Tag: Femme Filmmakers Festival
Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
Looking at the feature and short film line-up for day four of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival certainly represents a great batch of talents. Modern…
Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: A Nice Little Film About a Nice Little Death (Julia Mendoza Friedman)
One person’s clutter is another’s treasured memories. When we die, what do we leave behind for those we love and will they see them as…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears)
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last 5 years or so. And even those of us not fully…
Day Three of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
Diversity is a word we use a lot when we want to curate a selection of truly worthwhile films, both feature and short length. Films…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: The Piano (Jane Campion)
The first film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes (it shared the victory with Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine), New…
Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Radical Honesty (Bianca Poletti)
With sharp, popping visuals and a pair of witty leads, Radical Honesty is a compelling, spiky watch. It’s also director Bianca Poletti’s commentary on what…
Day Two of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
I spy with my little eye something beginning with Academy Award winner for Best Director. Wowsers. Day two of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival features…
Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
I know we have become a much more refined bunch of film critic snobs over the years. But I take objection to some of the…
Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: Astonishing Little Feet (Maegan Houang)
An astonishing feat! Astonishing Little Feet is a perfectly formed period short, set in a cramped New York apartment in the 1830s. Here, a young…
Femme Film Fest 2023 Review: Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
Finally joining the prominent ranks of Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, comes the live action feature film about the one and only Wonder Woman….
Day One of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
Looks like we made it. The 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival has arrived. Better late than never. And a more low-key affair in 2023. But it…
8th Femme Filmmakers Festival – Full Line-Up Revealed
There’s no excusing the much more low-key event this year as the Femme Filmmakers Festival enters it’s 8th year. This very writer is humble enough…
Animation and Canadian Short Films Win Spread of Awards at 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Films from H264 Distribution (winner of the Special Contribution prize) were heavy in numbers but it was Sacrebleu Productions (last year’s recipient of the Special…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
For an artist, whether you create on the shoulders of giants or in their shadow is all a matter of perspective. In Bergman Island, married…
