WINNERS: December 2025 Toronto FEMALE Film Festival

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

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Short Film: GOOD ADVICE
Best Direction: BEFORE THEY FORGET
Best Micro-Short Film: CAMERA AND BODY
Best Story: CODE-SWITCHED

BEFORE THEY FORGET, 8min., USA
Directed by Teresa Garza
In a dystopian future where families are torn apart, a mother is granted one annual reunion with a digital simulation of her child — a fragile ritual that tests the limits of memory and love.

CAMERA AND BODY, 4min., Slovenia
Directed by Andrejka Skračić
I dedicated my video to the camera and the body. I tried to tell my own story about a body trapped in chaos, silence, pain and helplessness. And about a camera that helped me free my body and find my authentic language.

https://instagram.com/andrejkaart/

CODE-SWITCHED, 5min., USA
Directed by Myrta Vida
A frustrated white-collar worker, a resigned Professor, and an aggrieved everyman, vie for a chance at the American Dream by denying their humanity and transforming their speech –all in a world that’s constantly surveilling them because they’re Black.

https://instagram.com/myrtavida

GOOD ADVICE, 4min., Canada
Directed by Barbara de la Fuente
Amanda is in a relationship that has her running off her feet and leaves her physically battered. Georgie, a stranger and well-intentioned busybody, encourages Amanda to share her pain in an earnest discussion that devolves into a comedy of errors.

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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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