Tag: Reviews
FemmeFilmFest Review: Lauren Minnerath’s The Morning After
In the short film The Morning After, a gay interracial Brooklyn couple copes with life the day after the 2016 Presidential election. Directed by Lauren…
Four Great Short Films You May Have Missed at the 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival
With the Femme Filmmakers Festival for 2019 now closing its doors, here are four of the films out of competition that are still totally worth…
FemmeFilmFest Review: The Edge of Seventeen
This is the second installment in a series of articles dedicated to championing films that have seen little love since their release. I would like…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Lady Bird by Greta Gerwig
Lady Bird (2017) is a coming-of-age film that was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture. Directed and written by Greta Gerwig, this film stars…
FemmeFilmFest Review: A Silent Voice (Naoko Yamada)
Behind A Silent Voice’s immaculate, gorgeous animation, is direction so strong, so careful, and so well constructed, that it asserts Naoko Yamada as one of…
FemmeFilmFest Animation: Once Upon a Line from Alicja Jasina
We take everyday sounds for granted, the little hums and taps, the sips and steps, how the outside world of traffic and people seeps into…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Revenge directed by Coralie Fargeat
Having tip-toed on the verge of being exploitative in its graphical depiction of sexual assault versus actually being empowering, the rape-and-revenge genre has been a…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Capernaum, Nadine Labaki
With its award-winning streak and Oscar nominations Capernaum is a film that evidently a hit with critics and cinema goers alike with something bold to…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Short Film Thanksgiving directed by Van B. Nguyen
Van B. Nguyen’s Thanksgiving focuses on Ma (Elyse Dinh) while she prepares and hosts a holiday meal. And it is a beautiful, observant little film, about fitting in…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Christina Choe’s Nancy (2018)
Film history has been impacted by a number of Anglo female characters with various mental disturbances and obsessions. Bette Davis in Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)….
FemmeFilmFest Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman (2017)
Ever wonder (no pun intended) the origin of a comic book superhero? Angela Robinson‘s Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman tells us how Dr. William…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Alexandria Bombach’s Powerful Documentary On Her Shoulders
There is a deeply unsettling feeling that the truly empathetic experiences when informed of atrocities, regardless of the medium of conveyance. Documentary filmmaking, with or…
FemmeFilmFest: Short Animation ‘Sour’ directed by Daniela Sherer
As short films go, Sour is ultrashort, less than two minutes long. But damn it hurt! Daniela Sherer’s colourful animation presents the day in the…
FemmeFilmFest Review: Maegan Houang’s in competition short In Full Bloom
Let’s discuss a hypothetical. Let’s say you consider yourself a “green thumb” of sorts. You have a plant you really want to grow, so you…
