Dublin Feminist Film Festival

Dublin Feminist Film Festival has established firm roots on Dublin’s cultural calendar since 2014, shining a spotlight on women in film. DFFF promotes and celebrates female filmmakers, hoping to inspire and empower others to get involved in filmmaking.

This involves considering women on-screen, but also behind the camera, through the dual-aspect of celebrating and showcasing fantastic female filmmaking, as well as demonstrating that women make compelling and complex characters and subjects. DFFF is a celebratory festival and our commitment to inclusive art is reflected in the programme each year, showcasing a range of work, from documentary to drama, short form to feature, including work by women from a variety of national, ethnic, and class backgrounds. Anywhere and everywhere that we mention ‘women’ we mean anyone who identifies as a woman.

After taking a Covid-19-related hiatus in 2020, we are returning with a hybrid festival for 2021. Our feature selections will be presented online, but - depending on government restrictions and the status of cinemas in Ireland - we hope to have live, in-person screenings of our shorts programme. This year's festival will be run in conjunction with the Irish Film Institute.

To reflect new networks of support that have developed over the past year, the theme of this year's festival is CARE and CONNECTION. We would love to see shorts that touch on that theme in a variety of ways. As with past festivals, shorts needn't fit the theme exactly, although preference will be give to those that do.