Tag: female filmmakers

What an honour it was having Sophie B Jacques return to the Femme Filmmakers Festival after a few years since the brilliant Foyer, which won…

Well it’s been a long week. Yet somehow it zoomed by. Which reminds me, do look out for the Femme Filmmakers Festival Director Roundtable we…

Current, moving and relevant, Laundry Day gently opens a conversation which a lot of people are likely to want and/or need to have in our…

I’m fairly certain there are no films made by God or Bergman in today line-ups so don’t be fooled by the feature film titles on…

Dayna Reggero is a passionate and infectious soul. Her documentaries and projects outside of film show a genuine concern for the human beings and the…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…