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by Rebecca Martin
September 23, 2025
“you.matter” is an animated sci-fi drama about an astronaut dislodged from her mothership, left with only her final thoughts as she grapples with why this has happened to her. The
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by Davide Abbatescianni
August 8, 2025
Norwegian helmer Nina Knag makes her feature debut with “Don’t Call Me Mama,” which world-premiered in the Crystal Globe Competition of this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12).
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by Anna Pattison
July 2, 2025
Comedy is an essential tool of humanity — it reaches places within us that can often be too scary to face on our own. And, especially when it is a
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by cinemafemme
June 21, 2025
🎬 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival Returns to the Music Box Theatre, July 17–21, 2025 Opening Night Reception, Dynamic Panels, Celebrated Shorts, and Awards Presentation Among the Highlights CHICAGO, IL
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by Peyton Robinson
June 18, 2025
Fredgy Noël’s newest short, NEW YORK DAY WOMEN, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Based on Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat’s 1991 short story of the same name, the story follows young
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by cinemafemme
June 13, 2025
Connie Shi’s newest short, “The Rebirth,” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival on June 6th. The story follows Hana, a waitress who takes a black market abortion pill in a near-future
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by Elena Rubashevskaja
May 29, 2025
Going to a festival is always an adventure, and as the very word “festival” suggests, it is a pleasant one. Yet a month prior to the Beirut International Women Film
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by Anna Pattison
April 2, 2025
“TRANGO” follows Christina ‘Lusti’ Lustenberger and Jim Morrison, joined by Nick McNutt and Chantel Astorga, as they prepare for and ski the first descent of the Great Trango Glacier. They
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by Rebecca Martin
March 16, 2025
I was fortunate to discover Karina Dandashi and her work at the Indy Shorts Film Festival in 2023. Her short film, “Cousins,” which screened at the festival, was about a
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by Davide Abbatescianni
March 6, 2025
After a successful festival run kicked off at San Sebastian and BFI London last year, Sylvia Le Fanu’s debut, titled “My Eternal Summer,” heads to the Göteborg Film Festival, one
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by Davide Abbatescianni
March 5, 2025
In her latest endeavor, “White Roses Fall!” (in Spanish: “¡Caigan las rosas blancas!”), Argentinian filmmaker Albertina Carri follows Violeta, a director known for her breakout amateur lesbian porn hit, as
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by Peyton Robinson
February 25, 2025
For my final dispatch of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, I’m covering three films that I watched virtually. Ironically, these films, while not all specifically tailoring their plots to location,
