Women X 2025 Film Festival Award Nominations

Across our programme we spotlight and celebrate those creating significant work, awards certainly aren’t everything here, they’re a fun addition to the festival.

If you have a weekend or sunday pass, you can join us at the festival awards ceremony on Sunday 21st September!

Filmmaking Pioneers

    • WINNER: Dark Skin Bruises Differently - Susan Wokoma

    • Beauty Sleep - Jasmine Emma De Silva

    • Bluff - Naomi Wright

    • I Hate Helen - Katie Lambert

    • Interruption - dk fash

    • Milk - Naomi Waring

    • Paranoia - Alina Bichieva

    • Solers United - Sara Harrak

    • The Pilgrimage - Chakira Alin

    • The Test - Hsieh Meng Han

    • WINNER: The Test - Meng Han Hsieh

    • Be Honest! - Charlie Grove

    • Bluff - Naomi Wright, Georgie Morrell

    • I Hate Helen - Katie Lambert

    • Milk - Naomi Waring

    • On The Twelfth Day of Findom - Joanne Thomson

    • Paranoia - Alina Bichieva

    • PLEASE - Fiona McGarvey

    • Shell - Sam Brain

    • Type of Rain - Saskia Steinberg, Madison Hookway

    • WINNER: Egg Timer - Hattie Jackson

    • Beauty Sleep - Tuli Litvak

    • Blue Violet - Archie Sinclair, Chuckie McEwan

    • Bluff - Natasha Ketel

    • DELIVERY - Bophanie Lun, Joe Binks

    • I Hate Helen - Martha McGuirk, Rosie Brear.

    • On The Twelfth Day of Findom - Misha McCullagh

    • PLEASE - Izzy Meikle-Small

    • The Pilgrimage - Hannah Samuel-Ogbu, Maya Nurmohamed

    • Wild Oats - Katie Mallinder

    • WINNER: Cherry B

    • Afters

    • Plastic Surgery

    • This Werewolf Complex

    • Wild Oats

    • WINNER: THE REMOVED

    • HOMEMAKER

    • Tainted by the Visual

    • The Descent

    • UNWELL WOMAN

    • WINNER: Menagerie

    • Bare Roots

    • EVOL

    • Personal Best

    • Type of Rain

Northern Excellence

    • WINNER: Unseen Strength - Kimberley Ford

    • Borne - Claire Heather Molloy

    • Summer Bridges - Molly Emma Fraser

    • Pegs & Bacon - Sarah Nicola Mason

    • Skate like a lass - Juliet Klottrup

    • WINNER: GOT GUTS - Georgia Leigh-Taylor

    • Borne - Claire Heather Molloy, Anna Moore

    • Eye - Danielle James

    • Please Come Home - Charlotte Fenton

    • It's Fine. - Lily Corke Butters

    • WINNER: Please Come Home - Charlotte Fenton

    • Eye - Chess Tomlinson

    • GOT GUTS - Georgia Leigh-Taylor, Luke Bather

    • POST - Eddie Capli, Chim'Di Ugada, Jo Lane

    • The Heavy Pencil - Heather Elise Nelson, David Addison

Stunning Performances

    • WINNER: On The Twelfth Day of Findom - Laura Lovemore

    • Bluff - Kara Caldwell

    • Do You Have Kids?- Cora Bissett

    • I Hate Helen- Kanan Verma

    • Milk - Tia Bannon

    • Paranoia - Ella-Rae Smith

    • Push - Elly Condron

    • Shell - Alex Brain

    • Signs - Franchi Webb

    • SKIN - Katrina Allen

    • WINNER: Dance, then - Chloe Harris

    • Hot Young Geek Seeks Blood-Sucking Freak - Kat Ronney

    • Learners - Roger Allam

    • Playground - Amelia Clarkson

    • Shell - Emma Breschi

    • WINNER: The Pilgrimage

    • BIOLOGY

    • Cherry B

    • Hopes and Beans

    • Interruption

    • Menagerie

    • One Hundred and Eighty

    • Solers United

    • Truckload

    • Ugly Instagram

    • WINNER: Summer Bridges - Natalia Fox and Ross Thompson

    • Eye - Chess Tomlinson & Danielle James

    • GOT GUTS - Rachel Isbister

    • Please Come Home - Charlotte Fenton

    • STELLA - Harriet Ghost

New Voices

    • WINNER: Wild Oats - Rosa Duncan

    • CARE - Stef O'Driscoll

    • Egg Timer - Rosie May Bird Smith

    • First Timer - Hannah Kathryn Kelso

    • Menagerie - Amelia Lloyd

    • Olive - Rosie Potts

    • Personal Best - Lara Peake

    • Push - Elly Condron

    • Shell - Sam Brain

    • The Isle - Paige Cowan-Hall

    • WINNER:Clare's Law

    • Be Honest!

    • Chivalry

    • Pomegranate

    • The High Road

    • WINNER: LISTEN. - Umnia El-Neil

    • Afterplay - Iris Breward

    • Audition - Megan Harding

    • Crit - Isabel Lea

    • Dreams and a Lost Letter to Love - Nika Krykun

    • Emma - Laura Lee Daly

    • Jael Drives the Nail - Maddie Dai

    • MOLE - Shari Sharpe

    • Passenger - Nia Alavezos

    • Sandcastles - Meredith Stewart

    • The Descent - Holly Lawrenson Evans

    • The Guard - Patricia McCormick

    • Why We Ride - Erin Kirby

    • Ariane's Baby - Mahée Merica

    • Bare Roots - Ellen McDougall

    • HOMEMAKER - Megan Brown

    • False Freedom - Rosalie Rut Sigrúnardóttir

    • NOIR - Charlene Wango

    • See And Don't See - Olive Jones

    • UNWELL WOMAN - Daniella DeVinter

    • WINNER: Shell

    • Bluff

    • Happy Snaps

    • Hot Mess

    • Peace Of Heart

    • Please Come Home

    • Solers United

    • The Pilgrimage

    • Their Accounts

    • Why We Ride

Best Of The Best

    • WINNER: Bluff

    • Dance, then

    • Dark Skin Bruises Differently

    • Egg Timer

    • I Hate Helen

    • Milk

    • Paranoia

    • Personal Best

    • Shell

    • Truckload

    • WINNER: Eye

    • Borne

    • GOT GUTS

    • Please Come Home

    • Summer Bridges

    • WINNER: PHASE 4

    • 9 DAYS IN AUGUST

    • Baby Tooth

    • Grandpa's Garden

    • His Mother

    • I'll tell them about us one day

    • STRAY

    • Take Care

    • WINNER: Enough Enough

    • CAPTIVE WOMEN

    • Irpinia

    • Something Glamorous, Something Awkward

    • Tainted by the Visual

    • The Last Grass Seamstress

    • THEY CALL ME THE TATTOO WITCH

    • This Werewolf Complex

    • WINNER: The Golden Postbox

    • Pegs & Bacon

    • Skate like a lass

    • Clare's Law

    • Joy O' Dance

    • WINNER: Hot Mess

    • And Granny Would Dance

    • Autophagy

    • Gardening

    • Peace Of Heart

The ‘Outstanding Achievement in Women in Film’ award is taking a short pause this year while we reimagine the nomination process to ensure it continues to celebrate the voices and achievements that best reflect the heart of Women X.

Script Competition

  • WINNER:
    Doctors & Nurses
    by Leila Lockley

    2nd:
    Drishti
    by Urvi Narang

    3rd:
    Namesake
    by Agatha Chapman-Poole

    At the End of it All
    by Emily Hine

    Auntiyan / Hags and Bats
    by Vatsala Patel

    Crushed
    by Zoë Swann

    Favourite
    by Georgia Leigh-Taylor

    Feed
    by Annie Hodson

    Flyaway
    by Charlotte Amelia

    Friendship Was a Safe Bet
    by Nara Toktoshova

    GETTING INTO CHARACTER
    by Maggie Dickinson

    Good Things are Coming
    by Jess Painter

    Hot 'n' Cold
    by Helen Bendell

    How to be an Assassin in the English Countryside
    by Mhairi Ledgerwood

    I Saw Her Coming Back to Me
    by Lola Valerie Yolanda Kenet

    Leak (Working Title)
    by Ella Dorman-Gajic

    Ma, Me
    by Rose Wardle

    Men I'm Not Married To
    by Lauren Piskothy

    Rafta, Rafta (Slowly, Slowly)
    by Misha Hassan

    Ramble
    by Alice Panerai

    Reboot
    by Leora Randall-Tavori

    Return to Anglesia
    by Mimi Vlaovic

    Single Enough
    by Abril Carpio Marion

    Snapdragon
    by Emma Kayani

    Sparrow
    by Meng Han Hsieh & Agustina Figueras

    Text Me When You're Home
    by Sarah Dawes

    The Cade Lamb
    by Issy Sophie Halpin

    The Locke King
    by Elinor Anne Campbell

    Things We Put in Our Mouths
    by Giovana Chiconelli

    Tiny Dynamite
    by Juliana Sumsion

    Upper Bunk
    by Calif Chong

    We Come in Pieces
    by Arwen Roberts