Women X 2025 Film Programme
Welcome to the full line-up for this year’s Women X Film Festival, for our 6th edition we are proud to present our biggest ever programme. Doubling our screenings with bold, brave, bizarre and truly fantastic mix of stories made by women and gender non-conforming filmmakers from across the UK and the world.
This index is your guide to every screening in our 2025 programme. As always, our programmers have lovingly curated a wide range of genres, themes and styles meaning there is a little bit of something for everyone's taste, with the space to try something completely new. So you're at home with us for your comforts and some discovery!
Our short films are curated into 23 screenings, click on the buttons below the screening to see which films are part of each screenings and how you can book passes to watch them at the festival, most screenings will have filmmakers in attendance to answer questions and talk about the films afterwards!
We can’t wait to share these films with you!
The list of which films will be screened with subtitles is at the bottom of this page.
Among Us
Documentaries shining a light on northern lives and communities
Themes: Documentary.
And It’s Personal
Real stories, raw emotions. Uncomfortable truths told with passion.
Themes: Documentary.
As We Are
Bold, vibrant stories celebrating LGBTQ+ lives and love.
Themes: Coming of Age, Comedy, Drama.
At Sixes and Sevens
Exploring the complexities of relationships and connection between women and men
Themes: Thriller, Comedy, Drama.
Beyond Borders
These intimate dramas explore migration, belonging, and what it means to build a life in unfamiliar places.
Themes: Documentary, Comedy, Drama.
Best Friends For Now
Celebrating friendship in all its messy, magical glory. Acknowledging that often, it’s not forever.
Themes: Coming of Age, Comedy, Drama.
Broken Britain
After over a decade of austerity, what does life look like beyond the headlines?
Themes: Drama.
Circle Of Life
The joys and heartbreaks of raising the next generation.
Themes: Animation, Comedy, Drama.
Cup Of Tea
Unexpected gems that might not slot in elsewhere, but they’re our cup of tea
Themes: Coming of Age, Comedy, Drama.
Duty Of Care
A compelling handful of films exploring the often unseen responsibilities and emotionally charged involvement in caring for others, paid and unpaid.
Themes: Drama.
Eye Contact
Films pushing boundaries and playing with form.
Themes: Experimental, Thriller.
Handcrafted
Films that celebrate the art, skill and commitment behind people’s passions
Themes: Animation, Documentary Drama.
Hell Is Other People
From toxic love to deceiving strangers, these films dive into the terrifying side of human connection where relationships unravel, and the real monsters wear familiar faces.
Themes: Horror, Thriller.
Homegrown
Films that capture the heart and soul of the North East, from our homegrown filmmakers
Themes: Documentary, Comedy, Drama.
Mistakes Were Made
LOL moments tangled up in everyday problems, and bizarre dilemmas
Themes: Comedy.
Meaning In Motion
A collection of animated shorts that explore the complex nature of human connection, with others and ourselves.
Themes: Animation.
Pillow Talk
Raw, honest explorations of intimacy and attraction.
Themes: Comedy, Drama.
Rooted
Raw, real, and rooted stories from across the North of England
Themes: Drama, Experimental.
Seen And Not Heard
Through the eyes of children, these films are told from a perspective where the world is bigger, scarier and often harder to understand.
Themes: Coming of Age, Drama, Animation.
The Body Keeps The Score
Nightmares of flesh and bone, and unreliable minds
Themes: Horror, Thriller.
The Winner Takes It All
Stories of sweat, passion, and the drive to win.
Themes: Coming of Age, Documentary, Drama.
United States of Disconnect
Exploring the fractured American experience
Themes: Comedy, Documentary, Drama.
Worldwide Burdens
International stories that reveal shared struggles and strength regardless of where we are
Themes: Documentary, Drama.
Subtitle Information
Among Us
Joy O’ Dance
Pegs & Bacon
The Golden Postbox
At Sixes and Sevens
Menagerie
And It’s Personal
Captive Women
Enough Enough
UHURU
As We Are
Fizzing
Playground
The Guard
The Last Goodbye
Best Friends for Now
Eighty-Six
I'll Tell Them About Us One Day
The Heavy Pencil
Ugly Instagram
Beyond Borders
Code of Conduct
Irpinia
The Test
Broken Britain
Unfortunately, there are no subtitles available for this screening
Cup of Tea
9 Days in August
Mole
Skin
Truckload
Circle of Life
Do You Have Kids?
Dressed to the Nines
Pomegranate
Pump Off
Push
Duty of Care
First Timer
STELLA
STRAY
Eye Contact
Grandpa's Garden
Interruption
LISTEN.
Tainted by the Visual
This Werewolf Complex
Handcrafted
Crit
Hot Mess
The Last Grass Seamstress
They Call Me the Tattoo Witch
Homegrown
Emmy's Rhinestone Shoebox
Eye
Hell Is Other People
Blue Violet
False Freedom
Signs
Meaning in Motion
And Granny Would Dance
Mistakes Were Made
Unfortunately, there are no subtitles available for this screening
Pillow Talk
Phase 4
Wild Oats
Rooted
It's Fine.
POST
The High Road
Seen and Not Heard
Amplified
Bluff
Happy Snaps
INSIDE
The Body Knows the Score
Autophagy
Plastic Surgery
The Winner Takes It All
BREAKS
Tanya Franks Runs
United States of Disconnect
Why We Ride
Worldwide Burdens
At Night You Become a Mother
Cleaning
Hysteria
No: 302
The Blisters
