Seashell and Clergyman + Cinderella + more (BFI Southbank)
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# Film Society 38
### + intro by BFI National Archive curator Bryony Dixon and guests
Presented for the first time since 1930, the Film Society’s 1930 tribute to women filmmakers.
Sunday 07 June 2026 14:45
Screen NFT3
- Total running time 146min
- With live piano accompaniment
We have been proudly championing the work of women filmmakers for many years at the BFI. But we were not the first to do so. The Film Society, a pioneering organisation of cinephiles, addressed the issue as early as 1930, in their 38th edition. It consisted solely of films produced or directed by women. Not all of these survive – we have lost films by Dorothy Arzner and Dinah Shurey – but we have enough to present, for the first time since 1930, this celebration of the women who featured in that groundbreaking programme.
### Secrets of Nature: Plants of the Underworld
UK 1930. Director Mary Field. 11min. Digital
### Cinderella
Germany 1922. Director Lotte Reinger. 16min. 35mm
### Seashell and the Clergyman
France 1928. Director Germaine Dulac. 31min. 35mm
### Peasant Women of Riazan
USSR 1927. Director Olga Preobrazhenskaya. 88min. Digital