WINNERS: August 2025 Toronto FEMALE Film Festival

A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today!

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Short Film: Obedience
Best Visual Design: Cycle of Emotions
Best Story: Dis-connected
Best Direction: The Taste of Pork Belly

Cycle Of Emotions, 6min, Greece
Directed by Natasha Smyrnaiou
In a hidden search…
In the complex stages of exploration that the Soul goes through…
Through the emotions…
Discovers…
Accepts…
Learns…
Evolves…
Getting Free…
Pictures, music and movement…
In a film art video performance of 6’.

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Dis-connected, 10min., Spain
Directed by Estela del Carmen
Andrea is a girl addicted to her cell phone, until one day she is forced to live a day without him.

Obedience, 12min., Spain
Directed by Maria Carmen Sánchez
A girl is kidnapped by a couple of men, who claim to be vampires.

The Taste of Pork Belly, 20min., Taiwan
Directed by Sophie Shui
The preschooler A-Mao spends his days fooling around and exploring with his little sister and his buddy A-Bao. When they are hungry, there are sweet potatoes and snails to eat, and from time to time A-Mao can also eat some of the pork belly that his mother has gotten as a “gift.” A-Mao’s childhood is free and happy.

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