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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Caramel (Nadine Labaki)

A romantic comedy set in Beirut, Caramel is a decadent piece of foreign cinema that significantly grows on you as you start to feel its…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson)

The Greatest Luxury, Kathryn Ferguson’s vibrant, bold short docu-commercial, or this arty presentation of the fashion biz, or even a surreal promo of sartorial splendor,…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Special Podcast with Kate Lefoe / Plunge Review

[vimeo 275360568 w=640 h=360] Two women (Juliet Hindmarsh & Jeni Bezuidenhout) go into the countryside together to have fun at a lake, but then something…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review – Night (Joosje Duk)

Night starts off as a seemingly innocent film, two girls (Rachel Hilson & Genelva Krin) are getting ready for a night out, doing their make-up…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Many consider Walt Disney’s 1937 animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to be the first feature length animated film, when in fact it was…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Somersault Pike (Kate Lefoe)

At the great heights of a ten-metre diving platform, diver Mary Holgate, plays a familiar role – one which figuratively we are all aware. Knowing…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)

Transient light dances through the slits between wooden boards, and the sounds of voices dance with it. Those people are up there in their revelry…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Electrick Children (Rebecca Thomas)

Writer-director, Rebecca Thomas, brought more than a handful of her own background to Electrick Children. Her 2012 feature, an eclectic surprise I might add, was…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Andrea Arnold’s Red Road

What happens when the only person who makes you feel alive, is the very person you want dead? Andrea Arnold’s first feature-length film is uncomfortably…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Liberty Hill (Katie Graham)

How many accounts or perspectives have we had from a woman about the greatness of Trump’s America? Sure, we’ve heard all the squawking – I…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Creswick (Natalie Erika James)

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, Sam, who has returned to…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Listening Eyes (Julie Colly)

There’s a beautiful opening shot in Julie Colly’s award-winning, Si Tu T’imagines (Listening Eyes), of a girl’s hand holding an orange aloft in the daytime…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Diver (Daniela De Lange)

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Under the Skin (Carine Adler)

Carine Adler’s 1997 drama, Under the Skin, stars Samantha Morton in her debut role as Iris Kelly. A young, curious woman, who dives headfirst into…

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