Goodbye First Love Filmotomy
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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…

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Ghazaal Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy
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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…

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Filmotomy Femme Filmmakers Festival Control Alison Becker Kimmy Gatewood
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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…

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Confessions Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy
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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…

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Ninnoc Niki Padidar Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy
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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…

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On Her Shoulders Filmotomy Femme Filmmakers Festival
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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…

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Happy For You Courtney Hope Therond Filmotomy
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Happy for You (Courtney Hope Therond)

What drives people to find success in their careers can be traced to many factors. Sometimes it’s as simple as seeking a loved one’s approval….

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy Lizard Emily Gularte
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Lizard (Emily Gularte)

While many filmmakers choose to romanticize childhood in their work, it takes an adept hand to craft a story that draws out the suffering and…

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Filmotomy Femme Filmmakers Festival The Perfect Candidate Haifaa al-Mansour
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review – The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa al-Mansour)

Haifaa al-Mansour is one of the most significant figures in cinema in Saudi Arabia. She is praised and vilified for her films which encourage discussion…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review Bad Indian The Villain Origin Story Abbey Monteiro
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Bad Indian: The Villain Origin Story (Abbey Monteiro)

Abbey is competing with Jesus for the heart of her mother, at least she thinks she is. This hilarious film about a second-generation immigrant child…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Bunker Healers Refuge
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Bunker Healers Refuge (Swati Nilesh Ghorpade)

Operation Ganga was an evacuation of medical students and other citizens of India from Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. Over 18,000 students were assisted…

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Water Ashes Katalin Egely Filmotomy
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Water Ashes (Katalin Egely)

At one point in this film the words “estamos a tiempo” appear, which roughly translate to “in due time.” Water Ashes is very much about…

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Fire of Love Sara Dosa Filmotomy Femme Filmmakers Festival
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Fire Of Love (Sara Dosa)

In the history of unusual subjects that create romantic couples, the story of this real-life volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, is towards the top…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy Dicks That I Like Johanna Gustin
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Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Dicks That I Like (Johanna Gustin)

The moment the opening voice-over drifts into our ears, with the visuals of art materials, a combination of prickly backstories and a kind of creative…

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