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
April 21, 2023
Words from Rebecca Martin, our Managing Editor, about “Other People’s Children” during her Sundance coverage As a person who just turned 40, at the tail end of last year, I
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by Rebecca Martin
February 24, 2023
From one “lost soul” to another, I felt a deep connection with visual artist Park Ji-Min (also known as Ji-Min) as a person. I also felt deeply connected with her
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by Davide Abbatescianni
February 22, 2023
Cinema Femme met up with Taiwan’s Zero Chou, helmer of “Untold Herstory.” The feature, world-premiered in the Harbour section of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 25-February 5), and
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by Elena Rubashevskaja
February 14, 2023
The festival year started for me in a most unexpected way, on January 14, 2023, I landed in Bangladesh, a place I’d never been before and would not have normally
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by Rebecca Martin
January 29, 2023
Puerto Rico is a place I did not know a lot about. I almost went to San Juan on a vacation once, but had to cancel last minute because of
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by Peyton Robinson
January 22, 2023
What is a woman? There are countless amounts of social qualifications ranging from personality to action to life trajectory that shift and alter with both time and culture. Does the
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by Rebecca Martin
November 15, 2022
Last week Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema Film Festival wrapped up its 15th season showing eight Hong Kong productions. I was fortunate to interview one of the filmmakers behind one of
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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 Rebecca Martin
October 17, 2022
I’m going to be 40 next month. For a while I couldn’t think or say that without flinching a bit. I have had it instilled in me there are certain
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by Davide Abbatescianni
October 10, 2022
Cinema Femme met up with talented Laura Baumeister, helmer of “Daughter of Rage,” the first narrative feature directed by a Nicaraguan woman. The movie, world-premiered in the Discovery section of
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by Rebecca Martin
October 4, 2022
Actor and filmmaker Greta Bellamacina ended our interview by saying what she hopes people see in her work are “complicated, unexpected characters who shouldn’t be there. I feel like I’d
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by Dawn Borchardt
September 28, 2022
We take a look back at our Sundance coverage of the documentary “Sirens” directed by Rita Baghdadi (@ritaamal). The film will be kicking off their theatrical release this Friday (9/30/22)