Hot Seat Anna Kerrigan Filmotomy
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Femme Film fest 23 Classic Short Weekend: Hot Seat (Anna Kerrigan)

2nd FEMME FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL (2017) How awkward is it to not be one of the cool kids invited to a teen house party? Ask Andrea…

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Circuit Delia Hess Filmotomy Femme Film Fest
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Femme Film Fest 23 Showcase Selection: Circuit (Delia Hess)

Animated short films are a charming cinematic universe all of their own and Circuit makes a worthy entry into their league. At first blush, it…

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Apart Together Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy
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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Apart, Together (Olivia Hang Zhou)

Apart, Together is a beautifully crafted story of the inexhaustible love of a mother for their child, which knows no boundaries of time or distance….

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Radical Honesty Bianca Poletti Filmotomy Femme Film Fest
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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Radical Honesty (Bianca Poletti)

With sharp, popping visuals and a pair of witty leads, Radical Honesty is a compelling, spiky watch. It’s also director Bianca Poletti’s commentary on what happens at the bleeding edge of modern relationships. The short picks apart naïve ideals by practically testing them using two horny people. And what happens is super awkward. Poletti skewers late Millennial jargon, particularly the conceit of hook ups without consequence. And pretences fall away in six short minutes. Originally conceived by screenwriter and star Allison Goldfarb as a discussion between a…

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Astonishing Little Feet Filmotomy Femme Filmmakers Festival
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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Astonishing Little Feet (Maegan Houang)

An astonishing feat! Astonishing Little Feet is a perfectly formed period short, set in a cramped New York apartment in the 1830s. Here, a young…

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Chute Strangers Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Chute // Strangers (Nora Longatti)

Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who the girl is and what…

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Indie Focus: Behind Closed Doors (Kaitlyn Boxall)

Ginger Paradise Productions, a project from independent filmmaker Kaitlyn Boxall, is best known for their tribute videos. This year, the young filmmaker has been working…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Enough (Anna Mantzaris)

Who hasn’t had a moment where they’ve had enough? Animator Anna Mantzaris follows that premise to humorous and empathetic effect in the short Enough. Within…

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Winners Announced for 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival – Roll of Honour

It goes without saying that there has been an abundance of talent across the board from all the submissions to our festival this year, and…

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The Tent FemmeFilmFest21 Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest21Review: The Tent (Rebecca Figenschau)

This 17-minute Norwegian short starts off by introducing quite the usual dysfunctional family, in which the parents attempt to organise the ideal camping trip in…

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Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)
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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)

That opening news report-esque splatter of the remarkable Hysterical Girl kicks open the door of urgency and relevance . The 13 minute short film ends…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Interview: Hide and Seek / Ghazaal filmmaker Ragini Bhasin

The super talented young filmmaker Ragini Bhasin recently spoke to Robin Write of Filmotomy about two of her acclaimed short films Ghazaal and Hide and…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: And Then The Bear (Agnès Patron)

Short films can be a mini class in how to direct, or how not to. In many cases, the beginnings of short films are intriguing,…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Pacífico Oscuro (Camila Beltrán)

Colombia is Black. Mainstream Latin American media entities have been forever self-plagued by a public acknowledgement issue in platforming Afro-Latino life. So it is remarkable…

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