Bringing filmmakers and audiences together to celebrate women’s stories, amplify underrepresented voices, and build meaningful creative community.

Film Girl Film Festival celebrates the vision, creativity, and storytelling of women and underrepresented filmmakers from around the world. Join us in Chicago, October 30–November 1, 2026, for three days of independent cinema, powerful perspectives, and community at The 400 Theater.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AWARD WINNERS!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AWARD WINNERS! 〰️

2024 Award Winners

Jury Award, Best Feature

The Mother of All Lies
Jury Award, Best Short

Mångata
Jury Award, Best Chicago Short

Something Like Intimacy
Music Box Audience Award, Best Feature

Egghead & Twinkie
Music Box Audience Award, Best Short

Mångata
Music Box Audience Award, Best Chicago Short

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“Wonderful Midwest home-grown fest. Great opportunities to network with other filmmakers, good film selection.”

Andrea Zile Bish, Director/writer

Behind the Screen

Directed By Women: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

A thrillingly twisted, subversive crime tale of blood, love, and murder that embraces the beautifully surrealist absurdity of letting your freak flags fly with a lover who sees the beauty in your darkest darkness, it’s one of the best A24 thrillers I’ve seen, and will likely have a place on my best films of 2024.

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Directed By Women: Someone Great (2019)

Rodriguez plays Jenny, a New Yorker who is at multiple crossroads in her life - she’s turning 30, about to leave the city she loves, and thus her bffs Blair (Brittany Snow) and Erin (DeWanda Wise) for her dream job at Rolling Stone in San Francisco. But the catalyst for this one last hurrah is her breakup with her boyfriend of nine years, Nate (LaKeith Stanfield).