Tag: directed by women
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review – The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa al-Mansour)
Haifaa al-Mansour is one of the most significant figures in cinema in Saudi Arabia. She is praised and vilified for her films which encourage discussion…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Bad Indian: The Villain Origin Story (Abbey Monteiro)
Abbey is competing with Jesus for the heart of her mother, at least she thinks she is. This hilarious film about a second-generation immigrant child…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Bunker Healers Refuge (Swati Nilesh Ghorpade)
Operation Ganga was an evacuation of medical students and other citizens of India from Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. Over 18,000 students were assisted…
Day Six of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Wednesday 25 September The Perfect Candidate (Haifaa al-Mansour) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availabilities based on your country….
Animation Legend Katalin Egely Talks To Us For The 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
What a pleasure it is to have super-talented animator Katalin Egely back at the Femme Filmmakers Festival. This marks her 4th time at the event,…
Day Five of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Tuesday 24 September Tótem (Lila Aviles) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availabilities based on your country. Respire (Mélanie…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Water Ashes (Katalin Egely)
At one point in this film the words “estamos a tiempo” appear, which roughly translate to “in due time.” Water Ashes is very much about…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Fire Of Love (Sara Dosa)
In the history of unusual subjects that create romantic couples, the story of this real-life volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, is towards the top…
Day Four of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Monday 23 September Fire of Love (Sara Dosa) feature film library Head over to JustWatch to see all the streaming availabilities based on your country….
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Dicks That I Like (Johanna Gustin)
The moment the opening voice-over drifts into our ears, with the visuals of art materials, a combination of prickly backstories and a kind of creative…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Hands (Lara Haciosmanoglu)
When you first watch the short film Hands, made by Chicago-based film student, Lara Haciosmanoglu, it is fairly easy to pick at the bones of…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Bringing Out the Dead – the imperfect illusions of La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
Alice Rohrwacher’s sublime La Chimera is just now (in September 2024) finishing up an incredible six month run at the IFC Center in New York…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Navin Frame (Swati Nilesh Ghorpade)
A family has gathered around their son as he prepares to leave home for college. Little sis is angling for him to leave her his…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
In dreams, two deer – a stag and a doe – forage for grass in a snow-covered forest and drink from a stream. In reality,…
