Tag: Review

Cassidy is a backpacker getting through a day of door-to-door sales in Toronto. At a time when three other women have gone missing. When she…

Films navigating the often-complex dynamics that frequently shape father-daughter relationships are not a new concept. But Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s 2024 documentary film, Daughters,…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

It’s hard to believe Past Lives is Celine Song’s debut film, but here we are.  Before watching, I decided to revisit some of the initial…