Invisible Women

A programme of coming of age films inspired by Bradford's diasporic past.

Auteur, artist, heroine, queen... Where do we start with Chantal Akerman?

Anita Loos was a legendary screenwriter and author whose brilliant lines found their way into the mouths of the era’s biggest stars.

Video artist & documaker Eunice Gutman has dedicated her career to shedding light on the roles of women in Brazilian society.

With 'Focus on María Luisa Bemberg' we aim to look back at her extraordinary career and indelible contribution to feminist filmmaking.

Dorothy Arzner was one of very few women to find credited work as a director within the early Hollywood studio system.

In this spotlight we delve deeper into the life and legacy of one of cinema's most mesmerising stars: Dolores del Río

Extended intro to Amor, mujeres y flores, screening as part of 'Cursed Flowers and sacred leaves: The militant cinema of Marta Rodriguez'

‘ Perhaps she will be one of the great ones… ’ An art dealer has travelled a great distance to track down a painter who he believes could be the next Cezanne. Upon his arrival, he’s informed by her widowed husband that the painter in question has recently died in childbirth. Already a mother to three young children, she had continued to paint in their crowded family home but the canvasses that remain carry the traces of perpetual domestic interruptions, unfinished and annotat

Costume designers don’t often become household names, but if anyone deserves to be more widely known outside the industry, it’s Sandy Powell

Female emigrees played an important role in shaping Hollywood’s Golden Age – both behind the scenes and in front of the camera.

Our guest writer Hipatia Argüero makes the case for the film editor as auteur celebrating Gloria Schoemann, Queen of the Mexican Golden Age.

Marion Grierson is much more than a footnote in the story of the Grierson filmmaking dynasty.

This February we champion Zeinabu irene Davis, an underappreciated heroine of US indie filmmaking who might finally be finding her moment.

Dika Ofoma introduces us to '90s Nollywood rebel Amaka Igwe, whose work lay the foundations for a new generation of Nigerian filmmakers.

This is the first instalment of a two-parter centred on Scottish filmmaking sisters Ruby and Marion Grierson.

This month we deep dive into the fascinating story of inimitable Polly Platt and her extraordinary contemporaries.

This pride month we’re basking in the glorious queer gaze of Sandra Lahire. A central figure in the feminist workshop movement of the 1980s.

This month we celebrate brilliant Anglo-Indian filmmaker Sarah Erulkar, who broke her way into the white male-dominated 1950s film industry.

This months Spotlight focuses Mary Blair, the wildly creative and impossibly chic Art Director who shaped the Disney studio’s iconic imagery