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  • ‘At Night’ Review: A Feminist Feature Debut Refutes the Idea of Monolithic Womanhood
  • Feministisch Deens oorlogsdrama ‘Woman Unknown’ grote winnaar op filmfestival Venetië
  • DPP screens film honoring feminist Peng Wan-ru

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indiewire.com /1 month ago

‘At Night’ Review: A Feminist Feature Debut Refutes the Idea of Monolithic Womanhood

TIFF: First-time feature filmmaker Beatrice Gibson adapts the poetry of Alice Notley into a spellbinding work of autofiction.

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volkskrant.nl /1 month ago

Feministisch Deens oorlogsdrama ‘Woman Unknown’ grote winnaar op filmfestival Venetië

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taipeitimes.com /3 weeks ago

DPP screens film honoring feminist Peng Wan-ru

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egyptianstreets.com /1 month ago

The Horror of Being a Woman Expressed in Egyptian Art

  Is the devil a woman? This was a question that often seemed to permeate some of the earliest Western and Egyptian films, reflecting the misogynistic anxieties surrounding a woman...

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africanews.com /1 month ago

May el-Toukhy's ‘Woman Unknown’ premieres in Venice

The period film is the sole female-directed entry in this year’s Venice competition, down from six of 21 films last year. Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera called the figure...

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observer.com /1 month ago

Screening at Venice: May el-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown’

The only film by a solo woman director in this year's Venice competition, it shoulders the burden of representing a feminine point of view, whether it wants to or not.

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

Female film-makers still being squeezed out of industry, London film festival director says

Over 40% of films in LFF programme are female-made, but only two of 21 gala films are directed by womenFemale film-makers are still being squeezed out of the industry as they progr...

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theguardian.com /1 month ago

Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for womenThe enduring cult of male genius is keeping down female film-makers, one of th...

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indiewire.com /1 month ago

‘The Difficult Bride’ Turns South Asia’s Beloved Wedding Tropes Into Feminist Folk Horror at Venice

Venice: One of the few female filmmakers to break out of Bangladesh, Rubaiyat Hossain’s fourth feature resists genre categorizations. But it makes a meal of a creepy urban myth the...

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observer.com /1 month ago

Screening at Venice: Nicolas Pariser’s ‘One Minute to Midnight’

Its self-reflexivity reveals a riveting feminist tome about the winds of cultural change and the difficulty of de-centering yourself from your own story.

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scmp.com /1 month ago

‘Woman Unknown’ wins Gold Lion at Venice Film Festival

Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy’s post-war drama Woman Unknown ⁠won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with its star Mathilde Arcel also taking best actress ho...

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washingtonmonthly.com /1 month ago

A Feminist Humanist’s Last Word

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screendaily.com /1 month ago

May el-Toukhy says #MeToo advances have rolled back amid Venice gender imbalance

“I’ve never read an article where a female director is promoted as a genius,” said el-Toukhy.

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rogerebert.com /2 weeks ago

Female Filmmakers in Focus: Paloma Schneideman on “Big Girls Don’t Cry”

The voice behind the New Zealand-set queer coming of age drama talks about rural queerness and the nostalgic joys of Limewire.

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deadline.com /1 month ago

Venice Competition Filmmaker May El-Toukhy On Gender Imbalance: “I’ve Been The Only Woman In Many, Many Settings”

May el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for the...

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msmagazine.com /1 month ago

Was Mary Oliver a Feminist? 

From Pinterest boards to classroom walls, Mary Oliver’s words have become popular in a way that most poets could only dream. People have even gone as far as to call her “Saint Mary...

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screendaily.com /1 month ago

Maggie Gyllenhaal questions male-dominated Venice Competition lineup

Gyllenhaal also says “honest” films are “fundamentally, unavoidably political, as well as a lot of other things.”

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msmagazine.com /1 month ago

‘Furious’ Is a Cathartic Feminist Fable After Years of Epstein Stonewalling

Congress passed the Epstein Transparency Act in November 2025, yet the Department of Justice is refusing to release all the Epstein files. For those they have released, the DOJ red...

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blog.apaonline.org /2 days ago

Town Bloody Hall

Town Bloody Hall (1979) documents a singular historical moment, a “dialogue on women’s liberation” that took place on April 30, 1971, in New York’s Town Hall. The event was staged...

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variety.com /1 month ago

Film Industry Leaders Demand Structural Fix for Gender Gap at Lumiere Summit

Women held 17% of key behind-camera roles when the Celluloid Ceiling study began tracking the figure in 1998. Last year, that number stood at 23%. Six points in 27 years. That stat...

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hollywoodreporter.com /1 month ago

Venice’s Lone Female Competition Director May el-Toukhy on Gender Gap: “I’ve Never Heard a Female Director Being Called...

The Danish filmmaker, whose post-WWII thriller 'Woman Unknown' premieres in competition Sunday, calls the shortage of women vying for the Golden Lion "a structural problem" that is...

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variety.com /1 month ago

‘Woman Unknown’ Director May el-Toukhy Talks the Torment of World War II ‘Horizontal Collaborators’ and Venice’s Female...

In “Woman Unknown,” May el-Toukhy takes a closer look at women accused of having relationships with German soldiers during World War II. “When we started to build a story about a ‘...

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fawcettsociety.org.uk /2 weeks ago

Recent Events

Events in 2026 June Misogyny Matters: Fawcett Conference 2026 Our flagship conference addressed the rise of misogyny and the structural inequalities effecting women across Wor...

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hotnews.ro /1 month ago

Mesajul singurei femei regizor care concurează pentru premiul cel mare la Festivalul de la Veneția, cu un film „desp...

NumДѓrul redus al femeilor care concureazДѓ pentru marele premiu al Festivalul de Film de la VeneИ›ia reflectДѓ o problemДѓ structuralДѓ a industriei cinematografice, a declarat du...

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