Sally Potter Movies

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and...

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to...

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that...

The film follows 24 hours in the life of father and daughter Leo and Molly, as they weave their way around New York City, until their ordinary but...

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She...

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the...

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound...

An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other, a richly talented but...

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A...

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian...

What happens after the curtain falls on the death of Mimi, tragic heroine of Puccini's La boheme. In Thriller, Mimi teams up with the opera's comic...

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government.

A re-framing both of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, and of Potter’s film of the same name. Through song and dance, the new film...

People who have experienced fear - those involved in the peace movement, a child, a politian and a film director - discuss the psychological and...

Imagining October explores art and politics in the final years of the Cold War, drawing connections between pre-Perestroika Russia and Thatcherite...

One of the earliest events to combine dance on film projected in juxtaposition with live performances by the same dancers. The films included...

Explores rage, its function and its representation in film. Why does rage occur, how does it differ between people and how do children feel about it?...