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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Pea Pod

Pea Pod is a hilarious short which is amazing in the fact that the film’s cast and crew was made up of 100% women with…

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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 Review: Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats

In Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman’s second feature film, the idea of sexual identity is explored through the main character Frankie (played by Harris Dickinson). Frankie…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Ekaj

Originally published July 23rd 2018 Ekaj deals with hard material and stark revelations. One of its most powerful scenes comes towards the movie’s close, as…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Documentary Director Tyro Heath Shares her Creativity with Drawing On

Wonderful, poignant concept and story, the short documentary Drawing On, by Tyro Heath, transports us to a creative perspective of grief. A woman mourns the…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: [in]visible – director Rosser Goodman speaks to Filmotomy

With the prestige of the Best Filmmaker Award winner for the Disability Film Challenge, Rosser Goodman has crafted a chunk of mystery with her short…

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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: Ninnoc – Niki Padidar

The opening hustle bustle, the mellow sounds, of clustered little voices, we soon figure out is a school. And drops of slight sound thuds, not…

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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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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Kristen Stewart’s Come Swim

Originally published November 15, 2017 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. — Norman…

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