The first narrative feature helmed by a woman in Quebec is getting a 50th-anniversary restoration and making its U.S. premiere. Mireille Dansereau’s “Dream Life” (“La vie rêvée”), the story of two young women who become friends after meeting at a Montreal film production company, opens at New York City’s Metrograph November 4.

“All women are interested in is their feelings and their crotch,” we’re told in a new trailer for pic. In a snippet of another scene, a man cat-calling the women uses the word “whore” when his advances are ignored. The French-Canadian drama follows Isabelle (Liliane Lemaître-Auger) and Virginie (Véronique Le Flaguais), who share “their romantic fantasies and disillusions,

Emilia Jones and Susanna Fogel are reuniting. The pair just teamed up for “Cat Person,” a film adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker story about a college sophomore’s relationship with an older man. That project is currently in post-production, and now they’re lining up another collaboration: Jones, who led this year’s Best Picture winner, “CODA,” will topline “Winner,” Fogel’s “darkly comedic” biopic of whistleblower Reality Winner. Deadline broke the news. 

Penned by Kerry Howley and based on her New York Magazine feature story, the film follows Winner (Jones), “a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as

The ACA Cinema Project has announced a new film series showcasing women visionaries in Japanese cinema, ​​The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from Japan Cuts and Beyond. A press release announced that the series featuring contemporary and classic directors, producers, cinematographers and screenwriters will be held from November 11 to 20 in New York.

With titles selected by Japan Society and the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (ACA), the series will spotlight “the essential roles that female artists play from behind the camera in Japanese cinema — ranging from directing and screenwriting to production and cinematography.” 

The North American premiere of Akiko Ohku’s comedy “Wedding High” (“ウェディング・ハイ”) will open the series.

The Force is with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: the “Ms. Marvel” director has been tapped to helm a “Star Wars” film. Deadline reports that the script is still being written, and plot details remain under wraps.

Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who is set to make her narrative feature directorial debut with “Brilliance,” a futuristic story about a world where non-neurotypical people — and their gifts, which include reading people’s secrets by how they fold their arms — are demonized by society.

Two of Obaid-Chinoy’s shorts, “Saving Face” and “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” won Oscars and Emmys. Her feature docs include “Song of Lahore”

“Physical” actress Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures is bringing Hannah Kent’s award-winning novel “Devotion” to the big screen. A press release announced that Dollhouse will be joining forces with Storyd Group, which invests in Australian women filmmakers, to produce the 19th century love story between two young women living in Prussia.

“Hanne and Thea are on the verge of womanhood when they first meet, both outsiders who find a kindred spirit in the other,” the release details. “Their Lutheran community flees religious persecution and seeks resettlement and freedom in South Australia, a journey that puts their faith and friendship under threat but proves the bond of love is unbreakable.”

Kent is

“If I don’t have you, I feel like I lose myself. I become someone else,” a girl tells her sister in a new trailer for “You Resemble Me.” Described by writer-director Dina Amer as an exploration of “the unexamined roots of trauma” that deals with “survival and belonging,” the award-winning drama tells the story of two sisters living on the outskirts of Paris.

Eventually, the siblings are torn apart, and the eldest, Hasna (Mouna Soualem), is left struggling to make sense of her identity. “I can change who I am to get love. It’s my superpower,” she explains. “You don’t know all the women I’ve been.”

“I want the audience to

Good news, Pynk Posse: two months after concluding its second season, Katori Hall’s strip club drama “P-Valley” has been renewed by Starz. The premium cable network has renewed its most-watched U.S. series for a third season, per The Hollywood Reporter.

An adaptation of Hall’s play “Pussy Valley,” the TV series follows the lives of the employees working at The Pynk, a strip club located in the fictional city of Chucalissa, Mississippi. 

“P-Valley” stars Brandee Evans (“B-Boy Blues”) as Mercedes Woodbine, The Pynk’s headliner who wants to open her own dance gym; Nicco Annan (“This Is Us”) as Uncle Clifford Sayles, the club’s non-binary owner and proprietor trying to rescue The

Awards season is heating up. Earier this week, nominations for the Critics Choice Documentary Awards dropped and now The Cinema Eye Honors is announcing its first round of noms for doc films and series.

Five titles are nominated for Broadcast Film, and two are helmed by women: “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,” Rory Kennedy’s investigation into the world’s largest aerospace company, and “Playing with Sharks,” Sally Aitken’s tribute to marine conservationist Valerie Taylor.

Of six nominees for Nonfiction Series, four are directed or co-directed by women. Titles in the running include “Black and Missing,” Geeta Gandbhir and Samantha Knowles’ exploration of how systemic racism impacts missing persons cases, and another look