The creation of female films around the world is still booming, with new and excellent works constantly emerging in terms of story, performance, genre and style.

Now in the fourth year of the Women's Voice section since it was set in Beijing Film Panorama, it introduces eight amazing films that represent the limitless potential of women's stories and are nothing short of groundbreaking.

　　Bachmann & Frisch 4K

　　

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The film is the 80-year-old German director Margarethe von Trotta's latest film, which debuted in the Competition section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, has been a hit. 

Von Trotta, who won the Golden Lion for The German Sisters at the Venice International Film Festival and shocked moviegoers around the world with Hannah Arendt, has always been using the camera to tell stories about intellectual women's critical lives. The film tells the story of the life of the Austrian poetess Ingeborg Bachmann with the structure of time and space, strong characterization and drama strength.

Vicky Krieps, best known to fans for her roles in films such as Phantom Thread, Bergman Island and Corsage, is one of the most prolific European actresses in recent years. She has worked with several female directors to deliver one memorable female image after another. What answer would Ingeborg Bachmann give to questions of life such as love, creation and selfhood?

　　Knowing the Score

　　

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This film is a documentary about the internationally renowned Australian female conductor Simone Young. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of Young's pursuit of her musical dream and growth into a world-class conductor.。

Cate Blanchett, who plays the conductor in Tar, is one of the film's producers; And Simone Young is even more appreciative of Blanchett's role as a conductor. These two female artists from Australia are sympathetic to each other, and together they create the wonderful films Tar and Knowing the Score.

 

　　Woman on the Roof 

　　

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It is the latest film by Polish female director Anna Jadowska and is based on real events. The story follows Mira, a 60-year-old midwife who has lived a life of routine, but suddenly and unexpectedly carried out a robbery on an ordinary morning.。

While Woman on the Roof can be seen as a mirror image of Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman's "Housewife's Journal" ends abruptly after a crime, whereas Woman on the Roof  begins with a crime that shatters the peace of everyday life, peeling a woman's seemingly placid life away into the depths of her heart.

"Zero-degree show" of starring Dorota Pomykala delivered a powerful performance that was arguably the most memorable performance of the year. What suits her performance is the film's audiovisual language -- the film portrays Mira's world in a tone so stark that the characters seem to be immersed in a fog, with the environment and the individual engulfing each other so that the viewer can't help but be sucked in.

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The film is the feature film debut of the French female director Emmanuelle Nicot, who was born in the 1980s. It won the FIPRESCI Award in the International Critics’ Week of the Festival de Cannes, and Zelda Samson, who played Dalva, won the Rising Star Award in the International Critics’ Week. Audiences are sure to remember these two rising stars after watching this film.

In recent years, there have been a number of films focusing on teenage girls' coming-of-age stories at home and abroad, covering such a wide range of topics that it feels hard to break through. But Dalva still finds a sharp and unique story pointcut -- the healing process of a young girl newly freed from "mind control" and aggression, and the deep imprint of trauma on a young mind.

The film maintains certain level of play, performance and audiovisual language. it is full of "mature and sophistication" beyond the expectation, just like Dalva, which is amazing.

　　Mama

　　

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Chinese director Li Dongmei’s pioneering debut film, which won the Feimu Award for Best Feature Film at the 2nd Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, which adopts a restrained, neat, long shot that chronicles seven days in a rural family.

During these seven days, the camera guides the audience across day and night, facing life and death. When the film is over, the audience's view of mother, family and time will be quietly changed.

This is a valuable work, combining the film form and theme together skillfully. It has the unique sensitivity and delicacy of a female film writer, and retains the indifference and elegance of a mature thinker. It has left a significant mark in the development of Chinese female films in recent years, and it is worthy of tasting in details.

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Penélope Cruz, who successfully played the role of mother in Pain & Glory and Parallel Mothers, once again showed her superb acting skills in L'immensita, creating a distinctive mother image. It is also one of her rare performances in Italian. Cruz was immaculately transformed into the mother of a middle-class Italian family in the 1970s.

The growing pains of the daughter and her neurotic mother are central characters in the story. From a girl to a woman, from a daughter to a mother, these two characters represent different stages in women's lives. Their pursuit of freedom, their resistance to tradition, and their self-discovery and rediscovery are all fully explored in the film.

It's worth noting that the theme of a lifetime of growing pains is lighthearted and funny, some of the song and dance sequences are stunning, and both mother and daughter show off their "superstar" demeanor, which makes the film well-deserved the finalist for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.

　　Trenque Lauquen

　　

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It is another surprise work by El Pampero Cine in Argentina. The film is divided into two parts, telling a story of disappearance and search in a chapter structure. The audience follows the protagonist through the mists of time and memory, moving forward one step after another, uncovering layer after layer, and finding her and her and her nowhere and everywhere...

The cast of this film overlaps magically with that of Love and Bruises, and Laura Paredes' narration and figure act as a go-between, integrating suspense, ratiocination, fantasy and inspiration into this unforgettable story.

The film was nominated in the Horizons section for Best Feature Film at the Venice International Film Festival and won the Golden Coconut Award for Best Feature Film at the Hainan Island International Film Festival.

　　Saint Omer 

　　

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Films such as A Guilty Conscience, Argentina, 1985 and The Sparring Partner brought trial drama back to audiences. A courtroom is like a theater and a battlefield. The film won the won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the Best Director Award at the Hainan Island International Film Festival for its calm but stirring handling of the trial.

An infanticide on a beach in northern France has put a young mother in the dock. When the defendant, the witness, the judge and the defense lawyer are all women, the multiple voices of women have come together to bring out the symbolism of the trial. In a calm and restrained presentation by all sides, the audience was also cast in the role of jurors, looking behind the scenes of the case.

Alice Diop, whose previous film We won the Best Feature Film in the Encounters section at the Berlin International Film Festival, knows a thing or two about mixing different images. In this film, the call of home video and film clips let the whole story get the release of time and space depth, which is worth watching.