Ammonite

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) devotes her days on Southwest England’s Dorset coast to finding and cataloguing fossils of ammonites, extinct and beautiful sea creatures. In the early 19th century this is no work for a woman, and no scientific society will have her. So Mary toils alone, even as male scientists visit to study and take credit for her work. When one visitor brings along his grieving wife, Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan), then abandons her there to return to London, the two women have no one to turn to but each other. (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)