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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...

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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A terrifyingly tangible future

Becky Kukla13 July 2017

Despite some changes to her beloved novel, Becky Kukla thinks the serial adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is looking great...

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Women make documentaries! Sheffield Doc/Fest roundup

Ania Ostrowska1 July 2017

Ania Ostrowska is still slightly intoxicated with the abundance and diversity of women-made documentaries at this year’s Sheffield International Documentary Festival...

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No man’s land belongs to women

Becky Kukla11 June 2017

Becky Kukla enjoys Wonder Woman so much that she cannot wait to see more superhero films directed by women ...

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Be careful what you eat

Ngaire Ruth24 April 2017

Ngaire Ruth finds a great many old tropes under the fresh blood of Raw, Julia Ducournau’s debut feature...

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The power of a loving couple

Emily Chudy8 March 2017

Emily Chudy reviews touching civil-rights drama Loving, exploring the lessons that still need to be learnt from one marriage that changed the course of history...

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