The International Women's Film Festival, formerly known as Créteil International Women's Film Festival (in French Festival International de Films de Femmes (FIFF); formerly Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil), also known simply as Films des Femmes, is an annual film festival held in Créteil, France.
History The Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil was founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux. It transferred to Créteil in 1985.
it is known as the Festival International de Films de Femmes (FIFF).
Description Located in Créteil, a city southeast of Paris, today the festival is 10 non-stop days premiering 50 or more new films directed by one or more women. The festival also offers film classes, thematic forums and debates. The competition is open to women from around the world who have made a feature-length documentary, a short length fiction and a documentary film.
The festival offers a number of prizes, including several Audience awards and the "Grand Jury Prize." There is a festival archive containing more than 10,000 films by women.
Winners of the Grand Prix +YearTitle (English)Title (Original)Director(s)Country1980Germany Pale MotherDeutschland bleiche MutterHelma Sanders-BrahmsWest Germany1981Sisters, or the Balance of HappinessSchwestern oder Die Balance des GlücksMargarethe von TrottaWest Germany1982A Question of SilenceDe stilte rond Christine M.Marleen GorrisNetherlands1983Born in FlamesLizzie BordenUnited States1984With a Fixed View of MoneyMit starrem Blick aufs GeldHelga ReidemeisterWest Germany1985Kasik DüsmaniLa Chambre de mariageBilge OlgaçTurkey1986By TouchPrzez dotykMagdalena LazarkiewiczPoland1987LoyaltiesAnne WheelerCanada / United Kingdom1988Business as UsualLezli-An BarrettUnited Kingdom / United States1989CeliaAnn TurnerAustralia1990Memories of a RiverTutajosokJudit ElekHungary1991VigourKrachtFrouke FokkemaNetherlands1992Freud Leaving HomeFreud flyttar hemifrån.Susanne BierSweden / Denmark1993Speak Up! It's So DarkTala! Det är så mörktSuzanne OstenSweden1994The Sex of the StarsLe Sexe des étoilesPaule BaillargeonCanada1995Eden ValleyAmber Production TeamUnited Kingdom1996Summer SnowNu ren si shiAnn HuiHong Kong1997Floating LifeClara LawAustralia1998In That Land...V toy strane...Lidiya BobrovaRussia1999Happy BirthdayS dnyom rozhdeniya!Larisa SadilovaRussia2000Seven Songs from the TundraSeitsemän laulua tundraltaAnastasia Lapsui, Markku LehmuskallioFinland2001The Days BetweenIn den Tag hineinMaria SpethGermany2002Mostly MarthaBella MarthaSandra NettelbeckGermany2003The Best Day of My LifeIl Più bel giorno della mia vitaCristina ComenciniItaly2004Take My EyesTe doy mis ojosIcíar BollaínSpain2005Chinese EyeSepetYasmin AhmadMalaysia2006SévignéMarta Balletbò-CollSpain2007How Is Your Fish Today?Jin tian de yu zen me yang?Xiaolu GuoChina2008MainlineKhoon baziMohsen Abdolvahab, Rakhshan BanietemadIran2009KnittingNiu lang zhi nuYin LichuanChina2010Pudana: Last of the LineSukunsa viimeinenAnastasia Lapsui, Markku LehmuskallioFinland / Russia2011Missing ManPropavshiy bez vestiAnna FenchenkoRussia2012InvisibleLo Roim AlaichMichal AviadIsrael2013HemelSacha PolakNetherlands / Spain2014Broken Hill BluesÖmhetenSofia NorlinSweden2015Objects in MirrorAshya dar ayenehNarges Abyar, Mohammad Hossein GhasemiIran2016Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our ParentsDora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer ElternStina WerenfelsSwitzerland2017Lipstick Under my BurkhaLipstick Waale SapneAlankrita ShrivastavaIndia 2018Medea Alexandra Latishev Salazar Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina 2019 The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić La Caótica vida de Nada Kadić Marta Hernáiz Pidal Mexico 2020 Not Presented 2021 Quo Vadis, Aida? Jasmila Žbanić Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 Clara Sola Nathalie Álvarez Mesén Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium, Germany 2023 Trenque Lauquen Laura Citarella Argentina, Germany 2024 Kalak Isabella Eklöf Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Greenland 2025 Sugar Island Johanné Gómez Terrero Dominican Republic, Spain
See also Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema, 1999–2005 List of women's film festivals Women's cinema Woman's film Women in film Feminist film theory List of female film and television directors List of female film directors Black women filmmakers
References
External links
Créteil International Women's Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database