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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Mustang

CLOSING DAY Friday 16th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Mustang   Femme Filmmaker: Deniz Gamze Ergüven The five sisters majestically depicted in Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Beyond the Lights

DAY NINE Thursday 15th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Beyond the Lights Femme Filmmaker: Gina Prince-Bythewood Beyond the Lights was the other half of the…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Eight Change of Plan

DAY EIGHT Wednesday 14th September 2016 (all-day event) NOTE: Due to streaming ending in the UK of the scheduled film It Felt Like Love directed…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: What Happened, Miss Simone?

DAY SIX Sunday 11th September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: What Happened, Miss Simone?   Femme Filmmaker: Liz Garbus The title What Happened, Miss Simone?…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn

DAY FIVE Saturday 10th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn   Femme Filmmaker: Liv Corfixen Danish film-maker Nicolas Winding…

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Decade Shadan We Need To Talk About Kevin
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Femme Filmmakers Festival: We Need To Talk About Kevin

DAY FOUR Friday 9th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: We Need To Talk About Kevin Femme Filmmaker: Lynne Ramsay Bringing Lionel Shriver’s novel to the…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Middle of Nowhere

DAY THREE Sunday 4th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Middle of Nowhere Femme Filmmaker: Ava DuVernay A hit at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Girlhood

DAY TWO Saturday 3rd September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: Girlhood   Femme Filmmaker: Céline Sciamma Bande de filles from French translates to group of…

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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Femme Filmmakers Festival: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

OPENING NIGHT Friday 2nd September 2016 (all-day event)   Film: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night   Femme Filmmaker: Ana Lily Amirpour In the open darkness…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival – Line-Up Announced

Following Netflix taking The Hurt Locker, City of God, and Una Noche from their streaming service recently, I was near-devastated that I could not include those movies directed by…

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100 More Films Made By Women – Part Ten

As we draw the curtains on the 100 More Films Made By Women, there sure is a certain sadness, I’m not going to lie. After…

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100 More Films Made By Women – Part Nine

Well, here we are then, the penultimate ten of yet more films made by women. And you know what, we can do 100 more. Before…

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100 More Films Made By Women – Part Eight

The despairs or romances of film-making are explored in this selection, as are deep, dark, damaging secrets, and dramatic shift of landscapes, actually and culturally,…

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100 More Films Made By Women – Part Seven

The next ten films provide yet another eclectic mix of both narrative and non-fiction films, with the women standing firm behind the camera and the…

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