HIGHLIGHTS: June 2023 Female Film Festival Showcase

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: VAPOR
Best Long Form Short Film: JANE
Best Cinematography: THE PAGETURNER
Best Direction: COASTEERING
Best Performances: THE THREAD
Best Sound & Music: ELISABETH
Best Story: TRACES ON THE WALL
Bes Student Film: MY GIRLS

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

COASTEERING, 14min.,, Ireland, Drama
Directed by Audrey O’Reilly
Orla and David are a married couple in their 40s on the other side of unsuccessful IVF treatments. Orla uses running to calm her mind and process the trauma of those years of trying. Meanwhile David is focusing his attention on their home, on being useful and productive after the years of feeling so helpless and useless as his wife suffered through it all.

https://www.instagram.com/coasteering_shortfilm

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

ELISABETH, 14min., Switzerland, Drama/Suspesne
Directed by Monica De Almeida
Recurring dreams, death, a resonating name the keeps coming up…
Mr Bojac, widower since several months, feels like he’s losing his mind! These images are oppressing to him. He desperately tries to understand their meaning and feels out of strength!

http://www.elisabeth-lefilm.com/https://www.facebook.com/Elisabeth.lefilm/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

STEAM (VAPOR), 6min,. Portugal
Directed by Susan Abreu
She is a mirage from the past that like water in the sun has evaporated. Now it’s time to disappear.

https://vimeo.com/bandoaparte

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

THE THREAD, 6min,. USA
Directed by Claire Rose Kennedy
In which we discover, detangle, and hopefully destroy the intergenerational threads that keep us from fully expressing our creativity. It’s not as pretentious as it sounds. Promise.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

JANE, 17min,. Canada
Directed by Sydney Scotia
When a misunderstood young wife in the late 19th century is restricted by her well-intentioned physician husband to a summer of bed rest, her imagination takes her down a spiral of what we think is her descent into madness, but is it?

https://www.instagram.com/jane_thefilm/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

MY GIRLS, 2min., Canada
Directed by Veronika Marsland
This is a story of how my daughters taught me to be more present.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

THE PAGETURNER, 10min., Ireland
Directed by Siubhan Ni Ghriofa
A page turner for some of the worlds leading classical soloists Tom has a secret that may end his beloved career.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

TRACES ON THE WALL, 15min., Kyrgyzstan
Directed by Asel Abakirova
The spinal cord injury of the protagonist leads to paralysis. After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, he accidentally discovers a small ray of hope to live on.

https://www.facebook.com/adylbektokonov/
https://www.instagram.com/tracesonthewall/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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