Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020

Vagabond

The Sorrowful Beauty of Vagabond by the Great Agnès Varda

The dearly departed Agnès Varda, is not dead at all. We can go back and cherry pick from her illustrious ...

The Short Films of Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020 you can still watch

The whole world seem virtual now. How do we watch movies together? Have we forgotten? The Femme Filmmakers Festival began ...
Kelsie Moore

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 ...
Ghazaal

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 Assistant

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: The Assistant (Kitty Green)

In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to ...
Water Lilies

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma)

The low rumble of an audience is accompanied by the crash of water, where a young woman is painstakingly poised, ...

Haolu Wang, Sophie B Jacques, Nora Kirkpatrick Conquer FemmeFilmFest20 as Roll of Honour announced

Sunday 6th September 2020. The 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival comes to a close later this evening. Earlier, the Roll of ...
Wake Up

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 ...
Long Time Listener

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 ...

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 ...
Armita Keyani

Filmotomy Podcast 102: Armita Keyani brings Welcome Home to FemmeFilmFest20

The second podcast of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival sees Robin Write host, and he is joined by festival jury ...
Salaam Bombay

FemmeFilmFest20: Exploring Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair

Mira Nair was born in Orissa, a remote state in North East India. And although she had become interested in ...
Little Woods

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Little Woods (Nia DaCosta)

Though called Crossing the Line in the UK, Little Woods is the debut film from Nia DaCosta. Released two years ...
Welcome Home

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 ...
Kristine Gerolaga

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Concealer creator Kristine Gerolaga

Kristine Gerolaga is the writer and director of Concealer, one of many great short films featuring at the 5th Femme ...
Sophie B Jacques

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 ...
Anita Bruvere

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 ...
Just Me and You

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 ...
Concealer

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)

Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern - falling victim ...
Plyushchikha

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 ...
Orlando

The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)

A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, ...
Girl in the Hallway

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Girl in the Hallway director Valerie Barnhart blows our mind with her first Animation

Valerie Barnhart’s Girl in the Hallway may have a short runtime, but the film is brimming with a stunning artistic ...
Daphne Lazou

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Daphne Lazou, Director of Photography on ‘Diane Keaton’

Set entirely in one apartment, Georgia Michailidi's short film 'Diane Keaton' is shot by Daphne Lazou, the film's Director of ...
Diane

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 ...
Marie Antoinette

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

Growing up in the shadow of a father who crafted some of the most influential and talked about films of ...
The Pregnant Ground

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Haolu Wang’s The Pregnant Ground

Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, ...
Margarita Siotou

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Diane Keaton’ lead actress Margarita Siotou

Blessed with an array of interview opportunities for Georgia Michailidi's short film 'Diane Keaton' for the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, ...
Diane

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 ...
Old Enough

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Old Enough (Marisa Silver)

Our teenage years are essentially made up of mimicry. We leave the nest of our parents, flocking together, or perhaps ...
Meagan Adele Lopez

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Meagan Adele Lopez on that ‘Raging Cult’

I honestly didn't expect to rekindle a teenage crush or crave expensive coffee from Montmartre when I sat down to ...
Haolu Wang

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘The Pregnant Ground’ director Haolu Wang

One of 20 short films in the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival is The Pregnant Ground from ...
Shelter in Place

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Shelter in Place (Kelsie Moore)

Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows ...
Luana Di Pasquale

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Keep Mum’ director Luana Di Pasquale

What do you know about Luana Di Pasquale? Well, she is, handily for the involvement with the 5th Femme Filmmakers ...
But I'm a Cheerleader

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)

20 years ago, the world looked very different, especially in regard to LGBTQ+ rights. 11 months before But I’m a ...
Suchana Saha

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Find me Mother’ animation filmmaker Suchana Saha

We are delighted to have filmmaker Suchana Saha talk to us about not just one but two films in the ...
Keep Mum

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Luana Di Pasquale’s ‘Keep Mum’

A word of caution. Keep Mum will buzz around in your head long after its final scene. It is a ...
Ella Greenwood

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Faulty Roots’ creator Ella Greenwood

Ella Greenwood is the writer, actor, director of the short film Faulty Roots which is due to become a feature ...
Faulty Roots

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: ‘Faulty Roots’ from Ella Greenwood

Young people with serious illnesses have an especially hard cross to bear. Fear of being stigmatized socially, frustration with potentially ...
Sahera Khan

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Sahera Khan tackles key issues with ‘Faith’

One of the 20 films featuring in the Competition Selection at this year's Femme Filmmakers Festival is Sahera Khan's short ...
The Bigamist

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)

Love and relationships are often considered to be sacred and private. When one betrays the social contract which is a ...

FemmeFilmFest20 Day Three Showcase: ‘In a Hole’ with the charming Sarah Louise Dean

I've known Sarah Louise Dean for some time in a virtual capacity. Speaking to her about In a Hole, which ...
Ayanna Dozier softer

FemmeFilmFest20 Day Three Showcase: ‘Softer’ Director Ayanna Dozier

One of the most unusual (that's a compliment) offerings at this year's Femme Filmmakers Festival is Softer. Created by Ayanna ...
A New Leaf

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: A New Leaf (Elaine May)

It's always special when a filmmaker is able to create a world that shows off their unique sense of humour ...
Uproot

Filmotomy Podcast 101: FemmeFilmFest20 with Caz Armstrong and Julia Bales

The first of two Filmotomy Podcasts during the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festivals sees host Robin Write joined by two of ...
gretl claggett

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Filmmaker Gretl Claggett and her short film Stormchaser

Gretl Clagget’s STORMCHASER started as a poem. And so fitting that it opens with our heroine Bonnie Blue remembering her ...
Fucking Down

FemmeFilmFest20 Day Two Showcase: director Amanda Lago returns with Fatal Tiger’s ‘Fucking Down’ video

Two year's ago we spoke to Spanish director, Amanda Lago, about her short film, Mrs. Poucheau, as part of the ...
Elena Wiener Troubled Water

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Troubled Water director Elena Wiener on Neurodermatitis and Maya Deren

On Day One of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, the second of the 20 Competition Selections films was seen by ...
El Mago Georges

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: El Mago Georges maestro Katalin Egely

At the 2018 Femme Filmmakers Festival, a flourishing filmmaker, Katalin Egely, brought two short animations to the online event. Alegría ...
No Home Movie

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

A home movie calls to mind childhood memory. They're time capsules, going back to an age before we know the ...
Lynn Shelton

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Your Sister’s Sister (Lynn Shelton)

Before we talk about the film, it is important we talk about the filmmaker. Lynn Shelton was a dynamic, humanist, ...
Troubled Water

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Troubled Water (Elena Wiener)

Trübes Wasser (Troubled Water), is a short film written, directed, and animated by Elena Wiener. Even from the first frame, ...
Clawford

FemmeFilmFest20 Day One Showcase: Caz Armstrong and that Darn Clawford

Day One of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday afternoon as our opening film ...
Preview

Femme Film Fest: Watch the Preview Trailer with Two Weeks to Go

With the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival just two weeks away, here is the preview trailer for the 2020 event. Including ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020: Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced

I hope this is the moment you have all been waiting for, as we finally get to announce the 59 ...

Meet the Jury of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival

With just over six weeks remaining before the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicks off, now is a very good time ...

5th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed

As the COVID-19 era brings greater emphasis on aligning film festivals with the online platform, here at Filmotomy we are ...

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