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 Emily Jacobson
January 30, 2026
When I landed in what would be the last Sundance in Park City, Utah, a notable feeling of gratitude washed over me. My first day was a frenzy of badge
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by Rebecca Martin
August 1, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein. Still making headlines. But the women impacted by his crimes—by his misogyny—are rarely named. Many choose to remain anonymous, but not all. So where are their stories? Writer
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by Matt Fagerholm
April 9, 2024
One of the finest female ensembles in recent years can be found in Bertrand Bonello’s 2011 masterwork, “House of Pleasures,” originally titled “L’Apollonide” in France, the name of the Parisian
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by Rebecca Martin
October 16, 2023
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” –Margaret Atwood During a time when #MeToo was at the front of people’s
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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
March 26, 2020
I was first introduced to Deborah Kampmeier’s “Tape” during my interview with the film’s cinematographer Valentina Caniglia. Since our conversation took place a year ago, she couldn’t go into depth
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by Rebecca Martin
February 24, 2020
In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s guilty verdict, and him being the man who sparked the #MeToo movement, there is a film that captures precisely where we are today. Women
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by Rebecca Martin
February 6, 2020
The tweets. The movement. The conversation. Kitty Green’s film “The Assistant” takes the #MeToo movement, and the conversation around it, to a place where it began. Julia Garner plays Jane,
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by Rebecca Martin
December 13, 2019
[over the phone]Megyn Kelly: Ready to go to war?Gretchen Carlson: Oh, yeah. “Bombshell” (2019) Spoilers revealed Being interviewed by my soon-to-be boss, I could tell he thought I was good looking, that
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by Rebecca Martin
April 16, 2019