Tag: directed by women

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 54 days to…

The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 60 days to…

Firstly, thank you to Melanie Belmonte, the Femme Filmmakers Festival Delegate, who was a huge part of selecting these films. And boy, was it tough….

A day before the exciting line-up for the 2019 Femme Filmmakers Festival (it’s quite the list I can tell you), we can now reveal the…

I wonder, have you ever wanted to do jury service? Well, there is no courtroom per se here. This opportunity is for Filmotomy’s 4th annual…

There are times where you attend film festivals and enter a screening totally unprepared for the film that you end up watching. Only to stumble…

This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival saw 43% of the films that made up the festival’s program being directed by a female filmmaker. While not every…

I shall start this review off with a confession, I have never really been a fan of the rom-com genre. Often I find these films…

Greta Bellamacina may be the British answer to Greta Gerwig. There are certainly very many similarities between Bellmacina’s debut feature Hurt by Paradise and the…

On paper, Josephine Mackerras’ Alice sounds like a film we’ve all seen before. The story of a mild-mannered housewife/mother who becomes a high-end escort in…

The thing that comes back to me as I think about a film like Away from Her is the snow. Snow feels like it’s flooding…

Persepolis redefines what a war movie, a coming-of-age drama, an animated picture can look like. It seems only fitting that a film about identity, and…

Molly and Amy (fantastic Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever) are about to graduate from high school. The pair have spent their school years focusing on…

PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU / PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Céline SCIAMMA — FRANCE — 120 minutes IN A NUTSHELL Set…