https://www.festivalfilministes.com/edition-2025-ff
https://www.festivalfilministes.com/2025-filministes-pour-emporter
https://www.tenk.ca/en/documentaires/festival-filministes-2025/contractions
For its 8th edition the Festival Filministes is once again offering a program entirely dedicated to cinema and the art of under-represented people, both in front of and behind the camera.
This year’s resonate with current political events, portraying singular and collective struggles and bring to the screen singular and collective struggles, resilient and committed communities, and solidarity networks that reflect the multiplicity of feminist positions. For us, feminism is about solidarity with all, and in the current unsettling political and social climate, we want to emphasize the importance of put forward marginalized voices and reiterate our support for the LGBTQI2SA+, racialized, Black and Aboriginal communities.
If the worrying rise of far-right rhetoric proves one thing, it’s that we need more than ever spaces to come together, to discuss and reflect on what unites us and makes us stronger.
That’s why the Festival Filministes invites you to a celebration of feminist cinema through a program a rich program of powerful, moving and hopeful films.
Tënk Canada is a solidarity cooperative based in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal dedicated to the promotion of creative documentary cinema. Through curation and cultural mediation, Tënk’s mandate is to make this film genre more accessible and to encourage the discovery of socially important documentaries that sometimes struggle to reach their audience.
A word from Tënk on Contractions:
Contractions is a much-needed film in the current political climate, as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Offering an intimate look at abortion rights, this experimental short exposes the poignant testimonies of people directly connected to a clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. As we observe the slow march of women and their allies to the clinic, the voices of an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist echo the disastrous consequences of ending women’s right to a safe, legal abortion in the United States. In the film, it’s the strength of community that shines through, as these people can no longer make decisions for their own bodies.