Women+Film Festival is a five-day live event screening over a dozen of outstanding features, shorts, and documentaries celebrating female filmmakers behind the camera and stories of women on the screen.

Schedule of Events:

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

7 pm: Every Little Thing

Opening Night Presentation, join us at 5:30pm for our Opening Night Reception!

Amid the glamor of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

4 pm: Chuck Chuck Baby

Set in present-day industrial North Wales, Helen spends her nights packing chickens and her days caring for a dying mother-figure Gwen. Helen’s world takes an unexpected turn with the return of Joanne. They were the objects of the other’s unspoken teenage passions twenty years ago. One night, encouraged by Helen, Joanne starts a playful wooing game that re-awakens their youthful feelings.

As they fall in love and lust, Helen’s zest for life returns but Joanne feels the walls closing in as she faces something much darker from her past. Helen’s world is shattered when Gwen dies and Joanne’s painful memories cause her to flee. Separated and alone, will both women reflect on their unfulfilled chance to break their barriers and allow love to win?

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7 pm: Black Box Diaries

Black Box Diaries follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting, and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

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Friday, April 12, 2024

2 pm: Hummingbirds

In Texas, on the Mexican border, best friends Silvia and Beba dance through long summer nights. Stuck in the immigration process in a politically divided America, home seems fragile. But their bond is not. The half-light is a space for poetry and dreams.

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4 pm: Mother Of All Lies

Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only has one
photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father, and grandmother tell about their home and their country. Slowly, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life. The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes surreal nonfiction film, El Moudir begins to draw what is real to the surface.

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5 pm: Women in Film and Media Mixer

Join WIFMCO and Women+Film Fest for an empowering evening of networking, collaboration, and inspiration.

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7 pm: Dandelion

Dandelion, a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance. The experience moves Dandelion from a narrow view of success to a deeper appreciation of her artistic journey, and the discovery of a voice that is authentically her own.

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7:15 pm: Show Her The Money

This is a story that’s never been told. The film addresses women getting less than 2% of venture capital and demystifies what venture capital is. Featuring rock-star female investors who invest in diverse women entrepreneurs with innovations that will change the world, Show Her The Money reminds us that money is power and women need it to achieve true equality.

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

11 am: Redefining Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice Panel

Join our community leaders as they assess the United States’ post-Roe landscape through a lens of reproductive justice and the wide range of issues it encompasses, including access to abortion, contraception, sex education, gender-affirming care, and more.

12 pm: Chosen Family

Ann (Heather Graham) is a yoga teacher struggling to achieve inner peace despite the fact her family is driving her crazy and her dating life is miserable. She doesn’t know how to say no and wants to fix everyone’s problems. In the meantime, Ann struggles to save her sister Clio (Julia Stiles) from addiction with disastrous results. With so many expectations on her, Ann leans on her good friends Max, Frances, Roz, and Ella for support. They in turn set her up with a cute divorced dad Steve, who has an adorable 7-year-old daughter. When Ann meets Steve’s daughter, Lily, she is immediately smitten. But Lily does not feel the same, and as Steve and Ann get closer, Lily grows increasingly jealous and competitive. When Lily starts to misbehave, Ann sees that Lily can do no wrong in Steve’s eyes – she’s in the battle of her life with a 7-year-old.

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2 pm: Shorts Program

A curated selection of short films, featuring: Strong Grandma (Dir. Cecilia Brown, Winslow Crane-Murdoch), Nun or Never! (Dir. Heta Jäälinoja), Neo Nahda (Dir. May Ziadé), A Real One (Dir. McKenzie Chinn), A Crab in the Pool (Dir. Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel), Hello Stranger (Dir. Amélie Hardy) and We Ride For Her (Dir. Prairie Rose Seminole, Katrina Lillian Sorrentino).

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4:30 pm: Seeking Mavis Beacon

The most recognizable woman in technology lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software’s Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about identity and artificial intelligence.

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7:30 pm: Midwives

After five years of dedicated learning in the noble profession of midwifery – often hailed as “the most beautiful job in the world” – Louise and Sofia are embarking on their professional journey, bracing themselves for substantial responsibilities. In a world that operates at a frenetic pace, they navigate the delicate realms of birth, motherhood, and occasionally, the solemnity of death. The question lingers: will their profound calling endure the tumultuous storm they are about to face?

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

8:30 am: Film and Flow Yoga

Start your day off with mindful movement led by Keirst from Afternoon Yoga. This rejuvenating experience offers a time for relaxation amidst the busyness of the festival! Open to all skill levels, come as you are.

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11 am: Sexism to Solidarity Panel

Hear women share their personal experiences with sexism in the workplace and how they’ve fought back by building supportive alliances within and across professional industries.

11:45 am: Let The Canary Sing

Chronicling Cyndi Lauper’s meteoric ascent to stardom and her profound impact on generations through her music, ever-evolving punk style, unwavering feminism, and tireless advocacy. The film takes the audience on an engaging exploration of the world of a renowned and pioneering artist, who has left a remarkable legacy with her artwork.

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2 pm: The Queen Of My Dreams

Queer Pakistani grad student Azra is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.

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4 pm: COPA 71

It is August 1971. Football teams from England, Argentina, Mexico, France, Denmark and Italy are gathering at Mexico City’s sun-drenched Azteca Stadium. The scale of the tournament is monumental: lavish sponsorship, extensive TV coverage, merchandise on every street corner and crowds of over 100,000 hollering fans turn this historic stadium into ‘a cauldron of noise and heat’ match after match. A fawning media treat the players like rock stars. The atmosphere is reminiscent of the greatest moments in international footballing history. But this is a tournament unlike anything that’s happened before. The players on the pitch are all women. And it’s likely you’ve never even heard of it. This is Copa 71, the unofficial Women’s World Cup. Dismissed by both FIFA and domestic football associations around the world, this event has been entirely written out of history. Until now.

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11 am – 5 pm: W+F Marketplace

Explore and uplift locally owned women's small businesses. Featuring handmade art, wellness products, jewelry, and more! Supporting the Women + Film Marketplace means not only bringing home one-of-a-kind finds but also investing in local women creators.

Date: April 10 - 14 2024

Location: Sie FilmCenter - 2510 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206

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