WINNERS: October 2025 Toronto FEMALE Film Festival

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

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Short Film: CHOICES
Best Direction: GLORY OBSCURED
Best Story: WHERE IS HOME?
Best Documentary: The Inner Curriculum (Creating Socially Conscious Changemakers)

Glory Obscured, 13min., USA
Directed by L. Elleseg
When An Angel Walks Into A Bar… Ran By A Demon…

http://www.glory-obscured.com/

https://www.instagram.com/charlie.t.savage

Where Is Home?
Directed by Zara Darvish
A young Persian girl leaves everything behind to follow her dream of searching for the meaning of home, and ultimately realizing, that home may not be a place, but something she carries within herself.

http://www.lawrencewhitener.com/

CHOICES, 21min., UK
Directed by Aline Jewell
An actor faces the dilemma of going back to her roots in Austria in pursuit of her vocation and belonging or staying in the UK for love. ‘To be or not to be’ is the question within the question: ‘Is love as important as belonging?’

The Inner Curriculum (Creating Socially Conscious Changemakers), 40min., Canada
Directed by Sangita Iyer
Set in the heart of Bangalore, The Inner Curriculum is an intimate documentary that follows a visionary couple who have dedicated their lives to transforming education and leadership in India. Through their pioneering initiatives, EFIL (Education for Integrating Life) Ltd and EQUBE, a program they have created is redefining how young minds engage with the world, blending emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and social responsibility into the core of learning. The film traces their journey, from personal struggles and insights to the evolution of a unique inner curriculum that empowers students, teachers, and organizations to become conscious change-makers. Through candid interviews, immersive classroom moments, and reflections from those impacted by their work, The Inner Curriculum invites viewers to rethink what education can truly mean in a world that needs heartful leadership more than ever.

https://www.instagram.com/mettlefilms

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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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