Tag: directed by women
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 filmography any time we please….
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 on Friday 28th August and…
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 Festival, it was hard to…
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 lack of basic dignity…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
Film history classes may pound the French New Wave into the heads of cinema students everywhere, but not much is said about the Czech New…
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, unreachable. Her young admirer waits…
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 Honour was announced for the…
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 claimed her status as one…
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 Competition Selection. Home (Anita Bruvere)…
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 acting whilst at school in…
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 two and the projection of…
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 Filmmakers Festival was Foyer, written…
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 techniques of animated short films….
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)
Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern – falling victim to multi-level marketing schemes. At…
