2023 Film Festival Winners.

Presenting the 2023 Film Festival Winning Films!

Congratulations to our 2023 Winning Filmmakers!

The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival is a women’s rights documentary film festival that celebrates women filmmakers  who are creating films that advocate for girls’ and women’s rights. Our online film festival promotes emerging women in film who believe in the power of filmmaking to promote gender equality globally. Through our online film festival, Women’s Voices Now supports women filmmakers around the world.

And the Winners Are...

With This Breath I Fly (Afghanistan)

A film by Samuel French (USA) & Clementine Malpas (UK)

Leslie J. Sacks Best Documentary Feature

Harvesting Our Tea (Turkey)

A film by Sheida Kiran (United Kingdom)

Best Documentary Short

The Neighborhood Storyteller (Jordan)

A film by Alejandra Alcala (Mexico)

Lantos Foundation Best Human Rights Documentary

A Very Happy Woman (Georgia)

A film by Tamar Giligashvili

Best Creative Documentary

Hermanos, Here We Are (Brazil)

A film by Jade Rainho

Best First-Time Filmmaker, Documentary Short

Among Us Women (Ethiopia)

A film by Sarah Noa Bozenhardt & Daniel Abate Tilahun

Best First Time Filmmaker, Documentary Feature

A Walk on My Own (Senegal)

A film by Ndèye Fatou Fall

Best Youth Documentary

Honorable Mentions...

Radiograph of a family

Radiograph of a Family (Iran)

A film by Firoozeh Khosrovani

No Such Right: The End of Roe in Appalachia (USA)

A film by Tate Greene, Rebekah McAuley, Sarah Sexton, & Deladis Haywood

My Sisters in the Stars: The Story of Lee Yong-soo (Korea)

A film by Ian Kim

Women's Voices Now Film  Award Ceremony - April 25th at 12 PM PST.