Tag: directed by women
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Troubled Water (Elena Wiener)
Trübes Wasser (Troubled Water), is a short film written, directed, and animated by Elena Wiener. Even from the first frame, the imagery used is striking:…
FemmeFilmFest20 Day One Showcase: Caz Armstrong and that Darn Clawford
Day One of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday afternoon as our opening film hit the internet. Anticipation was…
Film Review: Summerland (2020)
Without using therm old-fashioned too liberally, we might well be on familiar ground with the release of Summerland. Immediately identifiable for those of us that…
Film Review: She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
You are going to die tomorrow. There is no question, but no rationalizing it either, just an unwavering certainty that tomorrow’s sunrise will be your…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020: Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced
I hope this is the moment you have all been waiting for, as we finally get to announce the 59 films – short and feature…
Film Review: First Cow (2020)
Continuing to partner with interesting smaller filmmakers giving much larger audiences the chance to hear these unique voices, Kelly Reichardt has impressed many with features…
Meet the Jury of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival
With just over six weeks remaining before the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicks off, now is a very good time to announce our short film…
Festival de Cannes: Portrait of Lady on Fire (2019)
I was certainly not a stranger to Céline Sciamma’s work after watching the captivating Girlhood (Bande des Filles). And as such her latest film Portrait of a…
5th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed
As the COVID-19 era brings greater emphasis on aligning film festivals with the online platform, here at Filmotomy we are now in the early stages…
Festival de Cannes Review: Red Road (2006)
Red Road won the Jury Award at Cannes in 2006. Directed by Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey), this is a tense and paranoid psychological…
Film Review: How to Build a Girl (2019)
Caitlin Moran is a somewhat controversial media figure and is considered a leading voice in (white) feminism via her Times columns and her Twitter feed….
Review: System Crasher
Child actress, now eleven years old, Helena Zengel, has made the natural progression to sensation look like a breeze. Within seconds of watching her play…
Film Review: Little Joe
This reviewer is a particular fan of Lourdes, possibly the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner’s finest work in a steadily prospering career. Her English language debut…
Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019)
In the opening of The Souvenir, we are gifted some black and white footage of Sunderland, a northern English city, as Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne…
