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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…

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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…

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Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: The Piano, 1993

We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. The Piano, 1993 Palme d’Or – Jane Campion…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)

Transient light dances through the slits between wooden boards, and the sounds of voices dance with it. Those people are up there in their revelry…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Nine Program

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Nine Program — Saturday 9th September 2017 Well here we are at the penultimate of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017 – Line-Up Announced

Here we are once again. I literally salivate at the mouth at the prospect of spending hours and hours in a darkened room with all…

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10 Female Directors Who Could Have Won At Cannes

Sofia Coppola’s Best Director win at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival not only put a huge pin in the map of film history, it also…

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