Women Make Movies
Often called the "Mother of the French New Wave," this filmmaker blended fiction and documentary as seen in her debut film, La Pointe Courte.
Agnes Varda
These French brothers are credited with inventing the Cinématographe, a device that functioned as a camera, projector, and film printer.
Auguste and Louis Lumière
This genre is what is typically associated with European films
Art Cinema
This film movement contained internationally renown directors like Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Werner Herzog
New German Cinema
This pioneering filmmaker is considered the first woman to direct a film, starting her career in 1896. She went on to create over 1,000 films.
Alice Guy-Blache
The 1895 screening of Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory marked the first-ever public showing of films in this city and in this European country.
Paris, France
These two completely different filmmaking styles were considered prominent in early cinema
Actualites/Documentary and Spectacle
First started in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, this film movement focused on workers and the accomplishments of a Communist government
Socialist Realism
This Italian filmmaker became the first woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director
Lina Wertmuller
This country was the first to push forward the idea that films could be used as a tool to educate the masses.
Soviet Union
This German director achieved his commercial success in Hollywood by making melodramas
Douglas Sirk
Unique for its use of humor as social critique, this film movement embraced the surrealist art movement
Czech New Wave
This Dutch filmmaker made history when her "feminist fairy tale" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Marleen Gorris
This Swedish director is credited with being the filmmaker that started the academic field for studying films
Igmar Bergman
This country was typically known for its use of landscapes, psychological dramas, and sexualtiy
Sweden
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is considered the first film of this German film movement
German Expressionism
This Hungarian director won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut film My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi
This film studio was the first one established in Denmark and quickly became vertically and horizontally integrated studio.
Nordisk Film Company
This influential Polish director first gained international recognition for his trilogy about World War II and reflecting on post-war trauma
Andrzej Wajda
This set of rules, used by the Dogme 95 movement, aimed to strip filmmaking down to its basics
Vows of Chastity