Tag: FemmeFilmFest
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Monsoon Wedding – Mira Nair
Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding blends wonderful Indian tradition into a modern story of family, love, and the test of values. It introduces cultural backgrounds into…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Julia Ducournau's Raw
Justine (Garance Marillier ) is a first-year veterinary student. Her elder sister (Ella Rump) is studying the same course at the university. Justine was raised…
Filmotomy Podcast Episode 42: Special Guest – Aria Director Myrsini Aristidou
Another special guest for Podcast 42. This time the female writer-director of the brilliant short film, Aria, in competition at the Femme Filmmakers Festival, Myrsini…
Femme Filmmakers Festival: Lisa E Williams Talks the Collaboration Between Music and Filmmaking
“I wanted to make a short film /documentary about where our stories come from, the real ones, the ones that make us who we are…”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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] – – –…
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…
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…
