How do we define women’s film? Given its formal and cultural diversity, is this a productive or reductive categorization? What are the principal preoccupations of female directors and how do they negotiate scopophilia of the established filmmaking tradition? How do they depict female subjectivity with regard to race, class, and sexuality and what type of discourse do they generate within their cultural environments? How do they navigate the body politics in various global contexts? What are the challenges securing funding and visibility on the (inter) national production and distribution circuits? These are some of the questions to be addressed in this course. Relying on cine-feminist and postcolonial theory and critical scholarship, we will watch a vast array of 21st century films by female filmmakers from all continents and examine their aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects. We will look into the mechanisms of highlighting women’s issues and analyze the impact these auteurs had on established socio-cultural and artistic practices. Some of the directors include Leila Djansi, Agnès Varda, Susanne Bier, Mira Nair, Lulu Wang, Jasmila Žbanić, Naomi Kawase, and others.