Women X 2026 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 to further spotlight our filmmakers in the industry.

Nominated filmmakers are invited to attend our festival awards ceremony on Sunday 20th September, there is a waiting list for reserve tickets for members of the public to attend the ceremony.

Filmmaking Pioneers

    • All Well. All Good. All Perfect. - Dubheasa Lanipekun

    • Bloodsuckers - Rosie Brear

    • Hugged People, Hug People - Jojo Bossman

    • I replied with my heart - Anita García Rico

    • Night Feeds - Rana Roy

    • Scope - Emma Moffat

    • Stinging Nettles - Jerusha West

    • Swim Sistas - Catherine Joy White

    • The Emancipation of Megan or How To Eat A Chocolate Bon Bon - Chi Thai

    • The Intimacy Coordinator - Louisa Connolly-Burnham

    • The Pigeon - Chloe Culpin

    • Behind Closed Doors

    • C U Next Tuesday - Eden Sandy

    • Counterpointe - Polly Coombes

    • Friday is Mushroom Soup - Katy Trevor

    • Game Over - Kit Sinclair

    • Hot Wings - Jessica Jack Boyd

    • Mimic - Jessica Temple

    • Salt - Muskaan Razdan

    • Tell Your Face - Olivia D'Lima

    • The Emancipation of Megan or How To Eat A Chocolate Bon Bon - Katie Boyles

    • There In The World - Daisy Moore

    • You and Me makes Three - Emmalie El Fadli, Hansof Waller

    • Aunty JI

    • Baby On Board

    • Bolbol

    • Game Over

    • Headscarf

    • Homonym

    • Little Wing

    • Night Feeds

    • Requirements

    • The Intimacy Coordinator

    • Game Over

    • Gan Canny

    • I replied with my heart

    • Latcho Drom (Good Road)

    • Mayflies

    • Route 310

    • Stinging Nettles

    • The Last Cheap House

    • Wandsey

    • You and Me makes Three

    • Aunty JI

    • Cass and Roya

    • Girl Dinner

    • Homonym

    • Hugged People, Hug People

    • I am a River

    • Lovely

    • Nicknames

    • UBIQUITOUS

    • Your Email Has Not Found Me Well

    • All Well. All Good. All Perfect.

    • Blue Hour

    • Dirt

    • Hugged People, Hug People

    • Mayflies

    • Night Feeds

    • Swim Sistas

    • The Contraception Fair

    • There In The World

    • Woman, Dying

Northern Excellence

    • Blue Hour

    • Gan Canny

    • Jammy

    • Laundreams

    • The Tide

    • Blue Hour

    • Gan Canny

    • The Tide

    • Lonelier Than Love

    • Siren Upon Tyne

    • Gan Canny

    • Lonelier Than Love

    • Contemplating Motherhood

    • How to Wash a Body, How to Cleanse a Soul

    • Lucky Penny

    • Gan Canny

    • Lonelier Than Love

    • The Tide

    • Jammy

    • Ambition

    • O Mother, Where Art Thou?

    • Peeping Toms

    • Take Me Home

    • The Bluebird's Daughter

    • Time to Go

    • 7th Cycle

    • Five Minute Brides

    • Her Last Judgement

    • Mutton

    • Stasis Society

    • Yours, Forever and Always

    • 7th Cycle - Hanna Wahab

    • Jammy - Lainya Craig

    • O Mother, Where Art Thou? -Dayle Saunders

    • Clocked Off! - Rebecca Schott

    • Critical - Lisa Rustage

    • GRLHOOD - Lauren McPoland

    • Magical Party Hats Of Truth - Emma Lamb

Stunning Performances

    • Dirt - Bel Fraser

    • Immaterial - Holly Higbee

    • The Emancipation of Megan or How To Eat A Chocolate Bon Bon - Karen Hassan

    • The Intimacy Coordinator - Louisa Connolly-Burnham

    • There In The World - Daisy Moore

    • Bedsore - Bebe Cave

    • MILK - Emma Ballantine

    • Parentia - Holly Weston

    • Tell Your Face - Olivia D'Lima

    • Your Email Has Not Found Me Well - Lucy Hilton - Jones

    • Because I Love You - Alanna Willis

    • MEAT - Elle Piper

    • Mimic - Jessica Temple

    • Requirements - Sasha Alexis

    • What Goes Round (Or Things That Go Bump In The Night) - Stella Talpo

    • BABY - Brandon Bendell

    • Full Fat - Cara Mahoney

    • Party Pooper - Charlene Boyd

    • Sunny Side Up - Ben Galvin

    • The Intimacy Coordinator - Kieron Moore

    • ATTACK OF THE COAT

    • Break Clause

    • GRAIN

    • I replied with my heart

    • M'ungry

    • Sidelined

    • Sucker

    • The Contraception Fair

    • Woman, Dying

    • You and Me makes Three

New Voices

    • BABY — Georgia Small

    • Bloodsuckers — Rosie Brear

    • Bolbol — Lucianna Kyriacou

    • Dirt — Isabella Speaight

    • Emiko Jones — Hanako Footman

    • friendship was a safe bet — Nara Toktoshova

    • Headscarf — Lucia Saavedra

    • Lovely — Jasmine Blackborow

    • Twosome — April-Rose Desalegn

    • UBIQUITOUS — Masha Maroutitch

    • Wandsey — Gabby Lauren

    • Your Email Has Not Found Me Well — Karolina Papp

    • Ayomikun

    • Deep Plate

    • Embodied

    • Limbo

    • Pole Position

  • Ayomikun - Euphemia Olaiya

    Backwoods - Aminah Alhamdu

    Bedsore - Sophie Delilah Graham

    Break Clause - Laura Prendergast

    Duck, Actually - Hania Pikulska

    Fudge Sundae - Georgia Wilde

    Girl Dinner - Eloïse Poulton

    Herbs - Emily Steck

    MILK - Emma Ballantine

    Mother Daughter - Greta Santagata

    My Sister is a Cactus

    O MIO! - Anastasiya Ador

    Olympian - Emily Joshua

    Parentia - Holly Weston

    Picture Girl - Mitzi Smishkewych Kosovske

    SHE'S IN THE BATHROOM - Barbara Smith

    Sucker - Fae Al-Kalamchi

    Tastebuds - Detroya Angele

    Your Loss - Nina Addams

    The Acres - Grace Okyere-Fosu

Best Of The Best

    • Because I Love You

    • Bloodsuckers

    • Dirt

    • I replied with my heart

    • MEAT

    • Mimic

    • Requirements

    • The Contraception Fair

    • The Intimacy Coordinator

    • There In The World

    • Blue Hour

    • Gan Canny

    • How to Wash a Body, How to Cleanse a Soul

    • Jammy

    • Lonelier Than Love

    • Between Us

    • First Summer

    • I Am Not Your Dusky Maiden

    • Life is (a) Short

    • Night Feeds

    • Sauna Sickness

    • The Last Cheap House

    • Twosome

    • Woman Land

    • Women of Wampum

    • Each to their own World

    • Love Notes to Nature

    • New Ground

    • Swim Sistas

    • We Are Nature

    • Brain Space

    • Ovary-Acting

    • Statue in the Garden

    • Strokes of Wildflowers

    • The Hermit Crab

    • Barlebas

    • Hollywood Factory Reset

    • I Will Go On Missing You Till Then

    • KOBIKA

    • NIGHT FLOATER

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.