BxFW: December 2025

Tune in for a slate of women-directed short films that delve into themes of loss, technology, and personal connections. The lineup features a wide range of narratives, including a woman photographer’s story, a futuristic tale on robotics ethics, and more!

 

Cut Off | Dir. Emily Ryan I Australia I 14 Minutes
A young woman and her mother reconnect after a car accident that killed her father and left her blind.

 

Roboethics I Director: Rut Angelina I 5 minutes I Tenerife

When should you start treating a robot like a person? Lara and Sergio will soon discover that a human guardian can be more dangerous than an artificial one, since robots may react more humanly than humans themselves.

 

Artificial Bid I Director: Shira Haimovici I 10 minutes I UK
In the nearer future, Eve, a chatterbox yet lonely elderly lady, gets a humanoid robot as a replacement to her bridge partner who just passed away. What turns to be not the best idea.

 

Dare Not Fly I Director: CHUYI CHEN I Taiwan I 10 minutes
Shen Si Yan, who lived under the strong fetters of her mother, was like a bird blindfolded, but could not fly. When it comes to daily chores, friends, work and mate are all interfered. Even if words have stepped out of society, mother still does not allow her to make her own choices. How can she survive without compromise, loss of self thinking, and mother who is bent on loving her daughter?

 

MILK I Director: Pennie Hunt. I New Zealand I 16:37 minutes

January 1945: on a lonely farm in coastal New Zealand, a young widow confronts two crewmen from a German submarine who have come ashore on a secret mission – to get fresh milk.

 

Films include subtitles.