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Female-led short films

Women at the centre of the frame, carrying the whole story. Shorts where she is the one we follow.

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Curator’s note

Short films with a strong female lead.

A strong female lead is not a woman holding a gun; it is a woman the film actually trusts to carry it. Short films, free of franchise baggage, get there faster than almost anything. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Women at the centre, doing far more than reacting.

Little Games hands a small girl a sinister plan and the nerve to reveal it, and The World Beyond Me follows a woman dreaming of freedom inside Mumbai's red-light district. The Nightingale watches a singer fight her way back through trauma, while Annie Waits turns one woman's long search for the right person into something tender and sharp.

The best female-led short films give their women a full inner life. Wired watches a woman refuse to be gaslit by her own AI wellbeing hub, and Only The Lonely sits with an older woman finding her way after losing the love of her life. Every film here was chosen by our editors and streams free in all 193 countries, with no subscription. Press play and meet them.

The Klipist editors