Weekly Update for March 30: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You

Films About Women Opening This Week

Gemini

A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant (Lola Kirke), and her Hollywood starlet boss (Zoë Kravitz). As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman (John Cho), and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity. (Press materials)

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All I Wish — Written and Directed by Susan Walter (Also Available on VOD)

An aspiring fashion designer (Sharon Stone) struggles to find success and love until unexpectedly meeting her match on her birthday. (Press materials)

First Match — Written and Directed by Olivia Newman (Available on Netflix)

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl (Elvire Emanuelle) from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that joining the all-boys’ wrestling team is the only way back to her estranged father. (Press materials)

Finding Your Feet — Co-Written by Meg Leonard (U.S. Release)

On the eve of retirement, a middle class, judgmental snob (Imelda Staunton) discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister, who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate. (Press materials)

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Acrimony

A faithful wife (Taraji P. Henson) tired of standing by her devious husband (Lyriq Bent) is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. (Press materials)

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Films About Women Currently Playing

Tomb Raider — Co-Written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet
Unsane
Beauty and the Dogs — Written and Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
I Kill Giants (Also Available on VOD)
Midnight Sun
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (Documentary) — Directed by Lorna Tucker (UK)
I Got Life! — Co-Written and Directed by Blandine Lenoir (UK)
Madame — Co-Written and Directed by Amanda Sthers (Also Available on VOD)
Elis — Co-Written by Vera Egito
Hichki
Pyewacket (Also Available on VOD)
Mary Magdalene — Written by Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett (UK)
Furlough — Directed by Laurie Collyer (Also Available on VOD)
Allure (Also Available on VOD)
No Light and No Land Anywhere — Written and Directed by Amber Sealey
The Happys
Apocalypsis
A Wrinkle in Time — Directed by Ava DuVernay; Written by Jennifer Lee
Thoroughbreds
Meditation Park — Written and Directed by Mina Shum (Canada) (Also Available on Netflix)
Claire’s Camera
Girls vs Gangsters — Co-Written and Directed by Chun-Chun Wong
Red Sparrow
Oh Lucy! — Written and Directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi
Annihilation
Dark River — Written and Directed by Clio Barnard (UK)
November
The Silent Child (Short) — Written by Rachel Shenton
Heroin(e) (Short Documentary) — Directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Traffic Stop (Short Documentary) — Directed by Kate Davis
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (Short Documentary)
Double Lover
Tehran Taboo
Winchester
A Fantastic Woman
Mary and the Witch’s Flower — Co-Written by Riko Sakaguchi
The Post — Co-Written by Liz Hannah
Vazante — Co-Written and Directed by Daniela Thomas
In the Fade
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
In Between — Written and Directed by Maysaloun Hamoud
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water — Co-Written by Vanessa Taylor
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Documentary) — Written and Directed by Alexandra Dean
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird — Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig
The Florida Project

Films Directed by Women Opening This Week

Outside In — Co-Written and Directed by Lynn Shelton (Available on VOD April 3)

After serving 20 years for the crime of essentially being in the wrong place at the wrong time, 38-year-old Chris (Jay Duplass) is granted early parole thanks largely to the tireless advocacy of Carol (Edie Falco), his former high school teacher. As he struggles with the challenges of navigating the modern world as an ex-con, and with a fraught relationship with his brother Ted (Ben Schwartz), Chris ends up confessing his romantic love for Carol — a love that, given her marital status, Carol cannot reciprocate. Or can she? Carol longs for something her husband no longer provides. Meanwhile, Carol’s daughter Hildy (Kaitlyn Dever) befriends Chris, finding a kindred spirit in this awkward, tormented older guy. (Press materials)

Read Women and Hollywood’s review with Lynn Shelton.

Films Directed by Women Currently Playing

Backyard Wilderness — Co-Directed by Susan Todd; Co-Written by Susan Todd and Wendy MacKeigan
Keep the Change — Written and Directed by Rachel Israel
Our Blood Is Wine (Documentary) — Directed by Emily Railsback
Itzhak (Documentary) — Directed by Alison Chernick
The Party — Written and Directed by Sally Potter
Western — Written and Directed by Valeska Grisebach
Negative Space (Short Animation) — Co-Directed by Ru Kuwahata
Watu Wote: All of Us (Short) — Directed by Katja Benrath; Written by Julia Drache
Edith + Eddie (Short Documentary) — Directed by Laura Checkoway
Forever My Girl — Written and Directed by Bethany Ashton Wolf
Faces Places (Documentary) — Co-Directed by Agnès Varda

Films Written by Women Opening This Week

Fourplay — Co-Written by Emanuela Galliussi

A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, and lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever. (Press materials)

Films Written by Women Currently Playing

Pacific Rim Uprising — Co-Written by Kira Snyder and Emily Carmichael
Ismael’s Ghosts — Co-Written by Léa Mysius and Julie Peyr
A Bag of Marbles — Co-Written by Alexandra Geismar
Love, Simon — Co-Written by Elizabeth Berger
The Leisure Seeker — Co-Written by Francesca Archibugi
The 15:17 to Paris — Written by Dorothy Blyskal
The Insult — Co-Written by Joëlle Touma
The Greatest Showman — Co-Written by Jenny Bicks

TV Premieres This Week

New Wave: Dare to be Different (Documentary) — Directed by Ellen Goldfarb (Premieres March 30 on Showtime)

In August 1982, a small group of radio visionaries at WLIR Long Island knew they couldn’t compete with the mega radio stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the crew at the station, and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio, and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America — including bands like U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, and Blondie. (Press materials)

Read Women and Hollywood’s interview with Ellen Goldfarb.

Sofía Niño de Rivera: Selección Natural (Comedy Special) (Premieres March 30 on Netflix)

Mexico’s Sofía Niño de Rivera brings her dark humor to the stage with jokes about marriage traps, sexually attractive leopards, and funny funerals. (Press materials)

National Treasure: Kiri (Premieres April 4 on Hulu)

This four-part drama is the story of a young black girl in the process of being adopted by a middle class white family. Kiri (Felicia Mukasa) goes missing on an unsupervised visit to her birth family, arranged by her social worker, Miriam (Sarah Lancashire). We follow Miriam, as the fingers of suspicion and blame point at her and her judgement is questioned; Kiri’s birth family, as they find both their past failings and their present dysfunctional relationships put under the microscope; and Kiri’s adoptive family — particularly Alice (Lia Williams), Kiri’s fiercely articulate white foster mother, as they are thrust into the national limelight. All of them are asking the same two questions: what happened to Kiri, and who is to blame? (Press materials)

VOD/DVD Releasing This Week

A Suitable Girl (Documentary) — Directed by Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra (VOD, Available Now)
Dare to Be Wild — Written and Directed by Vivienne De Courcy (Netflix, April 1)
Swim Team (Documentary) — Directed by Lara Stolman (Netflix, April 1)
Basmati Blues (DVD, April 3)
Half Magic — Written and Directed by Heather Graham (DVD, April 3)
Insidious: The Last Key (VOD/DVD, April 3)
Jane (DVD, April 3)
Permanent — Written and Directed by Colette Burson (DVD, April 3)
Thelma (DVD, April 3)

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