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Seahorses, kitchens, war and memory: motherhood through Sheffield Doc/Fest headliners

Alessia Galatini27 June 2019

Alessia Galatini revels in diverse portrayals of contemporary motherhood in films and interactive projects at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest...

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Three cheers for lesbian filmmakers!

Pippa Sterk15 January 2019

Pippa Sterk reports from the Fringe! Film Fest London screening of Caroline Berler’s Dykes, Camera, Action!...

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Women’s voices at London Korean Film Festival 2018

Guest Blogger24 October 2018

The London Korean Film Festival 2018 team introduces this year’s focus on women directors, including the Women's Voices strand...

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The Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival is back!

Guest Blogger30 September 2018

Lucy Smith invites everyone who can make it to Cardiff for the 12th edition of Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, taking place from 9 to 14 October 2018 ...

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Celebrating LGBT+ film with the Iris Prize Festival

Guest Blogger27 September 2017

Earlier this year, Suryatapa Mukherjee joined the team behind the Iris Prize Festival to help produce its programme catalogue. She gives us a run-down of what to expect from this year’s festival ...

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“I am drawn to the fire”: Being Ruby Rich programme at London Barbican next week

Sophie Mayer15 June 2017

Sophie Mayer introduces Being Ruby Rich, programme of screenings and talks celebrating feminist film critic coming to London next week...

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From Serena Williams to Sonita Alizadeh: women in docs at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016

Ania Ostrowska8 July 2016

Ania Ostrowska looks at women on screen and behind the camera at the recent Sheffield Doc/Fest, the UK’s biggest documentary festival...

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Diversity of women’s voices at the Chinese Visual Festival

Nuala Gathercole Lam5 July 2016

Nuala Gathercole Lam chats to the festival’s curator Xie Jingjing and filmmaker Yang Lina who both offer insights into Chinese women in film and on screen...

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“When we come out, our parents go into the closet themselves”: interview with Sophia Luvarà

Ania Ostrowska8 March 2016

Ania Ostrowska chats to Sophia Luvarà about her first documentary feature Inside the Chinese Closet and recommends you check out the Human Rights Watch Festival where it will soon be screening...

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Fringe! Fest highlight: Women and the Word director Q&A (plus competition)

Ania Ostrowska18 November 2015

Interview with Sekiya Dorsett, director of the documentary Women and the Word: The Revival Movie ...

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Underwire festival: 20-22 November @ Hackney Picturehouse

Ania Ostrowska10 November 2015

Underwire festival is back, in its sixth year, and we have some tickets for you!...

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Experimental filmmaking: Chick Strand is coming to Tate Modern

Selina Robertson9 November 2015

Why is Tate Modern about to screen a retrospective of one of the most significant feminist film-makers from the LA scene of the 1960s and 1970s? Selina Robertson talks to curator George Clark to find out...

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Origins: Festival of First Nations (London, 9-24 June)

Sophie Mayer2 June 2015

Sophie Mayer previews the film programme of Origins: Festival of First Nations that celebrates female filmmakers from across the globe, telling the stories of Indigenous women ...

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SERET 2015 Festival preview: Self Made

Agata Ostrowska30 May 2015

Agata Ostrowska enjoys the eeriness of Shira Geffen's new film, to be screened during the upcoming London Israeli Film and Television Festival (11-21 June) ...

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Girlhoods, Margaritas and Björk: watching women at the London Film Festival

Sophie Mayer10 October 2014

With a record-breaking number of female directors represented at this year's festival, Sophie Mayer offers a feministly subjective 'What to see' guide ...

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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: a secret thread of feminist elders revealed

Sophie Mayer22 July 2014

Sophie Mayer recommends documentaries to watch out for, hand-picked from this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest line-up ...

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Birds Eye View documentaries: from Algeria to Pine Ridge

Sophie Mayer5 April 2014

Sophie Mayer reports from press screenings of two BEV documentaries - Narimane Mari's Bloody Beans and Anna Eborn's Pine Ridge ...

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Arthouse cinema versus Gangnam style

M. Ly-Eliot12 December 2012

M. Lý-Eliot finds respite from Gangnam style 'sexy ladies' in two central characters of The Weight, a challenging film by Korean arthouse director Jeon Kyu-Hwan ...

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