Canada202319 minEnglish, ArabicAboriginal + Indigenous, Available Online, Directed By Women, Drama

Together, Nawal, a young Palestinian woman, and Tanya, an older Indigenous woman, start a guerrilla garden on the lawn of their apartment building and battle middle management to make it to harvest.

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Directors Bio

*Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller

Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller is a mixed-race Palestinian Canadian filmmaker whose work explores themes of fragmented identity, grief, and post-traumatic growth, through “oh no, should I laugh?” comedy.

IN PERSON: This film is scheduled to be presented fully captioned (all dialogue subtitled + sound cues indicated)

Ireland, Malaysia202423 minMalay, English, MandarinDirected By Women, Drama, Horror

Set in Malaysia's National Service training camp, Jia Hui, a female ethnic-Chinese trainee, is commanded by her teacher to lead her multiracial female comrades in washing stained sanitary pads in the middle of the night.

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Directors Bio

Mickey Lai

Born in Malaysia, Mickey Lai is a filmmaker who graduated with a master of film and TV production at MetFilm School in London. Lai is interested in telling stories about diverse cultural values, mortality, and self-identity.

Singapore202410 minMandarin, English Animation, Available Online, Comedy, Directed By Women, Drama

Grace Lee, an overworked mom in Singapore, collapses at work. She gets admitted into the hospital, where she finds newfound freedom as a patient.

This film is scheduled to be presented with subtitles for all spoken dialogue (no sound cues indicated)

Directors Bio

Calleen Koh

Calleen Koh is a Singaporean BAFTA-nominated animation filmmaker, currently at CalArts for the experimental animation MFA programme. Enamoured by dark comedy, her films are known for their subversively irreverent energy.

USA202413 minEnglish, Tagalog2slgbtq+, Available Online, Directed By Women, Drama

Yaya and Louie, two baby goths, prepare to summon the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, but a series of unexpected obstacles jeopardize the entire spooky spectacle — and maybe even their friendship.

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Directors Bio

Andrea A. Walter

Andrea A. Walter is a British Filipino filmmaker whose work premiered at SXSW and Inside Out. They are a 2024 Women in Film Cinematography fellow and mentored by Lilly Wachowski.

Myanmar202310 minBurmeseAnimation, Available Online, Directed By Women, Experimental

Photographic sequences painted with golds and greys animate the guilt from a childhood incident of killing an ant while washing hands in the sink, reflecting the realms of cosmos, power, guilt, prayers, and existence.

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Directors Bio

Moe Myat May Zarchi

Moe Myat May Zarchi is a filmmaker, cultural practitioner, and audiovisual artist from Myanmar whose practice spans 10 years.

Canada202410 MinEnglish2slgbtq+, Available Online, Directed By Women, Documentary, Experimental

This experiential and textural short film invites viewers into the inner workings of a mind, to ponder how we love and unlove ourselves.

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Directors Bio

*Tara Hakim & Hannah Hull

Tara Hakim is a Palestinian Jordanian multidisciplinary artist whose public displays of vulnerability invite the viewer to meditate on notions of self, multicultural identities, and spaces in between — both physically and mentally.

Hannah Hull (they/them) is an artist and musician, also known as Burning Salt. The ancient practice of “burning salt” is an act of expulsion, purification or protection.

USA202411 MinEnglishAvailable Online, Directed By Women, Drama

Two friends living in Mānoa Valley spend a summer day together before one of them moves to New York City.

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Directors Bio

Emily May Jampel

Emily May Jampel is a director from Honolulu based in New York City. Her films have played at festivals around the world, including Palm Springs, Aspen Shortsfest, Champs-Élysées, and Outfest.

Canada202416 MinEnglishAvailable Online, Directed By Women, Drama, History

On the evening of the 1987 "Easter Epic" hockey playoff game, a young Cambodian girl grapples with her Canadian identity in a small town in rural Ontario.

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Directors Bio

Alejandro Yoshizawa & Y-Dang Troeung

Alejandro Yoshizawa is a Vancouver-based filmmaker specializing in grassroots and marginalized people’s stories, oral histories, and community documentaries.

Y-Dang Troeung (張依蘭) (ទ្រឿងអ៊ីដាង) was a writer and scholar based in Vancouver, who passed away in fall 2022 of pancreatic cancer.

USA202414 MinFarsi, EnglishAvailable Online, Directed By Women, Drama, Experimental, Romance

On a seemingly prosaic day, Bita, an Iranian woman with terminal cancer, comes to grips with her changing relationships with her family as life transforms and slips away.

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Directors Bio

*Sara Boutorabi

Sara Boutorabi is an Iranian American filmmaker based in New York City, and originally from California. She graduated from UC Berkeley and is an MFA candidate in screenwriting at Columbia University.

Taiwan20239 MinMandarinAnimation, Available Online, Directed By Women, Family-friendly, Music

Returning to a house that holds nothing, a mother misses her own mother.

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Directors Bio

*Ji-Tian Li

Ji-Tian Li graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts and participated in the AVU exchange program in Prague in 2021, focusing on materials and installations. She is now a full-time artist exploring space through gardening, ceramics, painting, music, and performance.