Schedule
Quick Guide to Individual Films, Panels and Events
Join us for an incredible festival with world class films. Each of these films have been specially selected to give you a glimpse into the marvelous films that will screen this year.
Festival Schedule
Online Series
December 14th - 19th, 2021
Spotlight Feature Film
Feature Spotlight
A Place Among the Dead
Directed by: Juliet Landau
Running Time: 76m
Country: USA
A genre-bending art film, which explores the repercussions of growing up under the sway of narcissism and psychological abuse. In this revealing, terrifying, entirely scripted, meld of fact, fiction and the fantastical, actress / filmmaker “Jules,” driven by the demons of her past, embarks on a journey at the potential cost of everything she knows and loves.
Shorts Block 1
No Spectators Allowed
Directed by: Kanani Koster
Running Time: 16m
Country: USA
A true crime podcast host sits down with an indigenous women to record her sister’s cold case but their individual intentions for telling this story come to a head as they examine the night in question.
Farewell Symphony
Directed by: Xiwen Miao
Running Time: 23m
Country: USA and China
A woman’s journey from defying her family's gender expectations and migration to the United States, to her
life decades later after an accomplished career as a professional cellist.
What We Find In The Sea
Directed by: Anika Kan Grevstad & Sasha Faust
Running Time: 13m
Country: USA
Mia, an Asian-American teenager, navigates her transition into womanhood while working on a dangerous, fast-paced Alaskan fishing boat.
The Things I Tell You
Directed by: Daniela Silva
Running Time: 17m
Country: Mexico & Portugal
Daniela, feels alone and starts dating Diogo, a happy-go-lucky guy she meets on tinder. They get to know each other through the exploration of loneliness, love, and friendship, aware that they will soon part ways.
World Cup
Directed by: Maryam Khodabakhsh
Running Time: 18m
Country: Iran
On the night of a couple's migration, something happens, and then a secret is revealed…
Feature Film
Feature Spotlight
Short Years, Eternal Days
Directed by: Silvina Estévez
Running Time: 60m
Country: Argentina
Short years, eternal days, covers three years in the lives of different women including the director of this film, who tries to make an observational documentary about puerperium. But she soon discovers that this task, as motherhood, is more complex than she thought.
Shorts Block 2
Evelyn
Directed by: Isabella Andronos
Running Time: 5m
Country: Australia
A young girl challenges an online fairy party entertainer to prove that magic is real.
Devotee
Directed by: Sharmila Ray
Running Time: 17m
Country: USA
It’s 1979, James Do, a hitchhiker, encounters a group of hippies offering a lecture from a Guru that is visiting from India. James attends the meeting and is unimpressed by Sita the Guru.
Synchronized
Directed by: Corinne Manabat Cueva
Running Time: 6m
Country: USA
An experimental documentary short that embraces 5 women of color as they collectively reflect about their experiences living and thriving in Oakland. This will uncover their perspectives of what it means living in the Town, a city that’s ever-changing – from memories, dreams, home, and resiliency.
Cashback
Directed by: Isabella Andronos
Running Time: 8m
Country: USA
On her last night of work, a pregnant theater manager
and her longtime employee discover a bag of cash under
a seat and must decide what to do with it.
Telos
Directed by: Natalie Lavalley
Running Time: 15m
Country: USA
Danika designs a revolutionary probe after a chronic illness disqualifies her from space flight.
Changing Room
Directed by: Atefeh Rahmani
Running Time: 25m
Country: Iran
The girl, who has spent her income to help her sister
get married, realizes that her sister has exposed her
to her father.
Feature Film
Feature Spotlight
Any Given Day
Directed by: Margaret Byrne
Running Time: 93m
Country: USA
A filmmaker with mental illness follows three defendants through a specialized mental health probation program. While sharing their rarely seen struggles, she faces her own challenges, making clear just how precarious the ties between people with mental illness, their families and society can be.
Shorts Block 3
This Is Our Home
Directed by: A.K. Espada
Running Time: 14m
Country: Australia
When a bleeding-heart vegan and her pragmatic roommate's rodent infestation intensifies, they find themselves at odds regarding methods that are
inhumane yet effective.
Tabi Tabi Po
Directed by: Jenn Santos
Running Time: 2m
Country: USA
When a naive camper unknowingly disrespects the animistic world, she must run for her life to escape the vengeful grips of a menacing, mythical forest creature.
Diabla
Directed by: Ashley George
Running Time: 12m
Country: Mexico
After surviving assault, an enigmatic 17-year-old Mexican girl finds retribution through her untapped female power and local witch culture.
Depart
Directed by: Mathilde Suissa
Running Time: 9m
Country: USA
In the near future, there is a sudden evacuation that sections of the population must be ready for at any moment. During her group's departure, Lauren must rush against time to make her departure or risk being left behind.
Devil's in the Details
Directed by: Anna Owenson
Running Time: 4m
Country: USA
A witch gets less than she bargains for when she tries
to summon Satan on her ex-boyfriend. An animated
occult comedy.
Jung & Restless
Directed by: Joanna Priestley
Running Time: 6m
Country: USA
A meditative, dreamlike dive into the mythopoetic realm.
My Friends The Plants
Directed by: Christine Celozzi
Running Time: 10m
Country: USA
A mockumentary horror comedy depicting an awkward woman's difficulties being a familiar to vampire plants.
Jesus 2020
Directed by: Aude Thuries
Running Time: 24m
Country: France
Claire is given a mission that no one wants by her advertising agency: to dust off the communication of a small parish, Notre-Dame du Saint-Esprit.
Winter Series
March 19th - 21st, 2021
Spotlight Feature Film
Shorts Block
Feature Spotlight
Foreign Puzzle
Directed by: Chithra Jeyaram
Running Time: 69m
Country: USA
Foreign Puzzle is an intimate documentary that captures the journey of an inspiring Mexican American dancer as she communicates the impermanence of life through dance while juggling the roles of a recently divorced parent of a 6-year-old, a choreographer and a primary school teacher amidst intensive treatments for breast cancer.
DAME
Directed by: Foster Wilson
Running Time: 7m
Country: USA
A lost and grieving Elizabeth Taylor returns to work
after the tragic death of her husband Mike Todd and courageously delivers one of the greatest performances of her life.
SINGLE
Directed by: Ashley Eakin
Running Time: 14m
Country: USA
A girl born with one arm gets set up with a guy who has one hand - and she is pissed.
IN HOLLYWOODLAND
Directed by: Jessica Sherif
Running Time: 10m
Country: USA
A dark fantasy short film that follows Zodwa, a
struggling actress, as she heads to an exciting,
once-in-a lifetime audition and lands in a strange place reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's most famous work.
DETACH
Directed by: Frankie Ingrassia
Running Time: 14m
Country: USA
Denied a girls' night out, Sophia, a teenage influencer, pushes the limits of the mother-daughter relationship as she attempts to DETACH.
EGG PARTY
Directed by: Kersti Bryan
Running Time: 10m
Country: USA
In late spring, six powerhouse women gather together in
a Brooklyn apartment for a not-so-sober egg decorating party to support one of their own struggling with fertility. As the afternoon unfolds, the strength of their laughter
and friendship creates new birth.
BLACKNESS
Directed by: Khorshid Alami and Negar Najafzadeh
Running Time: 12m
Country: Iran
A little girl is waiting for her grandmother to come after a long time but when the grandmother comes she is not like what she imagined.
ANOTHER WORLD
Directed by: Esther Maloney
Running Time: 5m
Country: Canada
As an unknown force creates a shipwreck, the children who have grown up on that ship work together to build another world.
CHAMPAGNE
Directed by: Elizabeth Schiffler
Running Time: 18m
Country: USA
Champagne explores the experiences of a young chef striving to succeed in her career, stuck somewhere between finding her own way and learning how (and when) to ask for help when she needs it.