Claudia Weill has directed documentaries, plays, television, and was only the third woman admitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following Ida Lupino and Dorothy Arzner. Girlfriends was produced independently, primarily from grants, and later sold to Warner Brothers, and is one of only 82 films by a woman to compete at Cannes. The film is alternatively hilarious and heartbreaking, a study of a young Jewish woman’s journey to self-acceptance as an artist and a person in 1970’s New York. 

A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.

“In its limning of the intricacies of a friendship between women in the days of second-wave feminism, when women were coming to acknowledge one another in new ways, this is a singular story.” ~ Carol Gilligan, Criterion

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