Film director Esther Ronay: biography, career, and where to

Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair

Esther Ronay, Francine Winham

Patricia Leventon, Jessica Swift

An extended, truly extraordinary animation sequence opens this hard-line, good-humoured work from the London Women’s Film Group. The film decodes the mythic story of Rapunzel, re-framing the folk tale in a variety of unlikely ways, revealing its darker edges and exploring its role in the relationship between patriarchy and childhood. Look out for Lora Logic from X-Ray Spex, plus Dave Swarbrick from Fairport Convention.

Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair

6.1 ⚠️ 1978

Women of the Rhondda

Esther Ronay, Mary Kelly

Doreen Adams, Alice Boxall

Four women speak movingly to the camera on their experience of the General Strike and life in the 1930s and 40s in a depressed South Welsh mining village.

Women of the Rhondda

1973

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

Esther Ronay

Zoltán Iván, Márta Sebestyén

The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

1991

Великобритания, документальный