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48°47′28″N 2°27′47″E / 48.791°N 2.463°E / 48.791; 2.463 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.
As of 2024 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
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
- ^ Kuhn, Annette; Susannah Radstone (1994). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-520-08879-5.
- "A propos". Festival International de Films de Femmes (in French). 24 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2024.