Tag: Femme Film Fest 2018

At the great heights of a ten-metre diving platform, diver Mary Holgate, plays a familiar role – one which figuratively we are all aware. Knowing…

Kati Egely’s second short film in competition at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, Alegría / Euphoria, tickles the senses from the outset. An owl hoots, the foot-tapping…

Kedi starts with Barış Manço’s song. This Manço song, which expresses his site to his donkey friend, is actually a symbol of the deterioration of relations…

[vimeo 227369889 w=640 h=360] Patricia Chica’s as-yet-unreleased new short film, Morning After, is a sizzling array of sexual tension. Gorgeously shot from the opening frames,…

Transient light dances through the slits between wooden boards, and the sounds of voices dance with it. Those people are up there in their revelry…

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Seven Program, Thursday 13th September Somersault Pike (Kate Lefoe) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 275360779 w=640 h=360] – –…

Writer-director, Rebecca Thomas, brought more than a handful of her own background to Electrick Children. Her 2012 feature, an eclectic surprise I might add, was…

What happens when the only person who makes you feel alive, is the very person you want dead? Andrea Arnold’s first feature-length film is uncomfortably…

How many accounts or perspectives have we had from a woman about the greatness of Trump’s America? Sure, we’ve heard all the squawking – I…

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, Sam, who has returned to…

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September Creswick (Natalie Erika James) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 265695677 w=640 h=360] – –…

There’s a beautiful opening shot in Julie Colly’s award-winning, Si Tu T’imagines (Listening Eyes), of a girl’s hand holding an orange aloft in the daytime…

With the Femme Filmmakers Festival taking to the deep end, now five days in, animation director Daniéla de Lange stopped by, to answer some of our…

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…