[1][7] Gavron began her film career making documentaries, a field that seemed "more accessible at that point," but kept returning to narrative filmmaking because of her desire to tell stories.
[8] Her first film, This Little Life (2003), is classified as a television drama, with the plot surrounding a couple and their premature born child;[1] Brick Lane (2007) is her second most recognized feature film, that is an adaptation of Monica Ali's novel of the same name,[9] which encapsulates the life of a Bangladeshi, female immigrant living in London, U.K;[1] Village at the End of the World (2012) is a documentary that Gavron directed in a peninsula in Greenland.
[2] In Brick Lane (2007), Gavron centers on the female protagonist in "one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the United Kingdom.
The film conveys important themes regarding legal and social positions of women, wives and mothers in 1912.
[2] Gavron believes that the women's suffrage movement must be regarded as a "multi stranded, and complex story that is still unfolding.
"[2] Gavron intended Suffragette to be telling of important moments in the past, but also relevant in present day.