I Am Wanda

Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda

A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film.

Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress

An intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Bibi Andersson.

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like Alice Guy-Blaché, she was prolific, and worked in all kinds of formats, including commercials and animated interludes for fiction features. More than Guy-Blaché, though, she was an inventor of forms and techniques whose genius was admired by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. It says a lot about film history that Reiniger remains still a specialists’ darling…

Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner

By the time director Katja Raganelli arrived in California to make a film about Dorothy Arzner in 1980, Arzner had passed away in a car accident. Nonetheless, Raganelli visited Arzner’s desert home and retraced the pioneering filmmaker’s career in this documentary, using Arzner’s trove of photographs, as well as interviews with her leading lady Esther Ralston, to create this nuanced portrait of a woman who bucked every norm and defied societal expectation.

Alice Guy-Blaché

A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.

Joan Micklin Silver: Encounters with the New York Director

This 1983 German documentary by Katja Raganelli features director Joan Micklin Silver; her husband, Ray Silver; and a handful of key collaborators discussing her film work, from her debut feature HESTER STREET through her romantic comedy HEAD OVER HEELS.

Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen

Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies

Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig

Documentary about French film actress and director Delphine Seyrig featuring an interview filmed in 1977.

Márta Mészáros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker

Documentary about film director Marta Meszaros featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative collaborators