HIGHLIGHTS: August 2023 Female Film Festival Showcase

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: PISS ON PATRIARCHY
Best Performances: THE LAST DINNER
Best Sound & Music: EXIST
Best Animation: MISFORTUNE
Best Documentary: Now I Am Old and Do Not Need the Moon
Best Cinematography: HIDDEN
Best Student Film: SOLD
Best Direction: LOG BRIDGE

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

HIDDEN, 16min., Turkey, Drama
Directed by Eda Arisov
A man forced to meet his nephew years later must confront what is hidden in his own story and make a decision. Uncle and nephew, whom life imposes the same difficulties, now have to face each other in the same place.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


THE LAST DINNER, 15min,. France, Drama
Directed by Marie-Ange Casalta
On a happy getaway weekend with his best friends, Simon finds out that there is going to be a nuclear attack in 20 minutes. He decides to not tell his friends so they can enjoy the last moments of their lives. But Simon is only human…

https://www.instagram.com/marieangecasaltaofficiel/
https://vimeo.com/romualdboulanger/thelastdinner

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


SOLD, 14min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Jennifer Li
A devoted friend must battle to escape, after seemingly sold to traffickers by her best friend.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


MISFORTUNE, 7min,. USA, Drama
Directed by Linda Kudzmas
Adapted from a Polish folktale, ‘Misfortune’ tells the story of two sisters; Marta the elder, and Zofia the younger. Marta is very rich, and lives in luxury. Zofia is very poor because Misfortune lives on her stove. Misfortune plagues Zofia, causing disasters that constantly keep her struggling to survive. When Zofia cleverly rids herself of Misfortune, Marta becomes jealous and risks everything to get Misfortune once again, living on Zofia’s stove.

https://friedegganimation.com/misfortune/index.html

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


Now I Am Old and Do Not Need the Moon, 12min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Dasha Bough
In a small Roma village deep in Moldova, an old woman named Daria lives in fear of the Russian-Ukrainian war at her doorstep. Mischievous kids, watchful babushki, and stray dogs surround her. Alone in her hut, she contemplates love, the Soviet Union, and the tragedy that derailed her life as a young woman. Her television set fills the silence.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


EXIST, 4min., USA, Drama
Directed by Niaz Parvaresh
Power of sorrow that guide you to exist .

https://www.facebook.com/Exist-113831020920824/
https://www.instagram.com/niaz.parvaresh/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


PISS ON PATRIARCHY, 10min., Germany, Drama
Directed by Lena Fakler
Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee urgently. But the toilet at the rest stop is broken. And an increasingly absurd odyssey through this toxic male biotope begins for Marie – and ends in blood.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


LOG BRIDGE, 12min., Hong Kong, Drama
Directed by Wai In Lam
Two female high school students went to play in the mountains after school, but their apparently close relationship was actually rife with power struggles, and after the illusion of their friendship was shattered, their conflicts eventually surfaced.

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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