The Left-Handed Girl It's the closest thing to a movie of Sean Baker not directed by Sean Baker. In fact, if we look at the credits, Sean Baker is involved in a bit: the author ofAnora He's the producer, co-writer, and editor. And if we dig a little deeper, we discover that director Shih-Ching Tsou has been a collaborator of Baker's for many years: she's produced Starlet, Tangerine, The Florida project and Red rocket before he started directing his first film. He could have been behind the camera (well, behind the phone, because The Left-Handed Girl It was entirely filmed on an iPhone 13) much earlier: the origins of this project date back to 2010, when Shih-Ching Tsou and Baker co-wrote a script that didn't secure funding until 2022.

It's not easy to find information on Google about Lizzie Borden, the director who revolutionized feminist cinema in the 80s with Borne in llamas (1983) and Working girls (1986), especially since Netflix announced that the fourth season of Monster It will be dedicated to this famous killer with whom the filmmaker has shared a name since she was 12. "My real name is Linda Borden, but when I was little, to tease me, the kids called me Elsie after a cow that appeared on milk bottles, or Lizzie, after the axe killer," explains Borden, who speaks to ARA by phone from [location missing]. "So a father to whom a killer, a killer, that, to me, a killer, that, I love that I told them that a killer, a killer, that, a killer, that, a killer, that, a killer, to whom, a killer, that ... that, a killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, that, a, killer, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that The focus will begin on November 18 at the Filmoteca with a screening of his first feature film, the experimental documentary Regrouping (1976), in a session presented remotely by the director. "As a young woman, I tried to be a painter and wrote for the magazine Artforum, But in the art world, all the power was in the hands of men, she recalls. One day I met four feminist activists who I found very interesting, and it occurred to me to make a documentary with them. Regrouping It was meant to be a collective effort, but the group broke up during filming, and Borden finished the project solo. "For many years I kept it in a drawer; I didn't feel right screening it," he explains.

The Film Library welcomed one of the season's most distinguished visitors this Tuesday: Ira Sachs (Memphis, 1965) is an indispensable name in independent cinema of recent decades, a director who has been able to portray torrid passions in Passages (2023) or Keep the lights on (2012) but also the impact on our lives of more mundane issues such as being forced to change flats (Love is strange, 2014) or the difficulty of managing material and emotional inheritances (Summer in Brooklyn, from 2016).