movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jun 27

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female director, female coscreenwriter, female protagonist
Patrick [pictured]
Mandie Fletcher directs this family comedy about a woman (Beattie Edmondson) whose life is turned upside down when she inherits a dog. Cowritten by Fletcher and Vanessa Davies.
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male director, male screenwriter, female protagonist
Adrift
Shailene Woodley stars as a woman who faces disaster on a sailing adventure. (male director and screenwriters)
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female director, female screenwriter, female protagonist
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Mari Okada writes and directs this animated fantasy drama about a near-immortal woman (the voice of Manaka Iwami) who adopts a mortal (male) child.
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female director, female screenwriter, female protagonist
The Bookshop
Isabel Coixet writes and directs this historical drama about a woman (Emily Mortimer) who opens the eponymous establishment in a small conservative town in 1950s England.
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female director, female screenwriter, female coprotagonist
Leave No Trace
Debra Granik writes and directs this drama about a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) who lives off the grid with her PTSD-afflicted veteran father.
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