Festival Filministes 2025
For its 8th edition, taking place from March 5 to 16, the Filministes Festival once again presents a program entirely dedicated to the cinema and art of underrepresented people, both in front of and behind the camera. This year, we are featuring short films under the theme In Solidarity, Always.
To be feminist is, above all, to stand in solidarity with everyone and to recognize the multiplicity of struggles and perspectives. With these films, we aim to highlight various forms of care, mutual aid, community, and support—to reflect on what unites us and what makes us stronger, together.
— The Filministes Team
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Discover on Tënk a selection of short films available for free access from the Filministes Festival,
as well as some of the award-winning films from the latest edition!
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Marie & me
This documentary explores a young woman’s journey to reconstruct her identity and confront her tumultuous past as an escort. It is a portrait of deep-seated trauma viewed through a lens of compassion and empathy. This is Mary’s journey: a dazzlingly compelling tale that offers a glimmer of hope in a world filled with darkness.
Le petit panier à roulettes
Living on a shoestring in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 discount laundry detergents that she's been refused at a grocery store.
Like a Spiral
_Like a Spiral_ is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women's voices rise through the film's grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst for existence. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life's spiral, they lift themselves ...
Hello Stranger
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the story of her gender reassignment journey. Piecing together her memories, from her childhood in a small fishing village through her tumultuous medical process, Cooper attempts to make peace with the last male imprint remaining on her body: that annoying deep voice that sticks to her skin.
Mothers & Monsters
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? _Mothers & Monsters_ is a surrealist satire about modern-day maternity and the ideal of the family at a time where capitalism ha...
Hey Little One
Combining drawing and collage, the animated film _Hey Little One_ explores the intensity of the attachment bond between Edna, a hospitalized baby, and her parents' pair of friends who regularly rock her in the hospital.
Dear Oscarz
_Dear Oscarz_ is a correspondence between the desire to create and life that swallows you up. Something like that.
47 pouces
One night, 7-year-old Zélie sees her young Aunt Clara arrive at the family home. Clara is sad, doesn't leave the room and wears bandages on her wrists. Faced with the mystery of this closed door, Zélie realizes that all she has to do to get her aunt out of her melancholy is to help her dispel the clouds in her head...
Sylvie en liberté
Sylvie’s out of jail and back in town. She secretly visits her mother, trying to convince her to leave her violent husband. Facing her mother's refusal, Sylvie stays determined to enjoy every second of her new freedom. She rides her old chopper bicycle across the dirt roads, gets drunk, and thinks about kidnapping a neglected dog. But one thing is on Sylvie's mind: seeing her old lover, Coyote....
Never Fully Naked
_Never Fully Naked_ is a full, authentic, and truthful immersion into stripper’s intimacy. Intended to de-stigmatize sex workers, this film follows the sacred beauty ritual of two best friends before their shift, while examining questions about general intimacy. It offers viewers another version of sex work—something unsensational and non-sexual, but nonetheless caring, tender, and beautiful.
Contractions
We watch as fourteen women testify and perform, with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they express themselves with all the power of their collective presence.
Marie & me
This documentary explores a young woman’s journey to reconstruct her identity and confront her tumultuous past as an escort. It is a portrait of deep-seated trauma viewed through a lens of compassion and empathy. This is Mary’s journey: a dazzlingly compelling tale that offers a glimmer of hope in a world filled with darkness.
Le petit panier à roulettes
Living on a shoestring in Montreal, a Vietnamese mother must act in bad faith to assert her right to buy 12 discount laundry detergents that she's been refused at a grocery store.
Like a Spiral
_Like a Spiral_ is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women's voices rise through the film's grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst for existence. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life's spiral, they lift themselves ...
Hello Stranger
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the story of her gender reassignment journey. Piecing together her memories, from her childhood in a small fishing village through her tumultuous medical process, Cooper attempts to make peace with the last male imprint remaining on her body: that annoying deep voice that sticks to her skin.
Mothers & Monsters
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? _Mothers & Monsters_ is a surrealist satire about modern-day maternity and the ideal of the family at a time where capitalism ha...
Hey Little One
Combining drawing and collage, the animated film _Hey Little One_ explores the intensity of the attachment bond between Edna, a hospitalized baby, and her parents' pair of friends who regularly rock her in the hospital.
Dear Oscarz
_Dear Oscarz_ is a correspondence between the desire to create and life that swallows you up. Something like that.
47 pouces
One night, 7-year-old Zélie sees her young Aunt Clara arrive at the family home. Clara is sad, doesn't leave the room and wears bandages on her wrists. Faced with the mystery of this closed door, Zélie realizes that all she has to do to get her aunt out of her melancholy is to help her dispel the clouds in her head...
Sylvie en liberté
Sylvie’s out of jail and back in town. She secretly visits her mother, trying to convince her to leave her violent husband. Facing her mother's refusal, Sylvie stays determined to enjoy every second of her new freedom. She rides her old chopper bicycle across the dirt roads, gets drunk, and thinks about kidnapping a neglected dog. But one thing is on Sylvie's mind: seeing her old lover, Coyote....
Never Fully Naked
_Never Fully Naked_ is a full, authentic, and truthful immersion into stripper’s intimacy. Intended to de-stigmatize sex workers, this film follows the sacred beauty ritual of two best friends before their shift, while examining questions about general intimacy. It offers viewers another version of sex work—something unsensational and non-sexual, but nonetheless caring, tender, and beautiful.
Contractions
We watch as fourteen women testify and perform, with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they express themselves with all the power of their collective presence.
