A report on the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, which unfolded last weekend at the Music Box in Chicago.

The primary struggle of Chernov’s documentary is that it leans into the impersonal in an attempt at devastation.

To be clear, I’ve made “The Home” sound far cooler than it deserves. This is a brain-dead horror film whose potential for fun campy excess is undercut by its own self-satisfied twist and its illogical ...