MTFF Presents
Montana Film Festival Presents a monthly offering in modern & classic independent cinema, culminating in a 4-day festival every October. Keep up with MTFF at montanafilmfestival.org.

With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. An until now difficult-to-see masterpiece that has nonetheless exerted an outsize influence on generations of artists and filmmakers, Wanda is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded on society’s margins.
Cast: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins
Director: Barbara Loden
Written by: Barbara Loden
Duration: 102 min
Released: 1970
Genre: Drama/Crime
Wanda