Su Friedrich Movies

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the...

From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon Woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors....

In Seeing Red, three elements run parallel, overlap, diverge, lock horns and in various other ways give voice to the notion that a color, a melody,...

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of...

Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own...

The film is primarily a portrait of Kam Kelly, who teaches West African drumming to students at various New York schools, including Intermediate...

Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work...

Rules of the Road tells the story of a love affair and its demise through one of the primary objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon...

After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a...

A dream that was "left over" from Gently Down the Stream. Like many dreams, it transformed the familiar world into something more disturbing,...

With few words and no polemics, From the Ground Up shows how an ordinary cup of coffee occupies center stage in the world economy. Traveling with...

Su Friedrich has taken up the camera again in her ongoing quest to film the battleground of family life. Her mother Lore--who played the lead in The...

A nun has sexual feelings for another woman.

Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in the neighborhood for 20 years, the filmmaker was...

"From A to Z" is a loving look back at a viral phenomenon that burst out during the Covid pandemic: The Jerusalema Dance Challenge. After Master...

Mixes documentary interviews of memories of lesbian adolescence with the story of the 12-year-old girl Lou discovering her sexuality in 1960s America.

An insider's look at the first year of an activist group known as the Lesbian Avengers.

Su Friedrich is a pioneering queer filmmaker who has been making ground-breaking personal films for decades. In Today, she again eschews conventional...

The Ties That Bind is an experimental documentary about the filmmaker's mother, who was born and lived in southern Germany from 1920-1950. Through a...

Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body,...