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Female Directors short films

Short films directed by women, on every subject. The vision, the eye, the stories told from behind the camera.

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Short films directed by women.

This shelf is for the filmmakers behind the camera. These short films were all directed by women, and they span every register, grief, comedy, horror, first love. Hand-picked, complete, and free to watch.

Skin takes Tom Sturridge (The Sandman) through the fog of grief, and Smudged Smile sits with a bright teen hiding depression behind a happy face. Vessel follows a young disabled girl breaking free of her religious mother, while The Nightingale traces a singer's way back through trauma.

The best of them prove range is not a gendered thing. Annie Waits turns one woman's wait for the right person into something tender and funny, and These Matterless Things traces the emotional complexity of love through everyday moments. Every film here was chosen by our editors and streams free in all 193 countries, with no subscription. Press play and back the filmmakers.

The Klipist editors