September Releases Written or Co-Written by Women
September 2
- White Girl – written and directed by Elizabeth Wood (USA – Limited)
- A college student falls hard for a bad boy and then goes to wild extremes to get him back.
September 7
- The Stopover – written and directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin (FRANCE)
- Two young French soldiers take a three-day leave in Cyprus after finishing their tour of duty in Afghanistan.
September 16
- Miss Stevens – written by Julia Hart with Jordan Horowitz (USA – Limited)
- A teacher chaperones a group of high school students to a state drama competition.
- Mr. Church – written by Susan McMartin (USA)
- A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook.
- Bridget Jones’s Baby – written by Helen Fielding and Emma Thompson with Dan Mazer (International)
- Bridget Jones finds herself pregnant, but cannot determine the baby’s father between two past lovers.
September 22
- 24 Weeks – written by Anne Zohra Berrached with Carl Gerber (GERMANY)
- A woman who is already six months pregnant learns her unborn child will have Down’s syndrome and a serious heart defect.
September 23
- My Blind Brother – written and directed by Sophie Goodhart (USA – Limited)
- An overachieving blind man and his unaccomplished brother compete for the same woman.
- Dirty 30 – written by Mamrie Hart and Molly Prather. Hart also stars. (USA)
- Kate has only a few days to turn her life around before she turns Dirty 30, but with three besties and zero rules, anything is possible!
September 28
- The Dancer – written by Stéphanie Di Giusto and Sarah Thibau. Di Giusto directed. (FRANCE)
- The film revolves around Loïe Fuller’s complicated relationship with protégé and rival Isadora Duncan.
September 30
- Milton’s Secret – written by Sara B. Cooper with Barnet Bain and Donald Martin (USA)
- Milton feels his whole world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa Howard comes to visit, he discovers anxiety about the past and worrying about the future only make things worse and prevent him from finding true happiness moment to moment.
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – written by Jane Goldman (International)
- Jake travels and discovers Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children run by the mysterious Miss Peregrine.
- Masterminds – written by Emily Spivey with Chris Bowman and Hubbel Palmer (USA, Brazil, Croatia, Israel, Russia, Canada)
- A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.
- American Honey – written by Andrea Arnold (USA)
- A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a travelling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.