Cinema Femme’s Top 10 Films of 2024
This year started as it usually does for Cinema Femme with the Sundance Film Festival. Although we didn’t get the kind of coverage we’d like, as we were covering mostly remotely (we will be there in 2025!), we still found some of our favorite films of the year at the festival, including our #1, #3, […]
Polish writer/director Aleksandra Terpinska talks about her epic punk rock drama “Other People”
At Tallinn, we had the chance to sit down with Aleksandra Terpinska, writer/director of “Other People”. The Polish-French co-production, a highly original musical urban drama set in contemporary Warsaw, centers on the vicissitudes of Kamil, an alcoholic, wannabe rapper (portrayed by Jacek Beler) and Iwona (Sonia Bohosiewicz), a trophy wife devoured by her boring everyday […]
A cult classic is in our midst with Jennifer Reeder’s teen noir ‘Knives and Skin’
“Knives and Skin” follows the investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in a rural Midwest town. The coming-of-age film has been described as a mix of Lynchian thriller and high school musical.
Fish out of water: Haroula Rose on ‘Once Upon a River,’ directing Maya Hawke, and much more
I’m Greek, my family is from Greece, but I grew up in the Midwest, and I also love Americana as well as folk and country music. Who gets to have a right to those things that are evocative of their experience? If you’re a fish out of water, you can find them anywhere. Director Haroula […]