*Sheer Madness* (1983), Margarethe Von Trotta
        *The African Woman* (1990), Margarethe Von Trotta.
        I recommend that you look at this filmmaker's work.  She deals
with many issues that you are working on.  If you can extend the
friendship issue into family relationships--specifically sisters, Von
Trotta would be an ideal case study.  Check out her filmmography.  Thse
two are specifically about female friendship.
        Also, *Girlfriends* (1977), Claudia Weill
        I am not recommending *Desert Hearts* because, though an
independent film, you said that you were not interested in Hollywood and
the film throws the worst Hollywood signifiers at its spectators.  When I
taught it in my Feminist Film Theory class, I had to change the title of
the seminar from Lesbian Cinema to Lesbians onscreen.
 
        Gloria Monti
 
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