The 10th Femme Filmmakers Festival – coming 19th through 28th September 2025 – has finally finalised the films made by women to be shown much love at this year’s event. A staggering 63 short films (more than double the usual amount) have been chosen for this very special online celebration, broken down into three distinct categories.
The new segment is the Entrée Selection, where 19 short films from some first time film-makers, but primarily actual film students, make the cut. Then we have the usual Competition Selection, with 21 short films from the current season, and 23 pre-season short films land in the Showcase Selection. So collectively with the 24 feature films across the 10 days of the event, we will be giving the limelight to 87 films with women behind the camera.
Here, for now, is the complete short and feature film line-up. And shortly we will reveal this year’s official poster as well as meeting the competition jury. A full program of events including profiles, scheduling, and further information about the 10th edition is to follow. As is the launch of the official Femme Filmmakers Festival website.
COMPETITION SELECTION (SHORTS)
Afterplay (Iris Breward)
Badger (Martha Crow)
Bi-Nocular Panic (Anouk Witkowska Hiffler)
Boo! (Georgia Michailidi)
C U Next Tuesday (Eden Sandy)
Dear Mr Williams (Stefania Aronica)
Don’t Be Rude (Jessica Hof)
Fire At Will (Morgan Gruer)
Francie (Zoë Ellender)
Happy Snaps (Tyro Heath)
It’s A Family Thing (Lea Anderson)
Let It Flow (Galina Chakarova)
Mole (Shari Sharpe)
My Sister is Dead (Nimra Munawar)
Nice Package (Fran St Clair)
No Strings (Molly Lipson)
Not All Men (Laura Lee Daly)
Phantasma (Maria Servellon)
Sister Wives (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
TOPOS, a poetic documentary (Issabella Orlando)
Victoria Villasana (Felicia Manning)
SHOWCASE SELECTION (SHORTS)
2k5 (Nicole Pott)
Awaaz Oonchi Karo / Louder (Misha Hassan)
The Best Is To Get Lost (Susana Soares Pinto)
Body Heat (Andra Smileanschi)
Can (Kailee McGee)
The Ceiling (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
Ceres (Amelia Sears)
City Dreams (Madil Hardis)
Escape (Masha Maroutitch)
Fifty-Four Days (Cat White, Phoebe Torrance)
Fleeting (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
Interference (Luana Di Pasquale)
Mam (Lainya Craig, Nadzeya Mikhalchenkava, Laura Lee Daly, Siobhon Kayley, Liam Bowering, MJ Murray, Hailie Warren)
Material Bodies (Dorothy Allen-Pickard)
MidRiff (Neeraja Raj)
Munchkin (Anne Thorens)
The Neighbor (Asbirg Naranjo)
Oh Rats (Amelia Clarkson)
Paradise Blue (Roxanna Stroe)
Stronghold (Meghann Artes)
The Track (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
We Did Not Consent (Dorothy Allen-Pickard)
Weekend Dad (Dorothy Allen-Pickard)
ENTRÉE SELECTION (SHORTS)
A Bed of Foxgloves (Holly Joyce)
Beneath the Branches (Madeline Daisy Waling-Smyth)
Birds Talk To Humans All The Time (Julia Fiona Brown)
Curiosa (Tessa Moult-Milewska)
D.A.N.C.E. (Alexianne Charlery-Warner)
Distance (Jennifer Williams)
The Empty Nest (Kleidi Likola)
Eventually, Empathy (Matilda Irving de Andres)
Hello, I’m David Bowie (Roxanna Stroe)
Lusthouse (Neeraja Raj)
Magpie (Erin Curran, Megan McDonagh)
Moonbound (Eva Harris-Dore)
Pink Eye (Gabriela Lea Routledge)
Rave (Emily Macrander)
Poisonous (Roxanna Stroe)
Scarlet Silence (Zen Nguyen)
Serene Solitude (Madeline Daisy Waling-Smyth)
Tragedy Babes (Christa Haley)
When Winter Comes (Yuan Yuan)
FEATURE FILM
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
Beauty and the Dogs (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito)
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
Daughters (Angela Patton, Natalie Rae)
Fair Play (Chloe Domont)
For Sama (Waad al-Kateab , Edward Watts)
Happening (Audrey Diwan)
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize)
Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
News from Home (Chantal Akerman)
The Novice (Lauren Hadaway)
Papicha (Mounia Meddour)
Past Lives (Celine Song)
Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)
Revenge (Coralie Fargeat)
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert)
The Short History of the Long Road (Ani Simon-Kennedy)
The Swallows of Kabul (Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (Issa López)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Vermiglio (Maura Delpero)
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)