Tag: film festivals

Kate diRienzi’s Nun’s Beach (2024) is a quietly moving short film that explores the intersections of faith, family, and queer love with tenderness. Inspired by…

Cheyenne Christie’s The High Road (2025) is an intimate and honest short film that explores the complicated relationship between an estranged mother and daughter. Their journey on the…

The Shadow, as its title suggests, is a very mysterious film. We begin with a woman being stalked by a looming figure on dark streets,…

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…

Come Lucciole (As Fireflies), Giulia Badalassi’s 2026 short film, is a moving meditation on grief, memory, and the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Set on…

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…

Mark your diaries and calendars, and cancel whatever plans you have during August 14th to 23rd, the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival short film screening schedule…

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…

Louisa Connolly Burnham’s 2024 short Sister Wives opens with a long close up panning shot of lead Kaidence’s tightly plaited hair. The camera slowly follows…

Is there a journalistically appropriate way to say I love this film and it was very sweet of Ariane Louis-Seize to make it for me?…

Speaking to director Issabella Orlando, Filmotomy got the chance to discuss her entry to the Festival, Topos. This poetic documentary is awash with heritage, history…

Fifty-Four Days is a short film co-directed by Phoebe Torrance and Cat White (who also wrote the script). Coincidentally, this is the second film in…

In this interview, Filmotomy got the chance to talk to up-and-coming director Misha Hassan. We discuss her entry into this year’s Festival, Awaaz Oonchi Karo…

Happy Snaps is a short submitted by Tyro Heath, funded by the BFI network. The film follows two young boys, Gabriel (Osian Pirotte) and Sami…

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…

“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,…