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
October 21, 2025
Rental Family, directed by Hikari Set in modern-day Tokyo, “Rental Family” follows an American actor (Brendan Fraser) who struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for
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by Rebecca Martin
March 27, 2024
To celebrate the release of the film, we bring back our 2023 New Orleans Film Festival interview (originally posted on 11/2/23) with filmmaker Nailah Jefferson about her feature documentary “Commuted,”
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by Rebecca Martin
November 29, 2023
“We know that our rising tide lifts all boats. We are who we depend on, so we create spaces where we can uplift each other. This is not a place
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by Rebecca Martin
November 8, 2023
I’m going to keep my intro brief because I feel filmmaker Michéle Stephenson speaks to the truth of her film “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project,” which she co-directed
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by Rebecca Martin
November 7, 2023
Sometimes you need a film that can wash over you and speak to the elements in your soul by reflecting the world around you. That is what “All Dirt Roads
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by Rebecca Martin
November 1, 2023
Cinema Femme is going to New Orleans for its 34th annual film festival! This will be the first year in which I will personally be covering the festival for Cinema