Tag: short film
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Céu de Agosto // August Sky (Jasmin Tenucci)
Many great films confound and delight, but barely convey their message in two hours. So how has director Jasmin Tenucci managed to make August Sky…
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…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: We speak to ‘Down From the Clouds’ Director Cansu Boğuşlu
Let me just say first of all without any bias that the short film submitted by Cansu Boğuşlu to this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival is…
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…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Laundry Day (Rose E Knopper)
Current, moving and relevant, Laundry Day gently opens a conversation which a lot of people are likely to want and/or need to have in our…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Two Eggs, Scrambled (Melissa Dimetres)
The tinkle of a piano and the tedium plastered across our heroine’s face goes a long way to tell us something about the state of…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Fanmi (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Carmine Pierre-Dufour)
Fanmi is a quietly devastating film, revolving around a recognisable mother-daughter relationship. As the daughter, Martine endures the trappings of her own mind, and an…
Welcome to Day Six of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
There is an echo of the beginning and the end of things with the short films on display as we hurtle into Day Six of…
Welcome to Day Five of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
As we approach the half time whistle, expect some bombardment of activity as we look to recap and promote further what has gone so far….
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: The Mirror (Giulia Achenza)
From the opening second of this less-than-three-minute short film I recognised the music playing over the already eye-catching images as deftly similar to that of…
Welcome to Day Four of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
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…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Lune / Moon (Zoé Pelchat)
Joanie Martel gives a beautiful and nuanced performance as Babz, a “lonely but endearing ex convict” in Zoe Pelchat’s Lune. When we meet Babz, she’s…
Welcome to Day Three of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Knock knock. Who’s there? Date. Date who? No, no, no, it’s Day Three not Day Two. Some very vivid images for your eyes today covering…