HIGHLIGHTS: April 2025 Female Filmmakers Festival

A showcase of the best female directed films in the world today.

Audience Awards:
Best Film: Grounded: Creating Space for Black Peace
Best Direction: TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN
Best Performances: BLOOD IS THICKER
Best Micro-Short: IZZY

IZZY, 5min., Netherlands
Directed by Yfke van Berckelaer
Izzy is constantly stuck in the same cycle: mocked, dismissed, ignored, forgotten. But a touch of red glitter? Now that’s a game-changer!

http://www.makewayfilm.com/

https://www.instagram.com/makewayfilm/

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


BLOOD IS THICKER, 14min., USA
Directed by Melissa Skirboll
Two sisters living in the same city but completely different worlds reconnect over a meal. A mother suffering dementia pulls them back home but before they can return the trauma of their past must be addressed.

http://www.melissaskirboll.com/

https://instagram.com/melhypnoschick/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-blood-is-thicker-than-water


TALK TO ME LIKE THE RAIN, 15min. USA
Directed by Eloise Lola Gordon, Rose Trimboli
This is a story about the lies we tell in the name of love. In this adaptation of Tennesse Williams’ one-act “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Lie Here and Listen”, a couple grapples with opening up about their deepest desires while knowing that the truth of what they both want would hurt the other more than anything. This short film explores how people lie to themselves and each other in order to not feel the pain that the truth sometimes brings with it. In relationships, whether we minimize the gravity of a situation or deny ourselves the extent of our desires, it’s simpler to avoid honesty and stay in comfortable cycles than to face the unknown that comes with picking up and moving on.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-talk-to-me


Grounded: Creating Space for Black Peace, 38min., USA
Directed by Brittney Brackett
Grounded: Creating Space for Black Peace is a tragically poignant documentary ​short exploring how Black and Brown communities navigate mental health challenges, trauma, and the journey toward healing​, that foster​s peace and wellness.

https://allmylinks.com/bdynamicproductions
https://www.instagram.com/bbactress85/

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

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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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