Femme Filmmakers Festival 2018

Femme Filmmakers Festival is an online film festival showcasing the works directed by women. This year's event runs Friday 7th ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day One Program, Friday 7th September And so it begins. Finally. The months of searching and scouting ...

Episode 41 of the Filmotomy Podcast lands on the opening day of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2018. Ten days of ...

Originally published November 15, 2017 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us ...

Throughout history people have always been searching for a perfect place. Their own slice of Eden. However, the question should ...

Snow White Cologne is a visual animated poem created using acrylic paint on paper, it not like anything you have ...

The opening hustle bustle, the mellow sounds, of clustered little voices, we soon figure out is a school. And drops ...

On Dangerous Ground is one of the most unique and interesting classic film noirs. Here is a film that begins ...

You don't have to be an expert, let alone a film critic, to have your thoughts swing over to the ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Two Program, Saturday 8th September [in]visible (Rosser Goodman) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 201349041 ...

With the prestige of the Best Filmmaker Award winner for the Disability Film Challenge, Rosser Goodman has crafted a chunk ...

Wonderful, poignant concept and story, the short documentary Drawing On, by Tyro Heath, transports us to a creative perspective of ...

Originally published July 23rd 2018 Ekaj deals with hard material and stark revelations. One of its most powerful scenes comes ...

In Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman's second feature film, the idea of sexual identity is explored through the main character Frankie ...

I remember my wife so happened to be fed up of the coming-of-age movies when we sat down to watch ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Three Program, Sunday 9th September – – – – – Aria (Myrsini Aristidou) *** Film Short ...

Pea Pod is a hilarious short which is amazing in the fact that the film's cast and crew was made ...

"I wanted to make a short film /documentary about where our stories come from, the real ones, the ones that ...

Another special guest for Podcast 42. This time the female writer-director of the brilliant short film, Aria, in competition at ...

Justine (Garance Marillier ) is a first-year veterinary student. Her elder sister (Ella Rump) is studying the same course at ...

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

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Four Program, Monday 10th September Any queries about the streams, like availability, please contact us right ...

First published March 21st 2018 At some point in our lives, we will inevitably experience the loss of a loved ...

Here at Filmotomy, we have been aware of the short film, Mrs. Poucheau, by Amanda Lago, for a good few ...

Based upon the memoir of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) revisits the summer of ‘69 – ...

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

It was sheer coincidence, or perhaps a touch of fate, that the day we scheduled Fry Day in the Femme ...

When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September Listening Eyes (Julie Colly) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo ...

Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn't a criticism of the film ...

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

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving ...

With the Femme Filmmakers Festival taking to the deep end, now five days in, animation director Daniéla de Lange stopped ...

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 ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September Creswick (Natalie Erika James) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo ...

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, ...

How many accounts or perspectives have we had from a woman about the greatness of Trump's America? Sure, we've heard ...

What happens when the only person who makes you feel alive, is the very person you want dead? Andrea Arnold’s ...

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

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Seven Program, Thursday 13th September Somersault Pike (Kate Lefoe) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo ...

Transient light dances through the slits between wooden boards, and the sounds of voices dance with it. Those people are ...

[vimeo 227369889 w=640 h=360] Patricia Chica's as-yet-unreleased new short film, Morning After, is a sizzling array of sexual tension. Gorgeously ...

Kedi starts with Barış Manço's song. This Manço song, which expresses his site to his donkey friend, is actually a ...

Kati Egely's second short film in competition at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, Alegría / Euphoria, tickles the senses from the ...

At the great heights of a ten-metre diving platform, diver Mary Holgate, plays a familiar role - one which figuratively ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Eight Program, Friday 14th September Night (Joosje Duk) *** Film Short Official Selection *** – – ...

Many consider Walt Disney’s 1937 animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to be the first feature length animated film, ...

Night starts off as a seemingly innocent film, two girls (Rachel Hilson & Genelva Krin) are getting ready for a ...

The Breadwinner, from Irish director Nora Twomey (I love Song of the Sea), is a rich, vibrant tapestry following the ...

[vimeo 275360568 w=640 h=360] Two women (Juliet Hindmarsh & Jeni Bezuidenhout) go into the countryside together to have fun at ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson) *** Film Short Official Selection *** ...

Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It's an absolute delight to watch, ...

The Greatest Luxury, Kathryn Ferguson's vibrant, bold short docu-commercial, or this arty presentation of the fashion biz, or even a ...

A romantic comedy set in Beirut, Caramel is a decadent piece of foreign cinema that significantly grows on you as ...

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), or as the French like to call it, Bang Gang (une histoire d'amour moderne), ...

When Italian filmmaker, Alice Rohrwacher, came to the stage to collect the Grand Prize of the Jury, for Le Meraviglie ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September Short Film Prizes Online Announcement Online roll of honor prize ceremony ...

The short film prizes for the 3rd annual Femme Filmmakers Festival were announced earlier today. Hungarian Kati Egely and Cypriot ...

The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize --- WINNER --- Morgan Gruer - "for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, ...