HIGHLIGHTS: January 2024 Female Festival Showcase

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

Best Short Form Short Film: PORTRAIT OF CONSUMPTION
Best Long Form Short Film: SEEDS: Planting Hope Through Education
Best Story: SAM AND JESS
Best Direction: WANDA
Best Student Film: YOU WON’T GET FAR ENOUGH ALONE
Best Experimental Film: MUTE

SAM AND JESS, 12min., New Zealand
Directed by Nina Katungi
Neighbours, Sam and Jess, are both aware of each other’s existence but incapable of expressing their feelings and actually meeting… until one day, a touch of fate gives them a helping hand.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100070098998843

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

YOU WON’T GET FAR ENOUGH ALONE, 20min., Switzerland
Directed by Aiyana De Vree
After a traumatic experience, Kiana finds herself in a group of underground fighters. A community in which she can slowly regain her self-determination.

https://www.navada.productions/creatives-aiyana-de-vree
https://www.instagram.com/aiyanadevree

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

WANDA, 21min., Poland
Directed by Anna Baumgart
In 1948 on the Gardno lake near Szela village 21 girl scouts drowned. It was supposed to be a dream day. The girls wanted to see the sea. That morning they went to church, sleep-deprived – the previous night they had sat for a long time by the bonfire, busy discussing an old legend about princess Wanda who drowned in the rapid currents of Vistula river. Two adult chaperones and two men got into two boats with them. Nobody knows what really happened – was it an unfortunate accident, a murder or a collective suicide of teenagers? The essay is a fictional version of this event. Did the girls turn into seals and swim to the sea, to another future?

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

PORTRAIT OF CONSUMPTION, 8min., Canada
Directed by Gillian Fortin
Portrait Of Consumption is a story about the human collective socializing alone; each struggling for acceptance on the world stage of social media.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2420972/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
https://www.instagram.com/alimashayehki/?hl=en

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

MUTE, 17min., Mexico
Directed by Andrea Borbolla
Luisa, an opera singer, loses her voice after a breakup. This leads her into her deepest and darkest self. She will have to heal from the inside inorder to be reborn and find her voice back.

https://cultura.unam.mx/
https://www.instagram.com/andreacontigo/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SEEDS: Planting Hope Through Education, 37min., Australia
Directed by Cameron D’Arcy
‘SEEDS’, Planting Hope Through Education is a heartwarming documentary which follows Annabelle, Janepher and Brenda – three remarkable women on a mission to provide the most vulnerable children in Uganda with a quality education.

https://seedsdocumentary.schoolforlife.org.au/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

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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