HIGHLIGHTS: March 2025 Female Filmmakers Festival

A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today!

Best SHORT FILM: FLÜGGE
Best PERFORMANCES: serpentine
Best DIRECTION: Scattered Flowers
Best STUDENT Film: Am I Still Beautiful?
Best STORY: Another Saturday
Best MICR0-SHORT: Pirate Jenny
Best VISUAL DESIGN: Sequoia

See full details of each film:

Sequoia, 15min., Switzerland
Directed by Michelle Künzler
Sequoia, a diligent AI maid, works for the captivating yet mysterious Mrs. Terrance. Although not designed to harbor any emotions, Sequoia starts developing sentience, when a certain sound triggers a feeling inside her that feels oddly familiar – and human. Forced to conceal her newfound emotions to evade shutdown, Sequoia embarks on a dangerous quest for truth, tearing at the seams of her own identity and re-evaluating the intricate power dynamics that govern her place within the household.

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https://www.instagram.com/sequoia_shortfilm/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sequioia

Pirate Jenny, 5min., Italy
Directed by Elisabetta DeLuca, Alessandro Freschi
A hotel maid has a very particular story to tell us…

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-pirate-jenny

Another Saturday, 14min., USA
Directed by J.A. DellaRipa
A young teenager decides to enjoy a day of fun with her crush only to return home to find her worst fears realized.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-another-saturday

Am I Still Beautiful?, 8min., USA
Directed by Tara Sekana Zulfikar
Fourteen-year-old Malaya is the quintessential tomboy who loves baggy pants and hanging out with boys. However, her world of familial expectation and rough friendships collide on the day of her birthday party, when she is forced to prove her masculinity once and for all in order to defend her best friend and secret crush, Ali.

https://www.tarazulfikar.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tara_zulfikar/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-am-i-still-beautiful

Scattered Flowers, 23min, USA
Directed by Raquel Gardner
The bond between sisters is tested in this short film that explores the definition of family and the sacrifices we make—as well as the secrets we keep—to protect the ones we love.

https://www.instagram.com/scatteredflowers_shortfilm/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-scattered-flowers

serpentine, 19min., USA
Directed by Annie Young, Madeline Mack
After leaving an abusive relationship, a woman seeks refuge with a trauma treatment facility that promises healing. But as she learns more about their treatment methods, she starts to realize that the organization’s motivations may be far more sinister than they seem.


https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-serpentine

FLÜGGE, 25min., Germany
Directed by Leopold Schraudolph, Dani Rose Cortés
In an Austrian mountain village in 1914, the determined Amelie (20) must defy her father’s wishes of running the family sewing business to pursue her own dreams of flight and seize her only chance at finding true freedom.


https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-flugge

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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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