Welcome to the festival. Selecting the short films and feature films to be included in Filmotomy’s 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival was no easy feat. The categories across the festival include Competition Selection, Showcase Selection, Entrée Selection, and Feature Film Curation. We watched and judged countless hours of international short films to curate our final selection.
This year sees innovative animation pieces and informative documentaries leading the way. We come together to celebrate female filmmakers from the unique animation style behind Winter in March (2025) directed by Natalia Mirzoyan to Catherine Joy White’s personally captivating real-world stories in Swim Sistas (2025). Countries involved in the 11th edition sees international short films from the UK, Belgium, Spain, Greece, France, Germany, Armenia, Italy, Australia, USA, Canada, Argentina, and Egypt.
This year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival, hosted by Filmotomy will take place online between 14th to 23rd August 2026.
This is the official selection line-up for Filmotomy’s 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival 2026.
Competition Selection
We selected 17 short films as part of our Competition Selection. This category is for the in season short films that will compete for prizes.
- Beam Me Up (Roxana Stroe)
- Dirt (Isabella Speaight)
- En mille pétales / In Thousand Petals (Louise Bongartz)
- Fairground (Jess Berry)
- Fish (Ian Yarwood, Cara Mahoney)
- Ha nacido un niño / A Child Was Born (Kati Egely)
- I Felt Like Magic (Emma Josephson)
- Immaterial (Alexandra Healy)
- Loneliness Doesn’t Come Alone (Amanda Valle)
- Maybrick (Charlotte Rose Ainsworth, Lorna Lennon-Dalziel)
- Overlooked: A Silent Extinction (Cathy Ellington)
- Songs of Salt (Isabella Bazoni)
- Stick Bug (Wylie Anderson)
- Sukoun / Amplified (Dina Naser)
- Swim Sistas (Catherine Joy White)
- Winter in March (Natalia Mirzoyan)
- Wormholes (Vanessa Bailey)
Showcase Selection
We selected 12 short films as part of our Showcase Selection. This category is mainly for short films that are out of season or non-competition contenders.
- Arash The Archer (Shaghayevh Nozari)
- The Call Centre (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
- Cautivas / Captive Women (Itxaso Díaz)
- Cicada (Roxana Stroe)
- Come Lucciole / As Fireflies (Giulia Badalassi)
- Despite Everything (Anita Amarachi)
- Julie Takes a Walk (Frankie Pedersen, Shea Vassar)
- The Lover (Cadenza Zhao)
- Non Ad Locum (Amanda Lago)
- The Shadow (Kyran Townley, Arrianna Leigh)
- Tend and Keep (Dayna Reggero)
- Ubiquitous (Masha Maroutitch)
Entrée Selection
We selected 12 short films as part of our Entrée Selection. This category is dedicated to showcasing student short films.
- Bristol One City – Working Together For Bristol’s Future (Aditi Ganesh, Peri Hammond)
- Filter (Sarah Imtiyaz Murtaza)
- The High Road (Cheyenne Christie)
- Invisible Difference (Emma Louise Shadbolt)
- L’Audition (Lilinaz Hakimi)
- Long Term Care (Arin Hincer)
- Modern Masturbation Allegory (Xinyi LI)
- Nun’s Beach (Kate diRienzi)
- O Arhontas tou Ethnikou Kipou / The Lord of the National Garden (Dimitra Tsialou)
- R3D@CTED (Georgia Olivia Wood)
- Scroll or Stroll (Lita Segal, Ceri Gavins)
- Wuthered (Sophie Brownlow)
Feature Film Curation
We selected 20 feature films as part of our Feature Film Curation section.
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
- All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
- Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
- Apocalipse nos Trópicos (Petra Costa)
- The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)
- Den stygge stesøsteren (Emilie Blichfeldt)
- Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
- In die Sonne schauen (Mascha Schilinski)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
- Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud)
- Les Plages d’Agnès (Agnès Varda)
- Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
- Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
- The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
- The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
- Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour)
- Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
- Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennell)
We hope you can join us for the 10-days of the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival as we showcase the amazing films written, directed or produced by female filmmakers around the world. Let us know which films you are most excited to watch! In the meantime, we recommend you read our celebratory post documenting a remarkable decade of the Femme Filmmakers Festival here.
