Tag: Film Festival
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…
TIFF 23 Dispatch: ‘Knox Goes Away’; ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’; ‘Poolman’
Nearly every TIFF features one or two films directed by prominent actors, and to call them a mixed bag is almost deceitfully charitable. When something…
TIFF 2023 Dispatch: ‘American Fiction’; ‘Les Indesirables’; ‘Stamped From the Beginning; ‘Silver Dollar Road’
In the first few days of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, I saw films depicting the struggle of Black communities and families in many…
Festival de Cannes Review: Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Monster is the latest film from renowned Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous prolific work includes films such as Broker and Shoplifters, which had their…
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…
Welcome to Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival signifies the last leg of this amazing race. Those ten days have flew by. And no doubt…
FemmeFilmFest7 Director Roundtable: Dayna Reggero, Olivia Martin-McGuire, Cansu Boğuşlu, Lynn Tomlinson Talk Exclusively to Robin Write
Being the only male in a ‘room’ full of women is an intimidating wonder at the best of times, but when they are as talented…
Welcome to Day Nine of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
It’s my festival I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Not quite at the final curtain, but we have landed…
Welcome to Day Eight of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Well it’s been a long week. Yet somehow it zoomed by. Which reminds me, do look out for the Femme Filmmakers Festival Director Roundtable we…
Welcome to Day Seven of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
I’m fairly certain there are no films made by God or Bergman in today line-ups so don’t be fooled by the feature film titles on…