Good suggestions-haven't seen Yvonne Rainer films,understand Film about a Woman who..is her most famous.Silences of the Palace is a Tunisian film,debut of Moufida Tlatli,(who's since done The Season of Men).An intimate depiction of the (suppressed)lives of women,particularly a  serving girl who's a fine singer,in a Tunisian palace in the 1950's.Sensitive,delicate and thoughtful,a colourful mosaic;well-liked when shown at our film society a few years ago.Best wishes.