CURATORS’ PICKS
Re‑evaluating Women’s Contributions to Cinema
When we discuss women directors’ contributions in film history, we often focus on “first times” – the first female director making a documentary, the first woman to head a studio, the first woman participating in a movement and so on.
Women’s Non-Fiction Practices in Communist Poland
The Polish programme presents a selection of short films from the 1960s to the 1980s. In post-war Poland, the short format dominated film production, largely shaped by the state-run system that defined the conditions and aesthetics of documentary filmmaking until 1989.
Cinema of Feminist Resistance
Our research into documentary cinema created by women in Italy has led us to (re)discover a body of filmmaking—particularly from the 1960s and 1970s
Another Way of Seeing
When we ask why women's contributions to documentary cinema remain underseen, the answer is rarely a lack of films. The films exist. The ways of seeing exist. What has been missing is the looking.
An Unexpected Dimension
We joined the "Another Story" project because, despite Balkan Documentary Center's more than 15 years of work to advance the visibility of documentary cinema, we found that films by women in the non-fiction form remain largely unknown, and even more so from the Balkan region.
