The essential WOFFF21 guide is here!
Dive into our easy-to-navigate digital booklet highlighting the 57 international, independent films screening at this year’s festival. Learn more about the makers creating these fascinating documentaries, dramas, animation and experimental films. Find out what’s in store in the WOFFF annual lecture online and the all-female panel event.
You can download this programme as a PDF here.
WOFFF CONNECTIONS 2021
Here’s the incredible female-over-50 talent in each WOFFF21 film – on screen or behind the camera or both!
| Film | Director/s | WOFFF connection |
| (S)kin | Sophie Jane Bancroft | Documentary subject & writer Sophie Jane Bancroft |
| #DaughterFail | Krissy Mahan | Animation subject Carol Mahan. Writer & director Krissy Mahan |
| 1000 Days | Jeanette Rourke & Ron Bambridge | Documentary subject Sangeeta Mahajan. Director Jeanette Rourke |
| a:dress | Clare Unsworth | Writer Leah Thorn |
| Although I am retired | Feng Tian Xun | Lead actor Danni Liang |
| And Yet | Lucretia Knapp & Lynne Yamamoto | Experimental subject, producer & director Lynne Yamamoto. Producer & director Lucretia Knapp |
| Athens, My City – My ‘hood | Stavroula Logothettis | Director Stavroula Logothettis |
| Being Me In The Current America | Dmae Roberts | Lead actor Shareen Jacobs. Writer Josie Seid. Director & producer Dmae Roberts |
| Clearing | Karen Kaeja | Experimental subject & director Karen Kaeja |
| Dutchess of the Sea | Mayke Pels & Sanne Kranenborg | Documentary subjects Bela Evers, Désirée Kranenborg, Astrid Janse, Remke van Kleij |
| Edith Gibson has 3000 Dolls | Daisy Lawless | Documentary subject Edith Gibson |
| El Habbasa – Fishing Net | Dania Elmor | Documentary subject Wafaa Ghareeb EL Salmon |
| From A Strange Land | Caroline Steinbeis | Lead actor Deborah Findlay |
| From pasture into hands | Thury Bara Birgisdottir | Documentary subject Olil Amble. Director Thury Bara Birgisdottir |
| Grandma’s Visit | Katie Tuckwell | Animation subject, Grandma |
| In Search of Times Past | Aya Chouaib | Documentary subject Sultana Cheaib |
| Inside | Jemma Cholawo & Lois Norman | Writer, producer & director Lois Norman |
| Joy Uncensored | Natasha Hawthornthwaite | Documentary subject Joy France |
| Lay Me Low | Marlene Millar | Experimental subject & producer Sandy Silva. Director Marlene Millar |
| Locked Down in West Leeds | Leeds Animation Workshop | Director Leeds Animation Workshop |
| Ma | Anne Marie Kelly | Lead actor, writer, producer & director Anne Marie Kelly |
| Mid Life: The Skin We’re In | Lucy Richardson | Documentary subjects Jacqui Beckford, Claire Hodgson & Karen Spicer. Director Lucy Richardson |
| Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color | Cheri Gaulke | Documentary subject Alma W. Thomas. Director Cheri Gaulke |
| Missed Call | Victoria Mapplebeck | Documentary subject & director Victoria Mapplebeck |
| Mitta Has Been Masking | Darby Bailey | Experimental subject & director Darby Bailey |
| MORS DAG | Jeanine B. Frost | Lead actor Mette Lisby |
| Mother | Gal Kinan | Director Gal Kinan |
| Nanakorobi (Seven Falls) | Glenna Burmer & Gaby Breiter | Writer, producer & director Glenna Burmer |
| Nene 30 | King Louie Palomo | Lead actor Flora Gasser. |
| Night Drive | Despina Athanassiadis | Lead actor Marina Tomé |
| nudinits – Bernard and Barbara’s Big Ding Dong | Sarah Simi | Director Sarah Simi |
| One for the Road | Eileen Tracey | Lead actor Lynn Hunter |
| Oranges & Lemons | Robyn Grace | Writer, producer & director Robyn Grace |
| Salvaged Love | Gisela Nadasy | Lead actor Katarina Bothén. Writer, producer & director Gisela Nadasy |
| Screaming Goddess | Cally Trench | Animation subject & director Cally Trench |
| Something Borrowed | Micky Wozny | Animation subject Violet |
| Stay with Her | Yang Chen | Lead actor Yuxiang Yang |
| Takeaway | Lou Sumray | Director Lou Sumray |
| The Birth Of Valerie Venus | Sarah Clift | Lead actor Jane Guernier |
| The Blue Bed | Alireza Kazemipour | Lead actor Anahita Eghbalnejad |
| The Exit Plan | Angus Wilkinson | Lead actor Marcia Warren |
| The Isobel Imprint | Ali Grant | Director Ali Grant |
| The Last Celebration | Adrián Ramos | Lead actor Martha Morales |
| The Leaving Party | Milly Garnier & Emily Bray | Lead actor Caroline Blakiston |
| The Man At the Bottom Of the Garden | Paul Blinkhorn | Lead actor Denise Black |
| The Personal is Political | Carol Harrison | Writer & director Carol Harrison |
| The piano forest | Eva Sjöblom, Åsa Linder | Director Eva Sjöblom |
| The PRATT in the HAT | Susan Hillary | Documentary subject Dr Frances Pratt. Writer & director Susan Hillary |
| The Scarecrows | Dan Hodgson | Documentary subject Tsukimi Ayano |
| There’s a reason people don’t swim in dresses | Andrew Brooks | Animation subject & writer Sally Tissington |
| There’s Your Ready Girl | Deborah C. Hoard & Rachel Ferro | Documentary subject Dorothy Cotton. Producer & director Deborah C. Hoard |
| Through the Looking Glass | Morgane Polanski | Lead actor Dame Sian Phillips. Producer Anne Beresford |
| Trapped by Plastic | Anny Tubbs | Documentary subject Mandy Barker. Director Anny Tubbs |
| Trees | Rosie Morris | Documentary subject Sarah Perry |
| Turf | Kiri Mitchell | Animation subject the older woman. Writer, producer & Kiri Mitchell |
| Walks With Me | Kati Kallio | Experimental subject Ritva Kattelus. Writer & director Kati Kallio |
| When I become who I am | Lene Kamm | Experimental subject & director Lene Kamm |