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The hypocrisy of the Cuties controversy

Antonia Louisa Georgiou28 September 2020

Antonia Louisa Georgiou argues that, while the voyeurism of Cuties’ trailer repulses viewers, male directors are getting away with far worse...

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Exploring one’s complex reality

Alessia Galatini19 April 2020

Alessia Galatini listens to Haifaa al-Mansour breaking down her second feature shot in Saudi...

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Gender-swapped sexism is not as edgy as it wants to be

Jonathan Sanderson26 February 2020

Jonathan Sanderson is disappointed by the failed potential of the Black Christmas reboot...

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Not little at all

Sophie Perry16 January 2020

Sophie Perry joins the standing ovation for Gerwig’s new adaption of Little Women...

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Meta-media and claustrophobic control

Pippa Sterk22 November 2019

Pippa Sterk enjoys how the power of our gaze is investigated in Soheil Beiraghi’s new Iranian sport drama, Permission...

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Tomorrow: a weak attempt at exploring the complexities of pain and trauma

Sarah Collier23 October 2019

Sarah Collier finds Martha Pinson’s debut film about a British veteran seriously wanting...

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Shapes that move: Sheffield Doc/Fest digs through the archives of British feminist collectives

Alessia Galatini12 July 2019

Alessia Galatini is grateful for the opportunity to learn about independent feminist filmmakers, past and contemporary...

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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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On the Basis of Sex: when a character is smaller than life

Alessia Galatini26 January 2019

Alessia Galatini feels that Mimi Leder’s biopic of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg does a bit of disservice to its iconic protagonist...

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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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The feminist home front

Daniel Dyson8 January 2019

Daniel Dyson provides a missing perspective on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, drawing our attention to its feminist message...

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The Hate U Give: a shift in cinema?

Pippa Sterk21 November 2018

A bit disappointed that the film lost some of the original novel’s insight and subtlety, Pippa Sterk still praises THUG as evidence that cinema is changing...

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A woman on trial: the toppling of Dilma Rousseff

Thais Nepomuceno14 November 2018

Thais Nepomuceno reviews Maria Augusta Ramos’ documentary about the 2016 impeachment of Brazil’s first woman president...

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Female Human Animal: embrace the unknown

Sabina Stent1 October 2018

Sabina Stent recommends Josh Appignanesi’s experimental film Female Human Animal as a fitting homage to Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s work...

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Real to reel: watching second wave activist documentaries

Rosa Campbell12 June 2018

Rosa Campbell reports from Artists & Activists: Second Wave Feminist Filmmakers, the mini festival of feminist documentaries from the 1970s and 1980s held recently at the Barbican Centre...

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Mansfield 66/67: a punchline too far?

Joanna Whitehead1 May 2018

Jayne Mansfield’s memory is mud in this tacky and tasteless documentary about her life and early demise, laments Joanna Whitehead...

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Living in between

M. Ly-Eliot26 September 2017

M. Lý-Eliot recommends Maysaloun Hamoud’s In Between, the Arab-Israeli director’s controversial first feature about young Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv...

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How do you measure the distance of reasonable fear?

Ania Ostrowska18 September 2017

Ania Ostrowska talks to American documentarian Yance Ford about his powerful debut Strong Island, available on Netflix...

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