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Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

Looking at the feature and short film line-up for day four of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival certainly represents a great batch of talents. Modern…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: A Nice Little Film About a Nice Little Death (Julia Mendoza Friedman)

One person’s clutter is another’s treasured memories. When we die, what do we leave behind for those we love and will they see them as…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears)

The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last 5 years or so. And even those of us not fully…

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Day Three of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

Diversity is a word we use a lot when we want to curate a selection of truly worthwhile films, both feature and short length. Films…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Review: The Piano (Jane Campion)

The first film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes (it shared the victory with Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine), New…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Radical Honesty (Bianca Poletti)

With sharp, popping visuals and a pair of witty leads, Radical Honesty is a compelling, spiky watch. It’s also director Bianca Poletti’s commentary on what…

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Day Two of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

I spy with my little eye something beginning with Academy Award winner for Best Director. Wowsers. Day two of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival features…

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Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)

I know we have become a much more refined bunch of film critic snobs over the years. But I take objection to some of the…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Astonishing Little Feet (Maegan Houang)

An astonishing feat! Astonishing Little Feet is a perfectly formed period short, set in a cramped New York apartment in the 1830s. Here, a young…

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Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)

Finally joining the prominent ranks of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, comes the live action feature film about the one and only Wonder Woman….

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Day One of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

Looks like we made it. The 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival has arrived. Better late than never. And a more low-key affair in 2023. But it…

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8th Femme Filmmakers Festival – Full Line-Up Revealed

There’s no excusing the much more low-key event this year as the Femme Filmmakers Festival enters it’s 8th year. This very writer is humble enough…

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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…

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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…

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