Tag: Femme Filmmakers Festival
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Wake Up (Olivia Wilde)
Previously working on Booksmart, which marked her directorial debut and received Golden Globes and Bafta nominations in 2019, Olivia Wilde claimed her status as one…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller
Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never fails to impress no matter…
FemeFilmFest20 Review Round-up: Home, Girl in the Hallway, Find Me Mother, The Gray Area
Margot Douglas joins the Femme Filmmakers Festival fray to chime on four of the short films featured in this year’s Competition Selection. Home (Anita Bruvere)…
Filmotomy Podcast 102: Armita Keyani brings Welcome Home to FemmeFilmFest20
The second podcast of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival sees Robin Write host, and he is joined by festival jury member Ellen Cheshire. Our special…
FemmeFilmFest20: Exploring Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair
Mira Nair was born in Orissa, a remote state in North East India. And although she had become interested in acting whilst at school in…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Little Woods (Nia DaCosta)
Though called Crossing the Line in the UK, Little Woods is the debut film from Nia DaCosta. Released two years ago, the drama sees Tessa…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Welcome Home (Armita Keyani)
Welcome Home is a funny, awkward, and simple look at different cultures and religions along with the combination of the two and the projection of…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Concealer creator Kristine Gerolaga
Kristine Gerolaga is the writer and director of Concealer, one of many great short films featuring at the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival. An unexpected take…
FemmeFilmFest20 interview: the visionary director behind Foyer, Sophie B Jacques
One of the most highly acclaimed short films to play as part of the Competition Selection at this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival was Foyer, written…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Anita Bruvere the director of the animated short film ‘Home’
Every year at the Femme Filmmakers Festival we are dazzled by the array of talent that shines through the endless techniques of animated short films….
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Just Me and You (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers)
Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi) is a short, Canadian film directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. It takes us on a poignant journey between…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)
Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern – falling victim to multi-level marketing schemes. At…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…
The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…
