Category: Review
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda) – a Floral Horror Film
The film is titled Le Bonheur or ‘Happiness’ in translation, and it’s filled with exactly that. In fact, as far as I recall, there’s only…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
“With me, you see the time pass. And feel it pass.” Time is something we feel, observe, experience. It’s also something we cannot truly know,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Topos: a poetic documentary (Issabella Orlando)
Topos: A Poetic Documentary, written and directed by Issabella Orlando, is a visually evocative and deeply reflective five-minute short film. It delicately balances themes of…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Ceiling (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
Outstanding in its realistic and hugely engaging story-telling, The Ceiling takes a clever look at the idea of consent. Taking place the morning after a night together,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Body Heat (Andra Smileanschi)
Body Heat is an abstract and poetic short piece that touches on themes of vulnerability and surrender to human contact. The luscious visuals are a montage…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Profile and Opinion: Bi-Nocular Panic (Anouk Witkowska Hiffler)
Profile Anouk Witkowska Hiffler is a French-German filmmaker from Paris. She moved to London in 2020 and graduated from the University of Westminster Film BA…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: When Winter Comes (Yuan Yuan)
Shot in New York and funded by the Spike Lee Fund When Winter Comes was directed by Chinese filmmaker Yuan Yuan. It is a film…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Profile and Opinion: Tragedy Babes (Christa Haley)
Profile Christa Haley is a filmmaker based in New York City. She grew up in rural northern New York, where her grandfather’s love for making…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Pink Eye (Gabriela Routledge)
The extensive addition of student films to this year’s edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival was certain to add a kind of rawness and nuance…
