Women

FemmeFilmFest 7 Review: Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)

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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is as beautifully complicated as its title suggests. Viewers are in for a gentle and timeless chronicle of your typical love at first sight romance, packaged neatly around an immersive narrative. Lili Horvát’s time-travelesque tale of dreadful destiny reveals a merciless mental battle between what’s true […]

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Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced for the 2022 Femme Filmmakers Festival

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Our team at Filmotomy.com is proud to welcome you to our brand new site for the Femme Filmmakers Festival— and just in time for our 7th annual fest! Here is the hub for everything you need for festing- from schedules to reviews and screenings links. Speaking of which, after hours of viewing and deliberation, we’ve

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Winners Announced for 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival – Roll of Honour

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It goes without saying that there has been an abundance of talent across the board from all the submissions to our festival this year, and our wonderful jury has had the challenge of voting and deciding on their picks for each category. Here are the long awaited and well deserved results and respectable winners of

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Hysterical Girl

FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)

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That opening news report-esque splatter of the remarkable Hysterical Girl kicks open the door of urgency and relevance . The 13 minute short film ends on a punch too, a glorious but ponderous one. Pretty much everything in between – not a second wasted – is candid, paramount and unforgettable. Hysterical Girl has the female

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #46: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker)

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However familiar the name Josephine Decker is to you might determine on some level your love of film. The filmmaker’s recent favourites, Shirley (2020) and Madeline’s Madeline (2018), certainly echoed Decker’s name louder than before. But how many of you have ventured to her surreal, captivating earlier films, Butter On The Latch (2013), and in

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Blow the Man Down (Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy)

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There are two types of women in Easter Cove, the small fishing town where Blow the Man Down takes place: the good, honest women who marry fisherman and hide the unsavoury parts of themselves, and the women who don’t. Blow the Man Down, from filmmakers Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, centres around women put

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