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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)

When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to live in a Zambian witch…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laura Moss’ Fry Day

It is the night of Ted Bundy’s execution, and an entrepreneurial teenager decides to make a quick buck selling Polaroids of those attending. These are…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Awakenings (Penny Marshall)

Based upon the memoir of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) revisits the summer of ‘69 – when Sacks explored ways in which…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Mrs. Poucheau

First published March 21st 2018 At some point in our lives, we will inevitably experience the loss of a loved one. It’s a sad and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Monsoon Wedding – Mira Nair

Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding blends wonderful Indian tradition into a modern story of family, love, and the test of values. It introduces cultural backgrounds into…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Pea Pod

Pea Pod is a hilarious short which is amazing in the fact that the film’s cast and crew was made up of 100% women with…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Houda Benyamina’s Divines

I remember my wife so happened to be fed up of the coming-of-age movies when we sat down to watch this one. Or else she…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats

In Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman’s second feature film, the idea of sexual identity is explored through the main character Frankie (played by Harris Dickinson). Frankie…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ekaj

Originally published July 23rd 2018 Ekaj deals with hard material and stark revelations. One of its most powerful scenes comes towards the movie’s close, as…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari

You don’t have to be an expert, let alone a film critic, to have your thoughts swing over to the maniacal, mesmeric Dogtooth, when watching Athina Rachel…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray

On Dangerous Ground is one of the most unique and interesting classic film noirs. Here is a film that begins in hard-boiled city streets, following…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ninnoc – Niki Padidar

The opening hustle bustle, the mellow sounds, of clustered little voices, we soon figure out is a school. And drops of slight sound thuds, not…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Snow White Cologne – Amanda Eliasson

Snow White Cologne is a visual animated poem created using acrylic paint on paper, it not like anything you have ever seen before. Beautiful and…

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