Femme Filmmakers Festival 2024

Filmotomy's 9th annual Femme Filmmakers Festival is really not far away now. The online event runs again between 20th - ...

Another superb array of short film submissions (thank you Film Freeway) have made the line-up process a completely joyful breeze ...

Program time! The countdown is over! It's today! Oh my. The 9th edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival has hurtled ...

Friday 20 September The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) feature film library On general release today, 20th September. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola) feature ...

Films about mental health issues can be difficult to plot successfully. Either they come off as too easily resolved, trivializing ...

This beautiful, quietly nostalgic film consisting of family home movies and photos belies the raw pain of a life of ...

Gliding across the pristine pink carpet Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) readies herself for the hospital. The young mother, already a ...

I am joined by Morgan Roberts to talk about the films of Sofia Coppola. This was on the back of ...

The work and life of photographer Winston Vargas is the subject of this film, but it is actually more about ...

Saturday 21 September In Bed with Victoria (Justine Triet) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the ...

This is a darkly funny film about when relationships reach a point where they might not survive due to a ...

Of all the films that I have seen so far at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, none have resonated more with ...

Revisiting In Bed with Victoria (2016) following Justine Triet’s 2024 Academy Award win for best original screenplay feels apt. Triet’s ...

Sunday 22 September Laggies (Lynn Shelton) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availabilities based ...

With her first (and only) fully scripted feature length film, director Lynn Shelton took audiences on a journey which captures ...

In dreams, two deer – a stag and a doe – forage for grass in a snow-covered forest and drink ...

A family has gathered around their son as he prepares to leave home for college. Little sis is angling for ...

Alice Rohrwacher’s sublime La Chimera is just now (in September 2024) finishing up an incredible six month run at the ...

When you first watch the short film Hands, made by Chicago-based film student, Lara Haciosmanoglu, it is fairly easy to ...

The moment the opening voice-over drifts into our ears, with the visuals of art materials, a combination of prickly backstories ...

Monday 23 September Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming ...

In the history of unusual subjects that create romantic couples, the story of this real-life volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice ...

At one point in this film the words “estamos a tiempo” appear, which roughly translate to “in due time.” Water ...

Tuesday 24 September Tótem (Lila Aviles) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availabilities based ...

What a pleasure it is to have super-talented animator Katalin Egely back at the Femme Filmmakers Festival. This marks her ...

Wednesday 25 September The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa al-Mansour) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming ...

Operation Ganga was an evacuation of medical students and other citizens of India from Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022 ...

Abbey is competing with Jesus for the heart of her mother, at least she thinks she is. This hilarious film ...

Haifaa al-Mansour is one of the most significant figures in cinema in Saudi Arabia. She is praised and vilified for ...

While many filmmakers choose to romanticize childhood in their work, it takes an adept hand to craft a story that ...

Thursday 26 September On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming ...

In 2018, a documentary premiered at the Cannes Film Festival titled Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché. Director ...

What drives people to find success in their careers can be traced to many factors. Sometimes it’s as simple as ...

One pleasure of watching and reviewing the work of burgeoning female filmmakers is the juxtaposition you feel in how sexual ...

Meet Nadia Murad, a Sinjar refugee, who has more scars than we can imagine during a lifetime - let alone ...

Friday 27 September Polisse (Maïwenn) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availability based on ...

Ninnoc's pensive, sombre stare might be a burdened distraction from those big blue beautiful eyes. The echoes of children in ...

In Kimmy Gatewood's masterful short film Control, the protagonist's immaculate attention to detail is a truly admirable strength as well ...

Once you understand the tone of Stephanie Kaznocha's Confessions, you'll soon realize how much fun a pair of old ladies ...

Saturday 28 September Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming ...

Wherever we live in this world, or wherever we have been, seldom few of us can share our experiences of ...

First loves can be sweet and fleeting, or intense and tumultuous. Goodbye First Love, the 2011 third feature from director ...

The opening seconds of Kate Novack's terrific visual case study, Hysterical Girl, sifts your psyche through several potential discourses of ...

Sunday 29 September Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availability ...

The Cannes Film Festival get Rosetta so the Femme Filmmakers Festival get Aria. The comparisons to the Dardennes' Palme d'Or ...

What a journey this is. Katalin Egely, an extremely well-travelled Hungarian filmmaker, incorporates her extensive prowess with animation story-telling to ...

The Western is a genre that has been reinvented time and time again. Many creatives have interpolated the classic American ...

One of the most influential figures of the film from the Soviet Union is a woman nearly forgotten to film ...

(Films Clockwise: Aquí y Allá , Brown Brit, Confessions, Mothers & Monsters, Cenizas de Agua/Water Ashes and Heat Spell) Filmotomy ...

Robin Write is joined by Hannah Taylor for an exclusive chat with writer-director Stephanie Kaznocha. Her short film Confessions was ...

Hannah Taylor and Robin Write speak to prize-winning filmmaker Marie-Pier Dupuis on the success of her debut short film Heat ...

Hannah Taylor and Robin Write got to speak with Isabella Breton, fresh from her Silver Sword win at the 9th ...

Heat Spell, written and directed with such an assured poise by Marie-Pier Dupuis, is yet another flourishing example of the ...

Writer, director and editor of Makeover Movie (2022), Sue Ding discusses her pop-culture essay film. Makeover Movie explores the makeover ...

Autumn in its full glory is celebrated to the fullest in Petite Maman. It is a charming, delightful film from ...

British tourists have always had a reputation. Since the days of Byron, Shelley and Keats in Geneva and Italy and ...