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Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
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by cinemafemme
February 6, 2023
Jamie Dack’s directorial feature debut “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is a revelation in the way she cinematically captures the delicate complexity and vulnerability of being a teenage girl, lost
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by cinemafemme
January 18, 2023
Melissa Marquez is the recipient of our “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” submission contest. She was chosen for her unique and passionate perspective. We are also featuring runner up recipient Viridiana
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by Matt Fagerholm
December 8, 2022
Of all the categories at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the one that voters seem to get right year after year is the one devoted to promising young talent. In
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by Rebecca Martin
November 11, 2022
I was very fortunate to interview “recovering journalist” and producer (“The Square”) Dina Amer about her feature directorial debut “You Resemble Me,” inspired by a story she first got wrong.
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by cinemafemme
October 10, 2022
Cinema Femme will soon have festival coverage of Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” at the Chicago International Film festival with an interview and a review. In the meantime, we are ecstatic
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Our top 10 recommended films to see at The 58th Chicago International Film Festival! (10/12 – 10/23)
by cinemafemme
September 19, 2022
Cinema Femme is based out of Chicago, and every year we make sure to promote our top recommendations for The Chicago International Film Festival. We’ve featured interviews with female and
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by cinemafemme
September 15, 2022
“As women, we are privileged to work in one of the most open-minded and forward-thinking industries, yet women are still glaringly underrepresented in the top levels of our industry,” she
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by Rebecca Martin
August 19, 2022
I’ll admit that when I checked out Stephanie Filo’s IMDB page and her website, I was a little intimidated. I am always in awe of the women and non-binary people
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by Rebecca Martin
May 20, 2022
As I watched the films for Short Block 3 at our virtual film festival a few weeks ago, we just finished Heidi Neff’s “The Long Goodbye”, an animated short film
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by Rebecca Martin
February 7, 2022
Why do I love cinema? One reason is the communal experience. I had so missed being in a theater with a full audience. I love joining my fellow audience members
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by Rebecca Martin
December 19, 2021
This is Part 2 of our top 50 films of 2021. Here we showcase the top 25. To read more about what motivated our list and part 1, see link.
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by Rebecca Martin
December 14, 2021
Cinema Femme “The Novice” interview with star Isabelle Fuhrman and director Lauren Hadaway “The Novice” comes to digital and theaters Friday, December 17th! Moderated by Cinema Femme managing editor Rebecca