Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Examples ranging from 1943 to 2013 and produced around the world reveal varied ways to open a film to set a tone.

Directors discuss creating believability while telling simple human stories.

Directors detail filming a conversation; Angela Schanelec focuses on body language in "Places in Cities"; Cecile Tang uses the zoom as guide through the emotional shifts in "The Arch"; Sofia Coppola focuses on "The Virgin Suicides."

Scene staging points to cinema's origin in theater; Kinuyo Tanaka uses staging to shape a scene's invisible geometry and accentuate tension between characters in "The Moon Has Risen"; Maren Ade.

Jane Fonda narrates the stories of 18 films about children from Germany, Belgium, Mongolia, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Senegal, Argentina and Scotland.

Directors demonstrate the art of POV, including Jocelyn Moorhouse, Ida Lupino, Edith Carlmar, Sofia Coppola, Liliana Cavani, Kelly Reichart, Larisa Shepitko, Jennifer Kent and others.

Directors discuss bodies and sex in cinema; directors include Agnes Varda, Andrea Arnold, Marva Nabili, Pirjo Honkasalo, Marta Meszaros and Wanda Jakubows.

Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home, religion and work through movies by Edith Carlmar, Lynne Ramsay, Mai Zetterling, Liu Jiay-in, Forough Farrokhzad, Antonia Bird and others.

Films gain energy from politics ranging from "The Enchanted Desna" to "Divorce Iranian Style" and "Strange Days."

Secrets of genres, including melodrama, science fiction and horror.

Exploring gripping scenes in thrillers and other types, including Kathryn Bigelow's "Blue Steel," Carol Morley's "Dreams of a Life" and Mimi Leder's "Peacemaker."

Cinema as a kind of time machine as shown by Lynne Ramsay, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sarah Polley and Alice Rohrwacher.

Exploring how directors from France, Ukraine, Britain, American, New Zealand and Algeria use time in their movies.

Surveying ways female filmmakers have dealt with the subject of death.