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2022 Films

15 min read

Editor’s Picks: Top 25 Films of 2022

by Rebecca Martin

December 16, 2022

As a movie lover, I can’t help connecting the meaning in my life to what I’m seeing on the screen. Sometimes films expand my meaning, and sometimes they confirm it.

2022 Films, Chicago International Film Festival, Film Festivals, Interviews, Toronto International Film Festival

10 min read

You Can Never Tell What Private Tragedies People Have Had: Filmmaker Marian Mathias on her feature debut, “Runner”

by Rebecca Martin

October 28, 2022

“The world stands out on either sideNo wider than the heart is wide;Above the world is stretched the sky,—No higher than the soul is high.The heart can push the sea

Chicago, Indie Films, Interviews

18 min read

Clare Cooney makes her directorial feature debut with “Departing Seniors”

by Rebecca Martin

September 24, 2022

To deem a filmmaker as scrappy is the highest compliment. Clare Cooney continues to evolve in her many abilities as a filmmaker and artist, and has always has embodied the

Stream Short

1 min read

Look back: “Runner” – Clare Cooney

by cinemafemme

September 9, 2022

A woman goes for a jog and witnesses something she can’t run away from. Read our 2019 interview with Clare Cooney about her short “Runner”.

Chicago, Interviews, Short Films

5 min read

A conversation between Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin and filmmaker/actor Clare Cooney

by Rebecca Martin

January 22, 2019

I first heard about filmmaker and actor Clare Cooney after her buzzworthy short film “Runner” (2017) showed at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in 2018. A few months later, I