Welcome to Day Three of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Knock knock. Who’s there? Date. Date who? No, no, no, it’s Day Three not Day Two. Some very vivid images for your eyes today covering…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Moxie (Amy Poehler)
While feminism has grown over the decades, a newer concept being fully realized and defined is girl power. The adolescent experience for girls can be…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Heroines (Katia Badalian)
Heroines lures its audience into a false sense of security, a false sense of comedy perhaps. Anna Khaja’s Regina bursts to life in the first…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Stray (Elizabeth Lo)
Back in 2020 (remember that momentous year?), ample praise was been put upon the governing bodies in Turkey by their own residents. The country’s largest…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Chute // Strangers (Nora Longatti)
Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who the girl is and what…
Welcome to Day Two of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
You’ve probably already figured out we’re running a little behind with the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival. It wouldn’t be a film festival without some chaos…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: Laura Jean Hocking Talks to Filmotomy About Her Short Film ‘Hot Singles’
Laura Jean Hocking‘s short film, Hot Singles, is not exactly what you think it is when you look at the title. But then, it kind…
FemmeFilmFest 7 Review: Titane // Titanium (Julia Ducournau)
In the world of Julia Ducourneau’s Titane, nobody survives a collision intact. Even when characters walk away from various wreckages with their lives, writer-director Ducourneau…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: J’ai Le Cafard // Bint Werdan (Maysaa Almumin)
One wonders how far you have to say, loneliness is a bitch and I’m numbed by the mundane office life, before your eventual companionship with…
Welcome to Day One of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
You know the song where it goes something like: Woke up this morning feeling fine, there’s something special on my mind? And no, I didn’t…
Exclusive Update: Paypal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ Added to the Femme Film Fest Slate
A fourth film available on MUBI has been added to the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival lineup. Better late than never, this exclusive opportunity to see…
TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
“What follows is an act of female imagination” is the title card that precedes Sarah Polley’s Women Talking — a film derived from a novel…
TIFF ‘22 Review Dispatch #3: The Telluride Films – ‘Good Night Oppy’, ‘Empire of Light’, ‘Women Talking’
In our last set of reviews we looked at some of the most notable Venice premieres that also played TIFF, so today let’s do the…
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #2: The Venice Films – ‘The Whale’, ‘The Son’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
When the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was founded in 1976, it was originally called The Festival of Festivals, and the idea behind the fest…
