Here is the line-up for the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival. Filmotomy’s Senior Editor Hannah Taylor and I watched every short film submitted, and determined after much discussion which films would be selected for the 2026 event, as well as where each short film would place.
Just to refresh, the Competition Selection is made up of recent enough short film releases, with the Showcase Selection being those out of competition and pre-season short films. Of course, with an amazing impact last year, we welcome back the Entrée Selection which is purely dedicated to student films. There are actually a select few student films that made it into the Competition Selection also on this occasion.
The feature films were curated over several months and many conversations. The feature films won’t necessarily be screened online as the short films will be, but they will certainly be part of the festival. There will be reviews, audio and video discussions, as well as encouragement for mutual online watch-alongs.
Please have a look at the following 61 films, and get ready to mark your calendars when we shortly present the screening guide for the short films. As well as all the details of what is to come during those 10 days between 14th and 23rd August. Congratulations to all the filmmakers and their teams, and can’t wait to see you at the 11th edition.
Competition Selection
- Beam Me Up (Roxana Stroe)
- Dirt (Isabella Speaight)
- En mille pétales / In Thousand Petals (Louise Bongartz)
- Fairground (Jess Berry)
- Fish (Ian Yarwood, Cara Mahoney)
- Ha nacido un niño / A Child Was Born (Kati Egely)
- I Felt Like Magic (Emma Josephson)
- Immaterial (Alexandra Healy)
- Loneliness Doesn’t Come Alone (Amanda Valle)
- Maybrick (Charlotte Rose Ainsworth, Lorna Lennon-Dalziel)
- Overlooked: A Silent Extinction (Cathy Ellington)
- Songs of Salt (Isabella Bazoni)
- Stick Bug (Wylie Anderson)
- Sukoun / Amplified (Dina Naser)
- Swim Sistas (Catherine Joy White)
- Winter in March (Natalia Mirzoyan)
- Wormholes (Vanessa Bailey)
Showcase Selection
- Arash The Archer (Shaghayevh Nozari)
- The Call Centre (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
- Cautivas / Captive Women (Itxaso Díaz)
- Cicada (Roxana Stroe)
- Come Lucciole / As Fireflies (Giulia Badalassi)
- Despite Everything (Anita Amarachi)
- Julie Takes a Walk (Frankie Pedersen, Shea Vassar)
- The Lover (Cadenza Zhao)
- Non Ad Locum (Amanda Lago)
- The Shadow (Kyran Townley, Arrianna Leigh)
- Tend and Keep (Dayna Reggero)
- Ubiquitous (Masha Maroutitch)
Entrée Selection
- Bristol One City – Working Together For Bristol’s Future (Aditi Ganesh, Peri Hammond)
- Filter (Sarah Imtiyaz Murtaza)
- The High Road (Cheyenne Christie)
- Invisible Difference (Emma Louise Shadbolt)
- L’Audition (Lilinaz Hakimi)
- Long Term Care (Arin Hincer)
- Modern Masturbation Allegory (Xinyi LI)
- Nun’s Beach (Kate diRienzi)
- O Arhontas tou Ethnikou Kipou / The Lord of the National Garden (Dimitra Tsialou)
- R3D@CTED (Georgia Olivia Wood)
- Scroll or Stroll (Lita Segal, Ceri Gavins)
- Wuthered (Sophie Brownlow)
Feature Film Curation
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
- All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
- Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
- Apocalipse nos Trópicos (Petra Costa)
- The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)
- Den stygge stesøsteren (Emilie Blichfeldt)
- Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
- In die Sonne schauen (Mascha Schilinski)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
- Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud)
- Les Plages d’Agnès (Agnès Varda)
- Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir)
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (Sepideh Farsi)
- Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)
- The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
- The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
- Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour)
- Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
- Wuthering Heights (Emerald Fennell)
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