Planning what to watch
To help plan your WOFFF20 viewing, here are some handy categories. Maybe you want to watch eco-films, Black films, dance films or LGBTQ+ films. Maybe Scottish, Irish, or Welsh films interest you. You might be watching with children or grandchildren and want to find something that will appeal to all of you. Or maybe world cinema is your jam.
Lots of the WOFFF20 films could easily fit in a number of categories but we thought we’d keep it simple and assign just one category for each film.
All the films will be available to view online from Saturday 26th to Wednesday 30th September. All films available with subtitles.
If you’d like to suggest another category, we’d love to hear your ideas. Please get in touch with us here. Please use the contact form to get in touch.
BAME
Films made by and about Black and minority ethnic filmmakers telling stories and documenting lives in the UK, the US, Dominica, Kenya and New Zealand.
Ballet After Dark*
Barbara K. Asare-Bediako
Becky**
Nicola Cross
Don’t Shoot the Messenger***
Bianca Malcolm
Granny: No Problem Like Maria
Jake “Maka” Phillips
Life as We COVID
Kathy O Lofton
Magicland
Celia Willis, Emily Stein
Home From Home
Olivia Hetreed
The Honeys and Bears
Veena Rao
Upstream
Adriana Martins da Silva
The Passionate Pursuits
of Angela Bowen
Jennifer Abod
*Content Warning: Sexual abuse and sexual trauma
**Content Warning: FGM
***Content Warning: Gunshots, loud, sudden noises
COMEDY
Films to make you chuckle.
Grimsby Girl
Anna Keel
Lady What Does
Sara Jordan
Wannabe
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
DANCE
Films about movement and dance and the poetry of our own bodies. Some dance in a duo; some dance alone; some dance on a dance floor, some dance in a chair.
Clémentine
Chantal Caron
Haud Close Tae Me
Eve McConnachie
Still Dancing
Maria Viola Craig
Porcelain
Roswitha Chesher
Dancing is an Old Friend
Marta Renzi
ECO/NATURE
Films of Mother Nature, the Climate Emergency. Wonderful older women planting and nurturing tress, and healing our broken world.
Coastal Requiem
Diane Tuft
Inland Island
Sophie Molins
The Woman Who Planted Trees
Elspeth Parsons
Alder
Vanda Ladeira
One Shot
Michal Zadara
FAMILY
Films to enjoy if you’re watching with wee ones or children or teenagers. Films to start conversations about animals, love, journeys and families.
The Competition
Gloria Civantos
The Witch & the Baby
Evgenia Golubeva
Eyeless in Parkway
Lou Sumray
Married People
Tyro Heath
IRISH, SCOTTISH & WELSH
Films from of our Celtic neighbours. And one from Australia with an Irish twist.
Stray*
Sinéad O’Loughlin
Berta
Anwen Carlisle
Bronwyn Goes Dancing
Christopher T. Lang
Saving Grace**
Siobhán Kavanagh
Duck Daze***
Alison Piper
Wine Lake
Platon Theodoris
*Content Warning: Guns
**Content Warning: Suicide
***Content Warning: Historic family abuse
LGBTQ
Films of elder queer love, life, dance, struggle, politics and cakes.
Wings
Jamie Weston
Pastry
Eduardo Barreto
Swivel
Lois Norman
My Mama, A Man
Helena Middleton
SWING
Natacha Horn
Older Than What?
Steen Starr
OLDER WOMEN’S BODIES & MINDS
Films to reflect us to ourselves so we can see ourselves as we are in mind and body, in our loss and in our power.
Senescence
Phoebe Morrison
The Bridge
Catherine Fauteux
Bird Lady
Susie Jones
The Last Egg
Sue Bridge
RESILIENCE
Films of struggle, resistance and recovery
I am a Fellrunner
Jessie Leong, Julie Carter
I’ve Been Afraid*
Cecelia Condit
Quiet on Set**
Jeanette Buck
My Beautiful Turkish Baths
Şule Takmaz Nişancıoğlu
Lancaster Park
Lynda Reiss
CHAMP 5
Paul Gatto, David Jester & Kathleen Strouse
*Content Warning Abuse
**Content Warning Rape
WORLD CINEMA
Films from around the globe – from Georgia, Israel, Ukraine, Canada, Italy, Guatemala, Romania and Serbia.
Selfie with the Gastove*
Irine Javakhidze
Trudie’s Goose
C. Lily Ericsson, Cheri Gaulke, Samara Hutman & Liran Kapel
ANNA
Dekel Berenson
Delta
Jules St-Jean
Happy Motherhood
Sylvie Gravagna, Loïc Maldonado
Escape in the night
Liliana Paganini
Empty Spaces
Clara Stephanie Schieber Lorenesi
I’ll call you later
Maria Scutaru
I Have a Song to Sing You
Eluned Zoë Aiano & Alesandra Tatić
*Content Warning: Suicide