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 Rebecca Martin
October 14, 2022
Originally posted August 16, 2019. Google “Jennifer’s Body” and let the panning of 2009 begin, from the in–the–gutter critic reviews to the 44% Rotten Tomatoes score. Go on Letterboxd (a site for film geeks
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by Katie Small
October 13, 2022
When 19-year-old actress Maria Schneider agreed to perform the leading role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film, “Last Tango in Paris”, there was no rape scene in the original script. The
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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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by Rebecca Martin
September 15, 2022
“For me, putting this film out into the world is a way to explore the complicated love/hate relationship we have with our own abusers. If I can create a relatable
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by cinemafemme
September 9, 2022
A man tries to make amends to a woman he believes he sexually assaulted in college. Our 2020 interview with Melissa Stephens, who directed and stars in “Travis”
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by cinemafemme
September 1, 2022
Screenplay by Sarah Polley Directed by Sarah Polley Based upon the book by Miriam Toews Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand
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by cinemafemme
September 1, 2022
“Now in this post-#MeToo era when women look back at their past, they can say ‘this is a gray area, and it’s okay.’ We need to process things in more
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by cinemafemme
August 12, 2022
We are bringing our Sundance interview back because of the upcoming release of the film on 9/2/22 Cinema Femme had the pleasure to speak with sisters Adamma Ebo (writer and
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by cinemafemme
July 14, 2022
She Said – Only in Theaters November 18Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok | #SheSaid Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America limited series, The Big Sick) star as New York
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by Rebecca Martin
June 15, 2022
“What I’m most looking forward to is engaging with an audience. Like, who are the Janes out there, what are they going to ask me? That’s what I’m really curious
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by Rebecca Martin
January 28, 2022
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 Matt Fagerholm
January 26, 2022
Palm Trees and Power Lines Jamie Dack’s shattering debut feature, based on her short of the same name, is anchored by a performance from newcomer Lily McInerny that is sure