Two Eggs, Scrambled Melissa Dimetres
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Two Eggs, Scrambled (Melissa Dimetres)

The tinkle of a piano and the tedium plastered across our heroine’s face goes a long way to tell us something about the state of…

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Fanmi Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers Carmine Pierre-Dufour
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Fanmi (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour)

Fanmi is a quietly devastating film, revolving around a recognisable mother-daughter relationship. As the daughter, Martine endures the trappings of her own mind, and an…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy Shiva
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Welcome to Day Six of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival

There is an echo of the beginning and the end of things with the short films on display as we hurtle into Day Six of…

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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre // Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvát)

“We are fools in love,” Jane Austen famously wrote in her novel Pride and Prejudice. This statement can easily be confirmed by whoever has had…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy Alice
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Welcome to Day Five of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival

As we approach the half time whistle, expect some bombardment of activity as we look to recap and promote further what has gone so far….

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First They Killed My Father Filmotomy Angelina Jolie
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ // First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie)

In a dense forest, a young Cambodian girl coaxes a tarantula from the trees, its furry legs gingerly creeping along the trunk. Does she mean…

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Giulia Achenza The Mirror Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: The Mirror (Giulia Achenza)

From the opening second of this less-than-three-minute short film I recognised the music playing over the already eye-catching images as deftly similar to that of…

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Luna Moon Zoe Pelchat Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Lune / Moon (Zoé Pelchat)

Joanie Martel gives a beautiful and nuanced performance as Babz, a “lonely but endearing ex convict” in Zoe Pelchat’s Lune. When we meet Babz, she’s…

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All This Panic Filmotomy Femme Film Fest
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: All This Panic (Jenny Gage)

Now, I’m no teenage girl. Never have been. But stories on film about adolescent girls is a fairly common thread. And a soaring trend, the…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy Aida
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Welcome to Day Three of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival

Knock knock. Who’s there? Date. Date who? No, no, no, it’s Day Three not Day Two. Some very vivid images for your eyes today covering…

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Moxie Amy Poehler Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Moxie (Amy Poehler)

While feminism has grown over the decades, a newer concept being fully realized and defined is girl power. The adolescent experience for girls can be…

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FemmeFilmFest7 Heroines Katia Badalian Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Heroines (Katia Badalian)

Heroines lures its audience into a false sense of security, a false sense of comedy perhaps. Anna Khaja’s Regina bursts to life in the first…

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Stray Elizabeth Lo Femme Filmmakers Festival Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Stray (Elizabeth Lo)

Back in 2020 (remember that momentous year?), ample praise was been put upon the governing bodies in Turkey by their own residents. The country’s largest…

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Chute Strangers Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Chute // Strangers (Nora Longatti)

Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who the girl is and what…

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