Tag: directed by women
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
Teenage girls are full of contradictions. Shallow and existential, audacious and anxious, convinced of their own importance and their own invisibility simultaneously, and capable of…
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Bird of Paradise (Mareike Engelhardt)
The short film Bird of Paradise (Nos Lions) effectively builds a sense of danger but gets lost in its own sense of mystery. The story…
FemmeFilmFest21Review: The Black Veil (A.J. Al-Thani)
A.J. Al-Thani’s The Black Veil is an astonishing and empowering short film which the world needs now more than ever. With the on-going political troubles…
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Whole (Suchana Saha)
Whole is a minute long animation which manages to say what it needs to within a restricted runtime. The beauty and simplicity of Whole is…
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Awake (Katherine DuBois)
What does it look like to grieve? That is what Katherine DuBois explores in her short film, Awake. Through the under-15 minute journey, we see an…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2021 – Day One
With submissions in, details prepared and the wait over, it’s time to officially begin the 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival! We have an abundance of phenomenal…
Festival de Cannes Review: Clara Sola (Nathalie Álvarez Mesén)
Clara Sola is the debut feature of the Costa Rican-Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén. It was screened in the Quinzaine de Réalisateur section and is…
Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced for the 2021 Femme Filmmakers Festival
After hours and hours of watching, re-watching, head-scratching, laughter, wonder, sorrow – all manner of emotions – we have finally arrived a the 6th Femme…
Festival de Cannes Review: Cow (Andrea Arnold)
This may be a personal issue, but there’s something about Andrea Arnold‘s brand of wallowing realism that never quite brings a point to its misery….
1988 in Film: Jane B by Agnes V
Actress Jane Birkin exists in multitudes. From Rivettian chess piece in Love on the Ground and La Belle Noiseuse to unsteady androgynous lover in La…
6th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed
It seems to be earlier and earlier each and every year that we embark on the Femme Filmmakers Festival in the ultimate preparation for the…
Film Review: Saint Maud
With agony comes ecstasy, and with holiness comes a darkness. Rose Glass’s Saint Maud is the next big thing in a wave of so-called elevated…
How Promising Young Woman’s Ending is Enraging at Best and Problematic at Worse
This piece contains spoilers of Promising Young Woman, especially the ending. Please, if you have not watched the movie, stop reading this, go watch…
Film Review: Happiest Season (2020)
The Christmas rom-com is a subgenre that’s blended together long enough. With seemingly never-ending Hallmark-centric lists like Christmas movie posters with white heterosexual couples wearing…
