Femme Filmmakers Festival 2022

That's right, Julia Ducournau. Certainly hints on one of the 55 films we shall be showcasing come the magical 10 ...

Roll up, roll up! The virtual red carpet is undergoing a serious cleanse as we hurtle towards the 7th year ...

Selecting films for an event like our Femme Filmmakers Festival requires a good eye for the craft as well as ...

A fourth film available on MUBI has been added to the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival lineup. Better late than never, ...

You know the song where it goes something like: Woke up this morning feeling fine, there's something special on my ...

One wonders how far you have to say, loneliness is a bitch and I'm numbed by the mundane office life, ...

In the world of Julia Ducourneau’s Titane, nobody survives a collision intact. Even when characters walk away from various wreckages ...

Laura Jean Hocking's short film, Hot Singles, is not exactly what you think it is when you look at the ...

You've probably already figured out we're running a little behind with the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival. It wouldn't be a ...

Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who ...

Back in 2020 (remember that momentous year?), ample praise was been put upon the governing bodies in Turkey by their ...

Heroines lures its audience into a false sense of security, a false sense of comedy perhaps. Anna Khaja’s Regina bursts ...

While feminism has grown over the decades, a newer concept being fully realized and defined is girl power. The adolescent ...

Knock knock. Who's there? Date. Date who? No, no, no, it's Day Three not Day Two. Some very vivid images ...

Now, I'm no teenage girl. Never have been. But stories on film about adolescent girls is a fairly common thread ...

Joanie Martel gives a beautiful and nuanced performance as Babz, a “lonely but endearing ex convict” in Zoe Pelchat’s Lune ...

Hello there Day Four, we have been expecting you. Two French-Canadian short films join the fray today as well as ...

From the opening second of this less-than-three-minute short film I recognised the music playing over the already eye-catching images as ...

In a dense forest, a young Cambodian girl coaxes a tarantula from the trees, its furry legs gingerly creeping along ...

As we approach the half time whistle, expect some bombardment of activity as we look to recap and promote further ...

“We are fools in love,” Jane Austen famously wrote in her novel Pride and Prejudice. This statement can easily be ...

There is an echo of the beginning and the end of things with the short films on display as we ...

Fanmi is a quietly devastating film, revolving around a recognisable mother-daughter relationship. As the daughter, Martine endures the trappings of ...

The tinkle of a piano and the tedium plastered across our heroine's face goes a long way to tell us ...

Dayna Reggero is a passionate and infectious soul. Her documentaries and projects outside of film show a genuine concern for ...

I'm fairly certain there are no films made by God or Bergman in today line-ups so don't be fooled by ...

Current, moving and relevant, Laundry Day gently opens a conversation which a lot of people are likely to want and/or ...

Well it's been a long week. Yet somehow it zoomed by. Which reminds me, do look out for the Femme ...

What an honour it was having Sophie B Jacques return to the Femme Filmmakers Festival after a few years since ...

Let me just say first of all without any bias that the short film submitted by Cansu Boğuşlu to this ...

It's my festival I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Not quite at the final ...

Many great films confound and delight, but barely convey their message in two hours. So how has director Jasmin Tenucci ...

It's fair to say that Hungarian born animator, Katalin Egely, is like part of the furniture at the Femme Filmmakers ...

Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival signifies the last leg of this amazing race. Those ten days have ...

Picking the brains of someone like filmmaker JC Farris is pretty much like opening a Pandora's box of creative infection ...

For an artist, whether you create on the shoulders of giants or in their shadow is all a matter of ...

Films from H264 Distribution (winner of the Special Contribution prize) were heavy in numbers but it was Sacrebleu Productions (last ...