Tag: FemmeFilmFest

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 happens at the bleeding edge of modern relationships. The short picks apart naïve ideals by practically testing them using two horny people. And what happens is super awkward. Poletti skewers late Millennial jargon, particularly the conceit of hook ups without consequence. And pretences fall away in six short minutes. Originally conceived by screenwriter and star Allison Goldfarb as a discussion between a…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

Hello there Day Four, we have been expecting you. Two French-Canadian short films join the fray today as well as a certain Angelina Jolie-directed film…

Now, I’m no teenage girl. Never have been. But stories on film about adolescent girls is a fairly common thread. And a soaring trend, the…