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In January 2023 we come back with the seventh edition of our biennial. We are opening the call to submit to the official selection. Feature films and short films of fiction, documentary, animation and video creation directed by women.
On December 9, 2020, the poster of the VI Biennial International Woman and Film, created by the artist Eva Bello was publicly presented.
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 12’32” | SPAIN | 2020 DIRECTOR Mónica Zamora CAST Cristina Oliva Quique González Fran de la Torre Sonia Sahuquillo Sergio Escribano Irina Bargues Rebeca Artal-Dato SYNOPSIS Are we really connected? The short film questions the effectiveness… Continue Reading →
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 15’| GERMANY | 2019 DIRECTOR Cristina Tournatzes CAST Ovanes Torosyan Yordan Danchev Zainab Alsawah Bader Khlifi Nóra Mohi SYNOPSIS On August 26th, 2015 a convoy of human smugglers lets 71 refugees packed in a truck suffocate… Continue Reading →
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 15’ | ICELAND | 2019 DIRECTOR Anna Karin Lárusdotti CAST Hafrún Arna Johanes- Lísa Dóttir Birta Mubaraka – Brindís SYNOPSIS Lísa is fifteen years old and quite different from other girls her age. She has isolated… Continue Reading →
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 15’ | FRANCE | 2018 DIRECTOR Chabname Zariab CAST BEHZAD MAHAQ: Ramine SYRUS SHAHIDI: Le Garde REDA LAJEL: Le Garde SYNOPSIS Somewhere in the desert, a little boy is plunged by force into an intimidating and… Continue Reading →
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 11’ | NEDERLAND | 2017 DIRECTOR Eva M. C. Zanen CAST AD VAN KEMPEN, Sjaak BIANCA VAN DER SCHOOT, hermana 1 ROOSMARIJN VAN BOHEMEN, hermana 2 SYNOPSIS 76 year old Sjaak tries to write a speech… Continue Reading →
SHORT FICTIONAL FILM | 13’ | QATAR | 2018 DIRECTOR Amal Al-Muftah CAST Amna – Al Jori Al Darwish Sultan – Mohammed Al Hosani Mahla – M.A. Lazordi Abdulrahman – Ahmed Al Hosani SYNOPSIS Upon hearing a myth about falling… Continue Reading →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 70’ | COLOMBIA |2018 DIRECTOR Marta Hincapié Uribe SYNOPSIS The memories of an atypical family, in a typical and conventional place in Medellín-Colombia, make a portrait of the last 50 years of violence in the country…. Continue Reading →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 50’ | GERMANY | 2019 DIRECTOR Anne Scheschonk SYNOPSIS At the age of 12 Maya lost all of her hair. Within a couple of weeks she turned completely bald. The diagnosis: Alopecia areata. Two years later… Continue Reading →
FICTION FEATURE FILM| 93’ | SPAIN | 2020 DIRECTOR Lara Izagirre Garizurieta CAST Ane Pikaza Héctor Alterio Ramón Barea Klara Badiola SYNOPSIS Nora is 30 years old, she lives with her Argentinean grandfather Nicolás and she regularly takes care of… Continue Reading →
FICTION FEATURE FILM | 99’ | GREECE | 2018 DIRECTOR Maria Lafi CAST Nena Menti Luli Bitri Anastasia Rafaela Konidi Samuel Akinola SYNOPSIS “Holy Boom” is a drama feature film with multiple storylines, taking place in a multicultural area of… Continue Reading →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 1H 22’ | SPAIN | 2020 DIRECTOR Ilaria Gambarelli SYNOPSIS Lorenzo Riva, a world famous Italian fashion designer and Luigi Valietti, his collaborator and ex-partner in life, fight to reconquest the heights of haute couture in… Continue Reading →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 92’ | NEDERLAND |2020 DIRECTOR Maartje Nevejan SYNOPSIS ARE YOU THERE? A poetic journey deep into inner space, regarding absence epilepsy. Having had absences herself as a child, director Nevejan challenges the scientific paradigm that no… Continue Reading →
FICTION FEATURE FILM | 73’ | HUNGARY | 2019 DIRECTOR Linda Dombrovsky CAST Ildikó Hámori Anna Györgyi Rémusz Szikszai Sándor Terhes Zsolt Kovács SYNOPSIS Anna, an elderly, village woman, is widowed. Her daughter, a big city doctor, believes that the… Continue Reading →
FICTION FEATURE FILM | 110’ | GERMANY – JAPAN | 2019 DIRECTOR Doris Dörrie CAST Golo Euler: “Karl” Aya Irizuki: “Yu” Kiki Kirin: “Yu’s Grandmother” Hannelore Elsner: “Trudi” Elmar Wepper: “Rudi” Felix Eitner: “Klaus” Floriane Daniel: “Emma” Birgit Minichmayr: “Karolin”… Continue Reading →
FICTION FEATURE FILM | 79’| CHINA | 2018 DIRECTORA Wen Li CAST Jialei Fan Mochen Wang Yuan Shunlin Wu SYNOPSIS After falling into sleep, Jiang, a young painter, finds himself in a Taogu village where he meets a mute girl,… Continue Reading →
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM | 1H 15’ | EEUU | 2018 DIRECTOR Maxine Trump SYNOPSIS There is still an assumption that choosing not to have children is weird, selfish, or somehow wrong. Filmmaker Maxine Trump turns the camera on herself as… Continue Reading →