Category: Festival
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: ‘The Rider’ Is A Beautiful Slice of Tragic Americana
The Western is a genre that has been reinvented time and time again. Many creatives have interpolated the classic American genre but no modern interpretation…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Land Without Evil (Katalin Egely)
What a journey this is. Katalin Egely, an extremely well-travelled Hungarian filmmaker, incorporates her extensive prowess with animation story-telling to not only embrace the indefinable…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Aria (Myrsini Aristidou)
The Cannes Film Festival get Rosetta so the Femme Filmmakers Festival get Aria. The comparisons to the Dardennes’ Palme d’Or winning drama are clear as…
Day Ten of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Sunday 29 September Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availability based on your country. The…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)
The opening seconds of Kate Novack‘s terrific visual case study, Hysterical Girl, sifts your psyche through several potential discourses of film story-telling. A blizzard of…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
First loves can be sweet and fleeting, or intense and tumultuous. Goodbye First Love, the 2011 third feature from director Mia Hansen-Løve, lands in the…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Ghazaal (Ragini Bhasin)
Wherever we live in this world, or wherever we have been, seldom few of us can share our experiences of being a thirteen year-old girl…
Day Nine of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Saturday 28 September Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availability based on your country….
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Control (Alison Becker, Kimmy Gatewood)
In Kimmy Gatewood‘s masterful short film Control, the protagonist’s immaculate attention to detail is a truly admirable strength as well as a sign of her…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Confessions (Stephanie Kaznocha)
Once you understand the tone of Stephanie Kaznocha‘s Confessions, you’ll soon realize how much fun a pair of old ladies can be. And when they…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Ninnoc (Niki Padidar)
Ninnoc’s pensive, sombre stare might be a burdened distraction from those big blue beautiful eyes. The echoes of children in the school halls is deliberately…
Day Eight of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Friday 27 September Polisse (Maïwenn) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availability based on your country. She Dies Tomorrow…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
Meet Nadia Murad, a Sinjar refugee, who has more scars than we can imagine during a lifetime – let alone on the shoulders of a…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Give It To Me (Courtney Hope Therond)
One pleasure of watching and reviewing the work of burgeoning female filmmakers is the juxtaposition you feel in how sexual relationships are portrayed in their…
