Sally Potter

A girl whose name and language are taken away, who loses everything and everyone she loves and is driven into silence, nevertheless finds a singing voice and finally manages to find her long lost father. (Universal Focus)

The story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that.

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects"... (imdb)

A feminist adventure tale about a beautiful blond movie star who's saved from a life of being passed from man to man by a Black Frenchwoman on horseback. Under her rescuer's questioning, the comes to understand herself as a woman and as a movie queen, sending her off on an extraordinary journey into her own past. (film.com)

A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone. (imdb)

Sally Potter films children playing on the sidewalk from two cameras side-by-side, one with color film stock and the other with black and white. Sometimes the images are cut together so that the action flows uninterrupted from one side to the other, sometimes she purposefully upsets this. (imdb User Comments)

A deconstruction of Henri Murger's "Scenes de la vie de boheme" and Hollywood filmmaking. (Yahoo! Movies)

As the Cold War meets the sexual revolution in 1960s London, the lifelong friendship of two teenage girls (Elle Fanning, Alice Englert) is shattered by ideological differences and personal betrayals. This new film from director Sally Potter (Orlando) also stars Annette Bening and Christina Hendricks. (tiff.net)

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government. (imdb)

Avant-garde short by Sally Potter.

An avant-garde dance short by Sally Potter.

THE PARTY is a comedy wrapped around a tragedy. It starts as a celebration and ends with blood on the floor. (imdb)

Sally Potter's film follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning), as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future. (imdb)

Rehearsals for a fundraising gala become the arena for a struggle between two men; one, the gala director and the other, a richly talented but unstable rock drummer. As their battle for expression and control escalates against a relentless rhythmic backdrop, their public and private selves explosively collide. (imdb)