Tag: Femme Film Fest 2026

Roxana Stroe‘s coming-of-age short film Cicada blends 90s rave culture with themes of identity and friendship. The film follows Gallup, a young man facing pressure…

Cautivas (2024) is an honest, powerful documentary that puts a human face to the harsh realities of El Salvador’s total abortion ban. The film follows…

For those who may not be familiar, Bristol is a city in the South West of England that is home to an incredibly diverse culture,…

In En mille pétales (2023), Louise Bongartz crafts a poignant and visually rich exploration of love, memory, and erosion within a relationship. Rather than relying on dialogue-heavy…

At its core, Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s The Call Centre is a film that goes out of its way to be provocative. And it acknowledges that. This…

Where to begin? And how much do I disclose? Weighing up an impossible balance of professional and personal, I have opted to make this short…

The 11th Edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival is just around the corner. So, yes, I have been unable to resist the urge to tantalise…

Every year for the Femme Filmmakers Festival we assemble a jury for the Competition Selection. It’s a huge job, to find 9 liked-minded souls who…

Here is the line-up for the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival. Filmotomy’s Senior Editor Hannah Taylor and I watched every short film submitted, and determined after…

The designing of the official poster for our Femme Filmmakers Festival might be a small part of our unfathomable prep work each year. But definitely…

Back in January, perhaps February, I started throwing out there the notion of prepping super early for this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival. I mean, in…