HIGHLIGHTS: November 2023 Toronto Female Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

Best Short FIlm: TRACES OF MEMORY
Best Direction: A CHANCE
Best Performances: DIGGING OUT
Best Cinematography: DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Best Sound & Music: SUNGAZER MUSIC VIDEO

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

DARKNESS AND LIGHT, 3min., Italy
Directed by Alessia Ambrosini
Nighttime. A middle-aged woman is walking fast. A young man follows her. The woman notices it, panics, and speeds up her pace. She is about to cross a street when a car speeds up. Her pursuer leaps, overtakes her, and plants himself in front of the vehicle, thus saving the woman from a fatal accident. But that’s not all. Images play with the spectator; they mislead and surprise him until they lead him to an unimaginable ending.

https://filmitalia.org/it/film/169110/
https://www.facebook.com/BUIO-e-LUCE-cortometraggio-105516068506959/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

DIGGING OUT, 5min., USA
Directed by Lara Britton
Trapped in the trauma of her past and haunted by the voice of her abusive partner, a woman sorts through a wall of boxes in an old, rusty shipping container. With each box she discards, the voice gets louder, the effect of chronic abuse, until she uncovers a long-hidden artifact that sparks long-suppressed memories of who she once was, forcing her to confront her past in order to move on to the future.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SUNGAZER MUSIC VIDEO, 5min., USA
Directed by Alexandra Aristy
Music video for the song “Sungazer” by Sub:om.

https://sub-om.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SUBOMband
https://www.instagram.com/subomband

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

TRACES OF MEMORY, 14min,. USA
Directed by Jody Jaress
A woman’s mind fractured, and what happens when she no longer can differentiate between her reality … and the truth.

http://www.tracesofmemorythefilm.com/https://www.facebook.com/tracesofmemorythefilm/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

A CHANCE, 16min., USA
Directed by Jillie Simon, Ange Arabatzis
When Mia and Caroline reunite in a city park, they soon find out that the past is not always quite past. Conflicts are resurrected, sparks fly – and then things get complicated.

http://www.facebook.com/AChancehttps://instagram.com/jilliesimon

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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