List of female film directors
List of female film directors worldwide:
A
- Anjali Menon
- Jennifer Abbott
- Marguerite Abouet
- Abiola Abrams
- Joey Lauren Adams
- Perry Miller Adato
- Anita W. Addison
- Maren Ade
- Yasmin Ahmad
- Peggy Ahwesh
- Kyōko Aizome
- Mania Akbari
- Chantal Akerman
- Zoya Akhtar
- Lexi Alexander
- Stephanie Allain
- Debbie Allen
- Elizabeth Allen
- Suzana Amaral
- Tata Amaral
- Allison Anders
- Jane Anderson
- Brittany Andrews
- Preeti Aneja
- Jennifer Aniston
- Catherine Annau
- Martha Ansara
- Lisa Rose Apramian
- Shamim Ara
- Danielle Arbid
- Louise Archambault
- Jane Arden (director)
- Asia Argento
- Franny Armstrong
- Gillian Armstrong
- Andrea Arnold
- Rosanna Arquette
- Karen Arthur
- Natasha Arthy
- Dorothy Arzner
- Amma Asante
- Jacqueline Audry
- Shona Auerbach
- Nurith Aviv
- Ronit Avni
B
- Jamie Babbit
- Iskra Babich
- Julia Bacha
- Jennifer Baichwal
- Paule Baillargeon
- Bang Eun-jin
- Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
- Manon Barbeau
- Laura Bari
- Neema Barnette
- Joy Batchelor
- Drew Barrymore
- Kathy Bates
- Maria Beatty
- Gabrielle Beaumont
- André-Line Beauparlant
- Fatma Begum
- Feryal Behzad
- Esther Bell
- Edet Belzberg
- María Luisa Bemberg
- Jessica Bendinger
- Yamina Benguigui
- Amber Benson
- Amy J. Berg
- Shari Springer Berman
- Juliet Berto
- Jane Marsh Beveridge
- Troy Beyer
- Pooja Bhatt
- Susanne Bier
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Anna Biller
- Patricia Birch
- Antonia Bird
- Simone Bitton
- Alice Guy-Blaché
- Lidia Bobrova
- Anna Boden
- Icíar Bollaín
- Natalya Bondarchuk
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Manju Borah
- Lizzie Borden (director)
- Shonali Bose
- Karen Boswall
- Kansas Bowling
- Muriel Box
- Anja Breien
- Catherine Breillat
- Isabelle Breitman
- Zana Briski
- Tricia Brock (director)
- Katrina Holden Bronson
- Katherine Brooks
- Christene Browne
- Valerie Buhagiar
- Nanette Burstein
- Maria Burton
- Byun Young-joo
C
- Anne-Marie Cadieux
- Julia Cameron
- Jane Campion
- Kat Candler
- Dyan Cannon
- Patricia Cardoso
- Edith Carlmar
- Niki Caro
- Ana Carolina (director)
- Camille de Casabianca
- Alana Cash
- Alexandra Cassavetes
- Zoe Cassavetes
- Cecil Castellucci
- Liliana Cavani
- Gurinder Chadha
- Tanuja Chandra
- Sylvia Chang
- Shirley Cheechoo
- Joan Chen
- Mabel Cheung
- Patricia Chica
- Lisa Cholodenko
- Zero Chou
- Rae Dawn Chong
- Joyce Chopra
- Zero Chou
- Věra Chytilová
- Katerina Cizek
- Shirley Clarke
- Maja Classen
- Susan Cohen
- Isabel Coixet
- Giada Colagrande
- Cristina Comencini
- Nicole Conn
- Heather Connell
- Martha Coolidge
- Eleanor Coppola
- Sofia Coppola
- Cristina Kotz Cornejo
- Catherine Corsini
- Michèle Cournoyer
- Leanna Creel
- Emma-Kate Croghan
- Catherine Crouch
- Carolynne Cunningham
D
- Byambasuren Davaa
- Cherien Dabis
- Holly Dale
- Tamela D'Amico
- Mireille Dansereau
- Gia Darling
- Julie Dash
- Tamra Davis
- Tracey Deer
- Régine Deforges
- Donna Deitch
- Julie Delpy
- Claire Denis
- Pouran Derakhshandeh
- Maya Deren
- Dhvani Desai
- Virginie Despentes
- Arundhati Devi
- Aishwarya R. Dhanush
- Aïda Mady Diallo
- Vivienne Dick
- Katherine Dieckmann
- Assia Djebar
- Yinka Djin
- Françoise Doherty
- Gail Dolgin
- Doris Dörrie
- Illeana Douglas
- Elissa Down
- Polly Draper
- Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew
- Germaine Dulac
- Alma Duncan
- Lena Dunham
- Cheryl Dunye
- Marguerite Duras
- Ava DuVernay
E
F
- Trey Fanjoy
- Mitra Farahani
- Valerie Faris
- Vera Farmiga
- Sadaf Foroughi
- Forough Farrokhzad
- Sepideh Farsi
- Safi Faye
- Rachel Feldman
- Sally Field
- Martha Fiennes
- Sophie Fiennes
- Denise Filiatrault
- Jennifer Flackett
- Tracy Flannigan
- Luise Fleck
- Ann Marie Fleming
- Anne Fletcher
- Anna Foerster
- Sheree Folkson
- Anne Fontaine
- Jodie Foster
- Beryl Fox
- Jennifer Fox
- Liz Friedlander
- Kim Friedman
- Vivi Friedman
- Su Friedrich
- Shirley Frimpong-Manso
- Grete Frische
- Soleil Moon Frye
- Kei Fujiwara
G
- Nisha Ganatra
- Nicole Garcia
- Katja von Garnier
- Julie Gavras
- Geretta Geretta
- Jennifer Getzinger
- Tina Gharavi
- Coky Giedroyc
- Maria Giese
- Melody Gilbert
- Leah Gilliam
- Lesli Linka Glatter
- Delphine Gleize
- Lana Gogoberidze
- Dennie Gordon
- Marleen Gorris
- Rachel Goslins
- Lisa Gottlieb
- Debra Granik
- Lee Grant
- Susannah Grant
- Janet Greek
- Amy Greenfield
- Lauren Greenfield
- Maggie Greenwald
- Annie Griffin
- Esther Gronenborn
- Aurora Guerrero
- Sonali Gulati
- Xiaolu Guo
- Alice Guy-Blaché
H
- Joana Hadjithomas
- Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Randa Haines
- Lisa Gay Hamilton
- Sylvia Hamilton
- Tanya Hamilton
- Barbara Hammer
- Sanaa Hamri
- Marion Hänsel
- Mia Hansen-Løve
- Catherine Hardwicke
- Mary Harron
- Danielle Harris
- Jessica Hausner
- Goldie Hawn
- Salma Hayek
- Helaine Head
- Jen Heck
- Amy Heckerling
- Birgit Hein
- Manijeh Hekmat
- Marielle Heller
- Heather Hemmens
- Astrid Henning-Jensen
- Cheryl Hines
- Ivy Ho
- Lyndall Hobbs
- Victoria Hochberg
- Tamar Simon Hoffs
- Joanna Hogg
- Agnieszka Holland
- Helen Holmes
- Peggy Holmes
- Nicole Holofcener
- Mahboubeh Honarian
- Solveig Hoogesteijn
- Gwyneth Horder-Payton
- Rebecca Horn
- Joan Horvath (filmmaker)
- Dianne Houston
- Bryce Dallas Howard
- Hu Mei
- Bronwen Hughes
- Ann Hui
- Danièle Huillet
- Bonnie Hunt
- Courtney Hunt
- Helen Hunt
- Nicki Hunter
- Tonya Hurley
- Anjelica Huston
I
J
- Mehreen Jabbar
- Annemarie Jacir
- Sarah Jacobson
- Wanda Jakubowska
- Annabel Jankel
- Agnès Jaoui
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Patty Jenkins
- Tamara Jenkins
- Jeong Jae-eun
- Jiang Wenli
- Liu Jiayin
- Angelina Jolie
- G. B. Jones
- Hella Joof
- Mary Jordan (filmmaker)
- Yashira Jordán
- Nana Jorjadze
- Suma Josson
- Petra Joy
- Maureen Judge
- Miranda July
K
- Ellie Kanner
- Betty Kaplan
- Deborah Kaplan
- Nelly Kaplan
- Prema Karanth
- Niki Karimi
- Anna Karina
- Matia Karrell
- Nicole Kassell
- Daphna Kastner
- Nancy Kates
- Ish Amitoj Kaur
- Mariko Kawana
- Naomi Kawase
- Diane Keaton
- Dorota Kędzierzawska
- Elodie Keene
- Jill Kelly
- Elza Kephart
- Bridgette Kerkove
- Sarah Kernochan
- Joanna Kerns
- Farah Khan
- Callie Khouri
- Beeban Kidron
- Kaleena Kiff
- Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran
- Clare Kilner
- Jacqueline Kim
- So Yong Kim
- Eilis Kirwan
- Natasha Kiss
- Bonnie Sherr Klein
- Ana Kokkinos
- Kathy Kolla
- Larysa Kondracki
- Barbara Kopple
- Torill Kove
- Ellen Kuras
- Katy Kurtzman
- Diane Kurys
- Karyn Kusama
- Julia Kwan
L
- Nadine Labaki
- Christine Lahti
- Kalpana Lajmi
- Evelyn Lambart
- Alix Lambert
- Mary Lambert
- Micheline Lanctôt
- Jessica Landaw
- Valerie Landsburg
- Tory Lane
- Yelena Lanskaya
- Clara Law
- Tracie Laymon
- Margaret Lazarus
- Lauren Lazin
- Caroline Leaf
- Mimi Leder
- Georgia Lee
- Iara Lee
- Kat Lehmer
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Julia Leigh
- Kasi Lemmons
- Juliana Luecking
- Naomi Levine
- Mary Lewis
- Li Yu (director)
- Rakel Liekki
- Georgina Lightning
- Nnegest Likké
- Caroline Link
- Tatyana Lioznova
- Liu Miaomiao (director)
- Claudia Llosa
- Phyllida Lloyd
- Jayne Loader
- Sondra Locke
- Barbara Loden
- Julie Lofton
- Julia Loktev
- Kim Longinotto
- Agnieszka Lukasiak
- Kátia Lund
- Ida Lupino
- Joy Lusco
- Noémie Lvovsky
- Lottie Lyell
- Dorothy Lyman
- Jennifer Lynch
- Laurie Lynd
- Lisbeth Lynghøft
M
- Ma Liwen
- Angelina Maccarone
- Alison Maclean
- Aoife Madden
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Sarah Maldoror
- Anna Malle
- Andrea Mann
- Eisha Marjara
- Frances Marion
- Anna Mastro
- Paulette McDonagh
- Hettie MacDonald
- Danica McKellar
- Madonna (entertainer)
- Madhumitha (director)
- Maria Maggenti
- Sharon Maguire
- Maïwenn
- Hana Makhmalbaf
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Sarah Maldoror
- Yassamin Maleknasr
- Nancy Malone
- Laura Mañá
- Babette Mangolte
- Suhasini Maniratnam
- Ami Canaan Mann
- Michelle Manning
- Haifaa al-Mansour
- Sophie Marceau
- Eisha Marjara
- Giulia Marletta
- Penny Marshall
- Tonie Marshall
- Lucrecia Martel
- Darnell Martin
- Aurora Martinez
- Laetitia Masson
- Mary Stuart Masterson
- Elaine May
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer
- Melanie Mayron
- Patricia Mazuy
- Elske McCain
Valerie McCaffrey
- Claire McCarthy
- Francine McDougall
- Nancy Meckler
- Maria de Medeiros
- Ursula Meier
- Deepa Mehta
- Anna Melikian
- Linda Mendoza
- Nina Menkes
- Agnès Merlet
- Marzieh Meshkini
- Márta Mészáros
- Leah Meyerhoff
- Nancy Meyers
- Vanessa Middleton
- Anne-Marie Miéville
- Tahmineh Milani
- Elisa Miller
- Rebecca Miller
- Sharron Miller
- Tracey Moffatt
- Hengameh Mofid
- Hillie Molenaar
- Karen Moncrieff
- Melissa Monet
- Adriana Monti
- Jocelyn Moorhouse
- Soudabeh Moradian
- Jeanne Moreau
- Yolande Moreau
- Stephanie Morgenstern
- Judy Morris
- Dee Mosbacher
- Emilia Mosquito
- Granaz Moussavi
- Kira Muratova
- Beth Murphy
- Alison Murray
N
O
P
- Euzhan Palcy
- Gail Palmer
- Diane Paragas
- Sai Paranjpye
- Francine Parker
- Pratibha Parmar
- Laura Parnes
- Nelofer Pazira
- Barbara Peeters
- Kimberly Peirce
- Alexandra Pelosi
- Janet Perlman
- Ellen Perry
- Kristine Peterson
- Pimpaka Towira
- Carol Pineau
- Anne Claire Poirier
- Sarah Polley
- Léa Pool
- Sally Potter
- Sumithra Peries
- Deborah Pratt
- Olga Preobrazhenskaya (director)
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
R
- Deborah Raffin
- Yvonne Rainer
- Rajashree
- Soundarya Rajinikanth
- Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
- Lynne Ramsay
- Suze Randall
- Trisha Ray
- Amy Redford
- Dee Rees
- Kelly Reichardt
- Lotte Reiniger
- Revathi
- Shonda Rhimes
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Patricia Riggen
- Anita Rinaldi
- Joan Rivers
- Angela Robinson
- Julie Anne Robinson
- Melanie Rodriga
- Rosemary Rodriguez
- Gerry Rogers
- Bethany Rooney
- Lee Rose (director)
- Rose Rosenblatt
- Tatia Rosenthal
- Vanessa Roth
- Stephanie Rothman
- Candida Royalle
- Patricia Rozema
- Catarina Ruivo
S
- Jocelyne Saab
- Randa Chahal Sabag
- Leontine Sagan
- Sakura Sakurada
- Helke Sander
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Arlene Sanford
- Sangeeta
- Satarupa Sanyal
- Valeria Sarmiento
- Shimako Sato
- Marjane Satrapi
- Savitri (actress)
- Nancy Savoca
- Lone Scherfig
- Greta Schiller
- T.M. Scorzafava
- Avy Scott
- Cynthia Scott
- Jordan Scott
- Nell Scovell
- Susan Seidelman
- Arna Selznick
- Aparna Sen
- Lorraine Senna
- Amy Serrano
- Coline Serreau
- Beverly Shaffer
- Lee Shallat-Chemel
- Jessica Sharzer
- Helen Shaver
- Adrienne Shelly
- Angela Shelton
- Lynn Shelton
- Millicent Shelton
- Larisa Shepitko
- Kirsten Sheridan
- Cindy Sherman
- Tiffany Shlain
- Cate Shortland
- Shu Lea Cheang
- Esfir Shub
- Mina Shum
- Floria Sigismondi
- Alexandra Silk
- Joan Micklin Silver
- Thérèse Sita-Bella
- Kari Skogland
- Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Helena Solberg
- Yuliya Solntseva
- Frances-Anne Solomon
- Mingmongkol Sonakul
- Safiya Songhai
- Jane Spencer
- Penelope Spheeris
- Inoka Sathyangani
- Jill Sprecher
- Casandra Stark
- J.A. Steel
- Paprika Steen
- Katherine Stenholm
- Virginia L. Stone
- Lynne Stopkewich
- Barbra Streisand
- Susanna Styron
- Sabiha Sumar
- Elizabeth Sung
T
- Jihan El-Tahri
- Rea Tajiri
- Lisa Takeba
- Rachel Talalay
- Shashwati Talukdar
- Bhavna Talwar
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Loveleen Tandan
- Nadia Tass
- Heather Taylor
- Sam Taylor-Wood
- Julie Taymor
- Sakane Tazuko
- Suzie Templeton
- Joan Tewkesbury
- Lucy Thane
- Betty Thomas
- May Miles Thomas
- Caroline Thompson
- Jody Thompson
- Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
- Ondi Timoner
- Victory Tischler-Blue
- Stacy Title
- Farkhondeh Torabi
- Fina Torres
- Gariné Torossian
- Wendy Toye
- Lindalee Tracey
- Monika Treut
- Rose Troche
- Margarethe von Trotta
U
V
W
- Lana Wachowski
- Lucy Walker (director)
- Nancy Walker
- Dearbhla Walsh
- Rachel Ward
- Sarah Watt
- Lois Weber
- Claudia Weill
- Christine Welsh
- Lina Wertmüller
- Anne Wheeler
- Susanna White
- Joyce Wieland
- Nettie Wild
- Lois Wilson (actress)
- Sandy Wilson (director)
- Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
- Kate Woods
- Jacqueline Wright
- Alice Wu
X
Y
- Naoko Yamada
- Tizuka Yamasaki
- Pamela Yates
- Linda Yellen
- Yin Lichuan
- Suzi Yoonessi
- Madison Young
- Jessica Yu
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Z
- Mona Zandi Haghighi
- Sara Zandieh
- Jasmila Žbanić
- Ona Zee
- Mai Zetterling
- Zhao Wei
- Lydia Zimmermann
- Zoya Akhtar
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