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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Under the Skin (Carine Adler)

Carine Adler’s 1997 drama, Under the Skin, stars Samantha Morton in her debut role as Iris Kelly. A young, curious woman, who dives headfirst into…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September Listening Eyes (Julie Colly) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 270210472 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)

When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to live in a Zambian witch…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Exclusive Q&A with Fry Day director Laura Moss

It was sheer coincidence, or perhaps a touch of fate, that the day we scheduled Fry Day in the Femme Filmmakers Festival, director Laura Moss…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laura Moss’ Fry Day

It is the night of Ted Bundy’s execution, and an entrepreneurial teenager decides to make a quick buck selling Polaroids of those attending. These are…

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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: Mrs. Poucheau director Amanda Lago talks to Filmotomy

Here at Filmotomy, we have been aware of the short film, Mrs. Poucheau, by Amanda Lago, for a good few months. We saw it back…

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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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