Women + Film Festival '25

This year’s carefully curated lineup includes outstanding features, shorts, and documentaries celebrating female filmmakers behind the camera and stories of women on the screen. These are also paired with exciting events and important community conversations. Tickets are now on sale!

WISH YOU WERE HERE (dir. Julia Stiles): This romantic directorial debut from Julia Stiles about how one night can change everything.

TIME AND OTHER MATERIALS (dir. Amie Knox): This lyrical documentary takes you into the studios of five Colorado artists as they explore the essence of creation itself.

SALLY (dir. Cristina Costantini): Dive into the personal life of America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride, with this new documentary about the sacrifices she made for this accomplishment. *Opening Night Presentation.

FAMILIAR TOUCH (dir. Sarah Friedland): A new leisurely-paced yet insightful dramedy about the changes of life with aging and memory.

FEMALE PERVERSIONS (dir. Susan Streitfeld): Catch Academy Award© winner Tilda Swinton’s US film debut in this provocative, feminist cult classic about power, desire, and unraveling identity.

WOMEN+FILM SHORTS PROGRAM – Films and presentations include Alicia K. Harris’s On a Sunday at Eleven, Natalia García Agraz’s Passarinho, Torill Kove’s Maybe Elephants, Nour Ben Salem and Julien Menanteas’s Palestine Islands, Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green’s Camp Widow, and Chelsea Christer’s Out for Delivery.

MY FAVOURITE CAKE (dir. Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha): A charming romantic yet whimsical tale of a seventy-year-old widow set in Tehran.

MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE (dir. Shoshannah Stern): A new documentary and reflection in ASL from Academy Award© winner Marlee Matlin on fame, identity, and the legacy of being a Deaf pioneer in Hollywood.

ON FALLING (dir. Laura Carreira): Follow a Portuguese migrant as she seeks to resist the loneliness and alienation while finding meaning and connection

A MOTHER APART (dir. Laurie Townshend): A remarkable story of healing and forgiveness about Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin and her journey of motherhood.

THE LIBRARIANS (dir. Kim A. Snyder): Go onto the front lines in Texas as librarians fight the threat of book bans, and our rights to democracy and free access to information. *Closing Night Presentation.