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Looking for Volunteers: The 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Needs You

Filmotomy’s 9th annual Femme Filmmakers Festival is really not far away now. The online event runs again between 20th – 29th September 2024, when everyone…

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Festival International du Film de Cannes 77 Prizes – Anora by Sean Baker Takes the Palme d’Or

Another year of me not being at the Cannes Film Festival remains somewhat depressing, but even from afar (well, across the North Sea) my passion…

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Festival de Cannes Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

She’s mad as hell and as vengeful as they come— a woman of few words with the red hot fire of revenge in her eyes….

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Here are the Members of the Competition Jury for the 77th Festival de Cannes

We’ve known for a while now that actress and writer and director supreme, Greta Gerwig, would head the Jury for the Official Selection for the…

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77th Festival de Cannes Unveils the Official Poster for 2024 Event

The official poster for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is a serene, poetic visual, orchestrated heavily by the cinematic presence of Japanese movie-making maestro, Akira…

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Studio Ghibli to Receive an Honorary Palme d’or at the 77th Festival de Cannes

Whenever such a humongous portion of cinematic history is given such a prestigious spotlight, this editor has to say “Well it is about bloody time.”…

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Winners Announced for the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival Competition Selection Roll of Honour

As we reach the end of the 8th year of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, we have come to that part of the show where we…

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Day Ten of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

Before we bring down the final curtain on this online celebration of female artists, we can also look forward to the announcement of the award…

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Day Nine of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

It’s that famous penultimate day of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival. We have hopefully all seen the short films in Competition and Showcase, and are…

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Femme Film fest 23 Classic Short Weekend: Hot Seat (Anna Kerrigan)

2nd FEMME FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL (2017) How awkward is it to not be one of the cool kids invited to a teen house party? Ask Andrea…

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Day Eight of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023

Just three days to go before the close of the 8th Femme Filmmakers Festival. And with day eight comes the start of the classic short…

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TIFF 23 Dispatch: including ‘Fallen Leaves’; ‘Green Border’; ‘The Zone of Interest’

In addition to all the major Hollywood films and American indies I saw at TIFF, I also saw several international films from some of the…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Competition Selection: My Condolences To Your Future Lovers (Jessica Dowse)

Stacey and Vicky are young lovers having a squabble in the car, or is it a breakup? Director Jessica Dowse has written a crackling strong…

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Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)

Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a writer struggling from the failure of her biography of Estee Lauder, years removed from the success she had in…

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