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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Awakenings (Penny Marshall)

Based upon the memoir of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) revisits the summer of ‘69 – when Sacks explored ways in which…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Mrs. Poucheau

First published March 21st 2018 At some point in our lives, we will inevitably experience the loss of a loved one. It’s a sad and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Four Program, Monday 10th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Four Program, Monday 10th September Any queries about the streams, like availability, please contact us right away. Fry Day (Laura Moss)…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Monsoon Wedding – Mira Nair

Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding blends wonderful Indian tradition into a modern story of family, love, and the test of values. It introduces cultural backgrounds into…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Julia Ducournau's Raw

Justine (Garance Marillier ) is a first-year veterinary student. Her elder sister (Ella Rump) is studying the same course at the university. Justine was raised…

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Filmotomy Podcast Episode 42: Special Guest – Aria Director Myrsini Aristidou

Another special guest for Podcast 42. This time the female writer-director of the brilliant short film, Aria, in competition at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, Myrsini…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Lisa E Williams Talks the Collaboration Between Music and Filmmaking

“I wanted to make a short film /documentary about where our stories come from, the real ones, the ones that make us who we are…”…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Three Program, Sunday 9th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Three Program, Sunday 9th September – – – – – Aria (Myrsini Aristidou) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 247459218…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Houda Benyamina’s Divines

I remember my wife so happened to be fed up of the coming-of-age movies when we sat down to watch this one. Or else she…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Two Program, Saturday 8th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Two Program, Saturday 8th September [in]visible (Rosser Goodman) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 201349041 w=640 h=360] – – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Attenberg – Athina Rachel Tsangari

You don’t have to be an expert, let alone a film critic, to have your thoughts swing over to the maniacal, mesmeric Dogtooth, when watching Athina Rachel…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino, Nicholas Ray

On Dangerous Ground is one of the most unique and interesting classic film noirs. Here is a film that begins in hard-boiled city streets, following…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Snow White Cologne – Amanda Eliasson

Snow White Cologne is a visual animated poem created using acrylic paint on paper, it not like anything you have ever seen before. Beautiful and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Land Without Evil – Kati Egely

Throughout history people have always been searching for a perfect place. Their own slice of Eden. However, the question should be whether we can find…

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