Jean-Paul Lilienfeld - La journée de la jupe AKA Skirt day (2008)
IMDBSonia Bergerac is a teacher in an ordinary inner city high school on the outskirts of Paris. She is about to start a lesson on Molière when her class is disrupted by unruly pupils. In the course of a violent altercation, a handgun falls from a bag. Sonia snatches it up and fires a shot, injuring one of her students. Now that she has a captive audience, Sonia can at last do the job she is

Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
IMDBBarry Egan runs his own company, is continually hounded by his seven sisters, and every now and then gets a tiny bit violent. One odd morning a harmonium first appears in the street then a striking young lady asks for his help with her car. She re-appears a few days later and there seems to be a spark between them, but can they possibly cut through his seemingly over-complicated life and his somewhat unusual interpersonal skills?

Albertina Carri - La Rabia aka Anger (2008)
IMDBLife in the Argentine pampas is nasty, brutish and short, judging by the intense, compelling drama "La Rabia." Impressive if challenging-to-watch work by helmer Albertina Carri ("Los rubios," "Geminis") observes adultery, violence and animal slaughter largely through the eyes of two disturbed children, while use of jagged animation and luminous landscape shots transmutes the base material into something more sublime. "La Rabia" is certain to sweep through fests, but could have trouble finding distribution in some territories due to unfa

Javier Fesser - Camino (2008)
IMDBCamino AwardsCamino is an award-winning 2008 Spanish feature film directed by Javier Fesser. The plot of the film is inspired by the real story of Alexia Gonzáles-Barros, a girl who died from a cancer at fourteen in 1985 and is currently in process of canonization."Camino," is also a critique of the Opus Dei religious orderThe film won six Goya Awards, including best picture, best director, and best

Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues (2002)
IMDBActress, playwright, and political activist Eve Ensler was talking with a friend who was going through menopause in the 1990s when she was first struck by the way women spoke about their bodies, which she believed was a reflection of how they felt about themselves and their gender. Ensler was inspired to write a series of essays on women, their bodies, and the language they used to communicate about themselves which she adapted into a performance piece she called The Vagina Monologues. Opening at a