HIGHLIGHTS: February 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:

Best Short Form Short Film: CONTROLLO
Best Long Form Short Film: Marie s’envole
Best Story: ALLIES
Best Direction: SPARK IN THE MEADOW
Best Performances: THE FINGER AND THE MOON

THE FINGER AND THE MOON, 19min., Italy
Directed by Rossella Bergo
Tommaso, a 28-year-old boy, lives in an old country house isolated from the world, with Bianca the seamstress mother, now a widow for many years.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

Marie s’envole, 27min., France
Directed by Léa Sassi
Summer 1973. Marie, aged 26, goes off to spend a few days alone in her family’s country house. She has to finish writing her thesis on “Jean Giono’s mythical search of self”. Caught between her duty and her desire to enjoy herself, she meets Antoinette. A beautiful, free-spirited young woman who inspires Marie to explore a whole new world of possibilities.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CONTROLLO, 9min., USA
Directed by Caitlin Presberg
Based on the story of Lucy Rosati in Chicago 1921. After the police fail her, fifteen year old Lucy Rosati, decides to take justice into her own hands after being assaulted by her forty five year old neighbor.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

SPARK IN THE MEADOW, 17min.,
Directed by Bernardita Llanos
Spark in the Prairie (La Chispa en la Pradera) focuses on law student Sofía Brito and her experience of sexual harassment by her professor, a renown attorney and member of the Supreme Tribunal of Chile. Sofia was his research assistant and was working with him on the three exceptions to legalize abortion in the country. Sofa was at a crossroad between women’s reproductive rights and her own experience of gender and sexual discrimination by the very man who could move forward the decriminalization of abortion.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

ALLIES, 13min., UK
Directed by Cong Xu
In the near future, with procreation a rarity and the government desperate to increase numbers, Maeve’s pregnancy is a beacon of hope. Yet, in her joy, she’s blind to a terrifying truth that threatens to unravel her world.

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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