Arebi – “Freedom Fields”
- Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian – “Fig Tree”
- Victoria Stone – “The Elephant Queen”
- Sine Plambech – “Heartbound”
- Selma Vilhunen – “Stupid Young Heart”
- Ash Mayfair – “The Third Wife”
- Nandita Das – “Manto”
- Carmel Winters – “Float Like a Butterfly”
- Marielle Heller – “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
- Jasmin Mozaffari – “Firecrackers”
- Carolina Hellsgård – “Ever After”
- Marija Kavtaradzė – “Summer Survivors”
- Natalia Meschaninova – “Core of the World”
- Carol Morley – “Out of Blue”
- Camilla Strøm Henriksen – “Phoenix”
- Imogen Thomas – “Emu Runner”
- Renée Beaulieu – “The Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin”
- Patricia Rozema – “Mouthpiece”
- Wanuri Kahiu – “Rafiki”
2017
- Bornila Chatterjee – “The Hungry”
- Tali Shalom-Ezer – “My Days of Mercy”
- Kamila Andini – “The Seen and Unseen”
- Mila Turajlic – “The Other Side of Everything”
- Joan Chemla – “If You Saw His Heart”
- Mouly Surya – “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts”
- Ainsley Gardiner – “Waru”
- Lisa Langseth – “Euphoria”
- Erika Cohn – “The Judge”
- Brie Larson – “Unicorn Store”
- Elizaveta Stishova – “Suleiman Mountain”
- Rachel Grady – “One of Us”
- Anahí Berneri – “Alanis”
- Violeta Ayala – “Cocaine Prison”
- Ingrid Veninger – “Porcupine Lake”
- Limor Shmila – “Montana”
- Zaida Bergroth – “Miami”
- Clio Barnard – “Dark River”
- Nora Twomey – “The Breadwinner”
- Susanna White – “Woman Walks Ahead”
- Valerie Faris – “Battle of the Sexes”
- Sadaf Foroughi – “AVA”
- Priscilla Cameron – “The Butterfly Tree”
- Kathleen Hepburn – “Never Steady, Never Still”
- Iram Haq – “What Will People Say”
- Tracy Heather Strain – “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart”
- Molly McGlynn – “Mary Goes Round”
- Haifaa Al-Mansour – “Mary Shelley”
- Kate Novack – “The Gospel According to André”
- Greta Gerwig – “Lady Bird”
- Barbara Albert – “Mademoiselle Paradis”
- Sophie Fiennes – “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami”
- Aoife McArdle – “Kissing Candice”
- Jenna Bass – “High Fantasy”
2016
- Kristina Kumrić – “Half A Man”
- Miwa Nishikawa – “The Long Excuse”
- Alanis Obomsawin – “We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice”
- Kelly Fremon Craig – “The Edge of Seventeen”
- Maya Zinshtein – “Forever Pure”
- Katherine Dieckmann – “Strange Weather”
- Katell Quillévéré – “Heal the Living”
- Raja Amari – “Foreign Body”
- Bronwen Hughes – “The Journey is the Destination”
- Erin Heidenreich – “Girl Unbound”
- Elite Zexer – “Sand Storm”
- Robin Swicord — “Wakefield”
- Emmanuelle Bercot – “150 Milligrams”
- Sofia Exarchou – “Park”
- María José Cuevas – “Beauties of the Night”
- Sarah Adina Smith – “Buster’s Mal Heart”
- April Mullen – “Below Her Mouth”
- Chloé Robichaud – “Boundaries”
- Rachel Lambert – “In the Radiant City”
- Selma Vilhunen – “Little Wing”
- Amma Asante – “A United Kingdom”
- Alison Maclean – “The Rehearsal”
- Ann Marie Fleming – “Window Horses”
- Anne Émond – “Nelly”
- Petra Epperlein – “Karl Marx City”
- Ralitza Petrova – “Godless”
- Susan Johnson – “Carrie Pilby”
- Hope Dickson Leach – “The Levelling”
- Maren Ade – “Toni Erdmann”
2015
- Elaine Constantine – “Northern Soul”
- Julie Delpy – “Lolo”
- Anne Èmond – “Our Loved Ones”
- Fabienne Berthaud – “Sky”
- Anna Boden – “Mississippi Grind”
- Elisabeth Scharang – “Jack”
- Anne Sewitsky – “Homesick”
- Katherine Monk – “Rock the Box”
- Lucile Hadžihalilovic – “Evolution”
- Jocelyn Moorhouse – “The Dressmaker”
- Danae Elon – “P.S. Jerusalem”
- Meghna Gulzar – “Guilty”
- Lorene Scafaria – “The Meddler”
- Catherine Corsini – “Summertime”
- Maris Curran – “Five Nights in Maine”
- Alexandra-Therese Keining – “Girls Lost”
- Mai Masri – “3000 Nights”
- Catherine Hardwicke – “Miss You Already”
- Leena Yadav – “Parched”
- Sanna Lenken – “My Skinny Sister”
- Patricia Rozema – “Into the Forest”
- Geeta Gandbhir and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy – “A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers”
- Eva Husson – “Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)”
- Caroline Monnet – “Mobilize”
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven – “Mustang”
2014
- Mami Sunada – “The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness”
- Boo Ji-Young – “Cart”
- Megha Ramaswamy – “Newborns”
- Shahad Ameen – “Eye & Mermaid”
- Carolina Markowicz and Fernanda Salloum – “Tatuapé Mahal Tower”
- Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir – “Playing with Balls”
- Sarah Galea-Davis – “An Apartment”
- Torill Kove – “Me and My Moulton”
- Caroline Mailloux – “The Barnhouse”
- Amanda Strong – “Indigo”
- Johanne Ste-Marie – “Migration”
- Michelle Latimer – “The Underground”
- Ruba Nadda – “October Gale”
- Atsuko Hirayanagi – “Oh Lucy!”
- Kasia Nalewajka – “Pineapple Calamari”
- Isabel Coixet – “Learning to Drive”
- Sophie Barthes – “Madame Bovary”
- Yassmina Karajah – “Light”
- Marie-Ève Juste – “The Sands”
- Elizabeth Lazebnik – “Liompa”
- Grazia Tricarico – “Persefone”
- Shonali Bose – “Margarita, With a Straw”
- Tamara Erde – “This is My Land”
- Lindsay MacKay – “Wet Bum”
- Linnea Saasen – “Meet Me in Montenegro”
- Suha Arraf – “Villa Touma”
- Marte Vold – “Out of Nature”
- Lone Scherfig – “The Riot Club”
- Isidora Marras – “I Am Not Lorena”
- Laura Nix – “The Yes Men Are Revolting”
- Tala Hadid – “The Narrow Frame of Midnight”
- Martine Époque – “Coda: The Finale for The Rite of Spring”
- Afia Nathaniel – “Dukhtar”
- Kristina Grozeva – “The Lesson”
2013
- Jasmila Zbanic (Director/Co-Writer) and Kym Vercoe (Co-Writer) – “For Those Who Can Tell No Tales”
- Megan Griffiths (Director) and Emily Wachtel (Writer/Producer) – “Lucky Them”
2012
- Cate Shortland – “Lore”
- Shola Lynch – “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners”
- Susanne Bier – “Love Is All You Need”
- Deepa Mehta – “Midnight’s Children”
- Sally Potter – “Ginger and Rosa”
- Judi Levine (Producer) – “The Sessions”
- Ruba Nadda – “Inescapable”
- Margarethe von Trotta (Director) and Barbara Sukowa (Star) – “Hannah Arendt”