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Long Distance Film Festival, Marguerite Duras, Palestinian Cinema & More: Online Screening Roundup

The past year has led to a rise in unique digital film programming, in particular greater accessibility for short-form and experimental films globally. Festivals like…

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Kelsie Moore
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Kelsie Moore, director of The Get, Shelter in Place and The Gray Area

When the short films were whittled down to the final 20 for the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, it was hard to…

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Ghazaal
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Ghazaal (Ragini Bhasin)

The story of a young girl in a refugee camp struggling with her period, Ghazaal offers a powerful depiction of the lack of basic dignity…

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Wake Up
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Wake Up (Olivia Wilde)

Previously working on Booksmart, which marked her directorial debut and received Golden Globes and Bafta nominations in 2019, Olivia Wilde claimed her status as one…

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Long Time Listener
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never fails to impress no matter…

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FemeFilmFest20 Review Round-up: Home, Girl in the Hallway, Find Me Mother, The Gray Area

Margot Douglas joins the Femme Filmmakers Festival fray to chime on four of the short films featured in this year’s Competition Selection. Home (Anita Bruvere)…

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Welcome Home
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Welcome Home (Armita Keyani)

Welcome Home is a funny, awkward, and simple look at different cultures and religions along with the combination of the two and the projection of…

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Just Me and You
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Director Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers Talks about Juste Moi et Toi

Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers provided one of the most heart-warming short films of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival in Just Moi et Toi (Just Me and You)….

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Sophie B Jacques
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FemmeFilmFest20 interview: the visionary director behind Foyer, Sophie B Jacques

One of the most highly acclaimed short films to play as part of the Competition Selection at this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival was Foyer, written…

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Anita Bruvere
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Anita Bruvere the director of the animated short film ‘Home’

Every year at the Femme Filmmakers Festival we are dazzled by the array of talent that shines through the endless techniques of animated short films….

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Just Me and You
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Just Me and You (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers)

Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi) is a short, Canadian film directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. It takes us on a poignant journey between…

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Concealer
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)

Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern – falling victim to multi-level marketing schemes. At…

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Diane
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Georgia Michailidi and her short film ‘Diane Keaton’

Filmotomy got the opportunity to speak to the write, producer and director of the short film, Diane Keaton, part of the Showcase Selection at the…

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Diane
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Diane Keaton (Georgia Michailidi)

Diane Keaton is a film about the anti-romanticism of being a muse. Of the impracticality of being sung or written about and the muse lacking…

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