Women Rock The World - Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Who runs the world? Step into stories of queens, dreamers and vengeful angels. Wherever these women are stifled they will find a way to realise their goals; be it in the sphere of career, the perfect holiday, manifesting romance from the sky or just finding a place to pee. Underestimate them at your peril.

Total length: 93 min

Rating: M Violence, drug use, offensive language, sex scenes, nudity, sexual content & content that may disturb

The films are:

Kingmaker - Tami Neilson

Music video, 3 mins, New Zealand

This music video for Tami Neilson's Kingmaker features a group of women, alive and powerful, rising from the ashes of the old colonial institutions that once oppressed them.

Dir: Alyx Duncan

Prod: Emma Mortimer

The Miracle

Animation, 15 mins, Belgium

40-year-old Irma goes on a vacation to an all-inclusive resort. Soon after her arrival she realizes the place is meant for young families.

Dir/Writ: Nienke Deutz

Prod: Annemie Degryse

House of Whoreship

Drama, 16 mins, Australia

Brothel worker Violet returns to work post break-up only to find her recent ex-girlfriend hustling the same shift.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Holly Laura Bates

Prod: Kristen Augeard

My Eyes Are Up Here

Romance, 14 mins, United Kingdom

A disabled woman sets off on a mission to get the morning after pill. The only thing in her way is... everything.

Dir: Nathan Morris

Writ: Aminder Virdee, Arthur Meek

Prod: Katie Dolan, Vanessa Muir, Naomi Wallwork

Martingale

Comedy, 16 mins, France

Océane has finally found a job for the summer and with it, the martingale (probability theory) to make the ideal man fall from the sky.

Dir/Writ: Marthe Verdet

Prod: Nolita Yoann Scherb

F**k Me, Richard

Drama, 15 mins, Australia

A romance-obsessed loner finds herself swept up in a passionate long-distance love affair. Richard is perfect in every way, except that he may be a scammer.

Dir/Prod: Charles Polinger

Dir/Writ/Prod: Lucy McKendrick

Prod: Jenna Grossano

Pissen aufs Patriarchat (Piss on Patriarchy)

Revenge fantasy, 10 mins, Germany

Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee urgently, but the toilet at the rest stop is broken. An increasingly absurd odyssey through a toxic male biotope begins.

Dir/Writ/Prod: Lena Fakler