HIGHLIGHTS: May 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: IF IT COULD HAPPEN TO ME, IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
Best Short Film: PRANK’D
Best Direction: ANNE
Best Story: MELIORA
Best Performances: SCREAMING SILENCE
Best Cinematography: MOURNING
Best Documentary: EVA HALLER: A WORK IN PROGRESS

See info for each film:

MELIORA, 20min,. Estonia
Directed by Kristin Hildebrand
Emma is a perfectionistic painter with a rich husband and great style. But it soon becomes clear that her perfect life is merely an illusion. Emma is forced to navigate self-doubt, jealousy and to face the darkest parts of herself. Her repressed emotions come to life in the form of a Monster, who shows no mercy to those who have wronged her. In the end, Emma must choose between staying in her gilded cage or facing the Monster.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32384134/

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SCREAMING SILENCE, 17min., UK
Directed by Kalyn Elizabeth Wood, Hal Waghorn
In the hauntingly enigmatic and dialogue-free short film, ‘Screaming Silence’, Elizabeth, a young woman in the aftermath of a traumatic event, navigates her world through a haunting soundscape of everyday noises, which ‘peoples’ her world and forces her to face her reality of circumstances and her fear of reaching out for help. As the audience intimately experiences her journey, Elizabeth’s silence becomes a bittersweet force, echoing the profound emotional depth that empowers her to move forward in an altruistic twist of an ending.

https://www.screamingsilencefilm.com/

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PRANK’D, 13min., USA
Directed by Mitra Goodwin
When a by -the-book lawyer allows a prank war to escalate and spiraling occur. The lines of law, ethics and office humor blur.

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ANNE, 18min., UK
Directed by Lia Tasoudi
Riki’s world is turned upside down when she uncovers a dark secret within her company. With only her friend Anne by her side, she must confront Xenia, the founder’s niece, and expose her scheme. But as the truth is revealed, Riki’s relationship with Anne is pushed to the brink. Can Riki find the strength to fight for what she deserves, or will her friendship with Anne be her downfall?

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MOURNING, 7min., Ireland
Directed by Jackie Walsh
A young woman’s search for her missing dog leads to a shocking discovery.

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EVA HALLER: A WORK IN PROGRESS, 51min., USA
Directed by Jeanne Meyers
A feature documentary a life time in making about the remarkable Eva Haller. She has touched the lives of women, children and artists around the world with her commitment to making every day count. At 93 she has survived just barely covid, the holocaust, and became a force for positive change in the world – in her early days supporting her brother an anti fascist in Nazi occupied Hungary during WW2. A refugee, bride, single mother raising a son in Ecuador and finding hope and opportunity in New York City.

https://myhero.com/Eva

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IF IT COULD HAPPEN TO ME, IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU, 91min., USA
Directed by Gwendolyn G Cassady
Our expository documentary helps raise awareness to the social implications of the currently unhoused.

http://www.ifitcouldhappen.com/
https://www.facebook.com/people/If-It-Could-Happen-to-Me-It-Could-Happen-to-You/61551854642103/
https://instagram.com/ManagingLove

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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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