FEMALE Filmmakers Festival - March 15/16 event.
New Releases
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Comedy, Drama, Independent, Short Films
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Marie s'envole, 27min., France
Directed by Léa Sassi
Summer 1973. Marie, aged 26, goes off to spend a few days alone in her family's country house. She has to finish writing her thesis on "Jean Giono's mythical search of self". Caught between her duty and her desire to enjoy herself, she meets Antoinette. A beautiful, free-spirited young woman who inspires Marie to explore a whole new world of possibilities.
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CONTROLLO, 9min., USA
Directed by Caitlin Presberg
Based on the story of Lucy Rosati in Chicago 1921. After the police fail her, fifteen year old Lucy Rosati, decides to take justice into her own hands after being assaulted by her forty five year old neighbor.
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SPARK IN THE MEADOW, 17min.,
Directed by Bernardita Llanos
Spark in the Prairie (La Chispa en la Pradera) focuses on law student Sofía Brito and her experience of sexual harassment by her professor, a renown attorney and member of the Supreme Tribunal of Chile. Sofia was his research assistant and was working with him on the three exceptions to legalize abortion in the country. Sofa was at a crossroad between women's reproductive rights and her own experience of gender and sexual discrimination by the very man who could move forward the decriminalization of abortion.
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ALLIES, 13min., UK
Directed by Cong Xu
In the near future, with procreation a rarity and the government desperate to increase numbers, Maeve's pregnancy is a beacon of hope. Yet, in her joy, she's blind to a terrifying truth that threatens to unravel her world.
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