Mary Stephen Movies

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten...

The universal story of the meeting between a man and a woman.

Lau may love to indulge in a bit of alcohol and womanizing, but he's also a serious writer who's respected by his colleagues in the cultural world....

A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive...

Editing is more than just assembling shots in a certain order, it's an art form, and this documentary celebrates the craft and how it has grown and...

A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of...

Set in 1935 Shanghai, the film follows two former schoolgirl friends whose relationship evolves past platonic bonds, exploring the tension between...

Ninon, an overwhelmed wife and mother, decides to invite some of her former lovers to her birthday.

Fascinated by the already legendary filmmaker, as a teenager Thomas dreamed of becoming his assistant. He wrote to JLG and asked him if he could...

A short film co-created by Eric Rohmer.

How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...

Shot during Mary Stephen's time in Canada, Labyrinthe is an experimental spellbinder. Two girls, one Caucasian and the other Asian, are dressed in...

Return to the Border is a documentary directed by Zhao Liang about his return to his hometown in China that borders the Yalu river and North Korea....

Mélanie, a young student from Paris, is thinking of posing (nude) for a photographer...

Until 2015, the government proposed land resumption without consultation to build a subsidized housing unit. In Hong Kong, where land is extremely...

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s...

A documentary by Mary Stephen

A documentary by Mary Stephen.

This lyrical film diary chronicles a westward “pilgrimage” Stephen made, together with her partner John Cressey, at the end of her...

The "Great Sichuan Earthquake" took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. In the days after, ordinary people salvage destroyed pig farms in the mountains,...