HIGHLIGHTS: October 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award:
Best Feature Film: NDAZKOH
Best Short Film: I’M NOT A ROBOT
Best Direction: LAND MASS
Best Story: THERAPY TIES
Best Experimental Film: AN UNDOING
Best Documentary: GIEROGI APPA

See info for each film:

THERAPY TIES, 30min., USA
Directed by Christine Evette Giles
The effects of Wanda’s unresolved childhood trauma forces a tsunami of events to take place in the her family. This leaves her husband, Malcolm, as the primary caretaker of two children, one of which has a disability. Traditional and nontraditional therapy becomes the epicenter of their daily life.

https://doc.storydoc.com/DJgAFJ

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NDAZKOH, 64min,. Canada
Directed by Tracey April Cochrane
A documentary about a first nations community showing Strength, forgiveness and resilience.

https://www.facebook.com/calminchaosptsd/

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LAND MASS, 48min,. UK
Directed by Jenni Roditi, Sara Pozin
A new kind of liturgy is about to begin… a Land Mass. This is a spontaneous, vocal-visual liturgy for the land, sung by a unique choir, The Improvisers’ Choir, conducted by composer Jenni Roditi, who is creating her conducting directions as the improvised music is sung.

http://www.theimproviserschoir.com/landmass
https://www.facebook.com/ticsingers
https://twitter.com/ticsingers
https://www.instagram.com/ticsingers

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I’M NOT A ROBOT, 20min., Netherlands
Directed by Victoria Warmerdam
After repeatedly failing Captcha tests, music producer Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: could she be a robot?

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AN UNDOING, 10min., USA
Directed by Lyall F. Harris
In this 9-minute and 55-second experimental film, viewers are taken on a journey of “undoing” as the film’s author-protagonist unstitches her way to healing and catharsis, one stitch at a time, after the end of an abusive 20-year marriage. The subject: their wedding garments.

http://www.lyallharris.com/https://www.instagram.com/lyall_harris

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GIEROGI APPA, 16min., USA
Directed by Yeonwoo Kim
The meaning of “Gireogi Appa” is a South Korean term that refers to a man who works in Korea while his wife and children stay in an English-speaking country such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand for the sake of their children’s education. This video is about the documentary of the Gireogi Appa, which is my dad and shows the relationship between me and my dad.

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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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