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Cinema Femme’s Most Anticipated Films at the 2025 New Orleans Film Festival

by cinemafemme

October 21, 2025

Rental Family, directed by Hikari Set in modern-day Tokyo, “Rental Family” follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for

African Cinema, Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth

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“We are part of anything that is possible and imaginable”: Directors Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams on “Neptune Frost” 

by 'Seun Babalola

June 10, 2022

Africa’s cinematic history is as diverse as its people. There’s our Senegalese cinematic “father” Ousmane Sembène, the post-colonial emergence of Nigeria’s Nollywood (the largest film industry on the continent, and second

African Cinema, Black History, February Showcase, Film Festivals, International Films, Interviews, Short Films

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“MÉBÉT” is breaking the trend of child marriages in Gambia and inspiring world-wide with its message

by Rebecca Martin

February 4, 2021

Watch “MÉBÉT” until 2/28 on our festival platform, REBECCA MARTIN: How did you come to this story/film? JAMA JACK: I wrote the story in 2012. At the time, I was

African Cinema, Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth

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Ainslee Robson tells her story through her VR graphic memoir “Ferenj”

by Rebecca Martin

August 20, 2020

I don’t know a lot about VR. I did it once before, and I was in this Van Gogh painting, and it made me feel really dizzy. When someone I

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