WINNER: May 2026 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival

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

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS (from FEEDBACK Film Festival):
Best Film: THE PAUSE
Best Performances: LET’S GO
Best Visual Design: ISABELLE
Best Direction: DEEP CLEAN
Best Micro-Short Film: APOLLO AND DAPHNE

ISABELLE, 4min., USA
 Directed by Annie Kloppenberg
Isabelle Johnson (1901-1992): artist, rancher, teacher. In this film, three young women imagine her ghostly presence, re-inhabiting the very land she loved, their action framed by Patrick Dougherty’s fantastical installation that weaves local willows–the lines with which he draws–into new spaces as chambers to house our collective imagination.

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

THE PAUSE, 17min., UK
 Directed by Samantha Grierson
After losing her job and her sense of identity, Charlie begins to feel as though her life has turned into a horror film she never auditioned for.

https://instagram.com/the_programme_2024

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-pause

LET’S GO, 10min., USA
 Directed by Siggi Jung
Depressed divorcee who also lost her furry best friend unexpectedly finds strength and purpose in an impulsive rescue.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-lets-go-female

DEEP CLEAN, 6min., USA
 Directed by Lisa Frank
A woman deep cleans her house, no mess left unclean.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-deep-clean

APOLLO AND DAPHNE, 3min., USA
 Directed by Minglu DU
Apollo and Daphne is a clay-and-paper stop-motion animation that re-examines a canonical myth by attending to what is often obscured within its familiar telling. Instead of framing Apollo’s pursuit as an emblem of divine love, the work foregrounds the anxiety and coercive power embedded in this scene of chase and metamorphosis.

https://www.instagram.com/duminglu_art

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-apollo-and-daphne

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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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