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Filmotomy Podcast 89: A spot of Golf with filmmaker Julia Bales

On the penultimate day of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, the Filmotomy Podcast goes on a round of Golf with the Julia Bales, the director of…

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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Evolution director Lucile Hadžihalilović

Paved with an unusual coating of serenity and mystery, Lucile Hadžihalilović‘s extraordinary Evolution is in a league of its own. I managed to grab the…

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A Silent Voice Naoko Yamada
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FemmeFilmFest Review: A Silent Voice (Naoko Yamada)

Behind A Silent Voice’s immaculate, gorgeous animation, is direction so strong, so careful, and so well constructed, that it asserts Naoko Yamada as one of…

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FemmeFilmFest Day Nine brings some light relief

The penultimate day of the Femme Filmmakers Festival is upon us. And with it we dip into a little bit of comedy – let’s face…

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Once Upon a Line
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FemmeFilmFest Animation: Once Upon a Line from Alicja Jasina

We take everyday sounds for granted, the little hums and taps, the sips and steps, how the outside world of traffic and people seeps into…

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Ailleurs
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FemmeFilmFest Animation: Ailleurs (Somewhere) from Mélody Boulissière

The metallic music and crisp sound design of Mélody Boulissière’s brilliant animated short, Ailleurs (Somewhere), are just two of the swaying components that make this…

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Revenge
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Revenge directed by Coralie Fargeat

Having tip-toed on the verge of being exploitative in its graphical depiction of sexual assault versus actually being empowering, the rape-and-revenge genre has been a…

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Coralie Fargeat
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Filmotomy Podcast 88: With Special Guest, Coralie Fargeat, Director of Revenge

Filmotomy’s third Podcast during the Femme Filmmakers Festival is a bloody special one. Pun intended. Robin Write is the lucky blighter joined not only by…

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Capernaum Nadine Labaki
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Capernaum, Nadine Labaki

With its award-winning streak and Oscar nominations Capernaum is a film that evidently a hit with critics and cinema goers alike with something bold to…

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Tigers Are Not Afraid Issa López
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #39: Watch Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid Now on Shudder

Many of the film lovers of the universe didn’t perhaps even know you were anticipating this wonder. After a terrific theatrical run, an ever increasing…

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Day Eight
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Kitty Faingold, director of the vivid animation, Body World

Body World, directed by Kitty Faingold, is an unforgettable venture through the inner workings of the human vessel. Imagery so permanently etched on our brains,…

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Day Eight
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Day Eight of the Femme Filmmakers Film Festival Might be the busiest yet

You want another podcast, you got it. More interviews, sure. Plenty of reviews coming your way too. Day Eight of FemmeFilmFest combines the feature genre…

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FemmeFilmFest Review: Short Film Thanksgiving directed by Van B. Nguyen

Van B. Nguyen’s Thanksgiving focuses on Ma (Elyse Dinh) while she prepares and hosts a holiday meal. And it is a beautiful, observant little film, about fitting in…

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Nancy
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Christina Choe’s Nancy (2018)

Film history has been impacted by a number of Anglo female characters with various mental disturbances and obsessions. Bette Davis in Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)….

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