Tag: Femme Filmmakers Festival
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Whole (Suchana Saha)
Whole is a minute long animation which manages to say what it needs to within a restricted runtime. The beauty and simplicity of Whole is…
FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Awake (Katherine DuBois)
What does it look like to grieve? That is what Katherine DuBois explores in her short film, Awake. Through the under-15 minute journey, we see an…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2021 – Day One
With submissions in, details prepared and the wait over, it’s time to officially begin the 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival! We have an abundance of phenomenal…
Say Hello to the Competition Jury of the 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival
I’ve heard folk say that watching films is easy. And rating them, well, that’s the cinemagoers favourite pastime these days. So for this specially selected…
Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced for the 2021 Femme Filmmakers Festival
After hours and hours of watching, re-watching, head-scratching, laughter, wonder, sorrow – all manner of emotions – we have finally arrived a the 6th Femme…
6th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed
It seems to be earlier and earlier each and every year that we embark on the Femme Filmmakers Festival in the ultimate preparation for the…
The Sorrowful Beauty of Vagabond by the Great Agnès Varda
The dearly departed Agnès Varda, is not dead at all. We can go back and cherry pick from her illustrious filmography any time we please….
The Short Films of Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020 you can still watch
The whole world seem virtual now. How do we watch movies together? Have we forgotten? The Femme Filmmakers Festival began on Friday 28th August and…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Kelsie Moore, director of The Get, Shelter in Place and The Gray Area
When the short films were whittled down to the final 20 for the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, it was hard to…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Ghazaal (Ragini Bhasin)
The story of a young girl in a refugee camp struggling with her period, Ghazaal offers a powerful depiction of the lack of basic dignity…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
Film history classes may pound the French New Wave into the heads of cinema students everywhere, but not much is said about the Czech New…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: The Assistant (Kitty Green)
In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to pack a whole lot of…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma)
The low rumble of an audience is accompanied by the crash of water, where a young woman is painstakingly poised, unreachable. Her young admirer waits…
Haolu Wang, Sophie B Jacques, Nora Kirkpatrick Conquer FemmeFilmFest20 as Roll of Honour announced
Sunday 6th September 2020. The 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival comes to a close later this evening. Earlier, the Roll of Honour was announced for the…
