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PRISME FÉMININ
« Prisme féminin » est dédié aux films réalisés par des femmes ou portant sur des expériences féminines. Cette catégorie vise à amplifier les voix des femmes cinéastes et à raconter des histoires qui reflètent la diversité des expériences des femmes dans le monde. C'est un espace pour explorer et célébrer la perspective féminine dans le cinéma, en promouvant l'égalité des sexes et la représentation.
 MangoDirector/Writer: Joan Iyiola Producers: Laura Jumel, Alison Holder, Mary Iyiola, Joan Iyiola Director of Photography: Yinka Edward Editors: Xanna Ward Dixon, Patrick Walsh United Kingdom / 2025 / 11' Fiction Zadie is an independent florist who is privately suffering from fibroids but is determined to take her career to the next level. When a dream job arrives, Zadie searches for help in order to control her morphing body, but the unwanted growths threaten to take over. |  Three Black MenDirector: Sienna McLean-LoGreco Producers: Kurt Schemper, Victoria Santos, Sienna McLean-LoGreco United States / 2026 / 99' Documentary Can Blackness escape the violence of its origins? Three Black men embark on a transformative journey along the transatlantic slave route in reverse. |  CarabaliDirector/Writer: Medhin Tewolde Producer: Daniela Contreras, Nicolas Défossé Mexico / 2026 / 18'20 Documentary An Afro-Colombian community leader is threatened and forced into exile. Far from his land and family, Carabalí resists in displacement, clinging to the hope of returning one day to the place where he belongs. |
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 KanekalonDirector/Writer: Sara J. Asprilla Producer: Karol Mora Albarracin Colombia / 2025 / 12'30 Fiction Teyo, a trans girl, gets ready to start at her new all-girls school. As she journeys through Quibdó, a warm and vibrant city, she navigates the rhythms and gazes that greet her before stepping into class. |  ApoloDirectors: Tainá Müller, Ísis Broken Writers: Tainá Müller, Tatiana Lohmann, Ísis Broken, Lourenzo Duvale Producers: Bianca Villar, Eduardo Rez Brazil / 2025 / 83' Documentary Apolo follows the journey of a family formed by a transgender couple, revealing the nuances of love, daily life, and the constant struggle for recognition and respect. The documentary offers an intimate look into their family dynamics, inviting us to rethink our notions of affection, care, and society itself. |  Father's DayDirector/Writer: Ayana O'Shun Producers: Ayana O'Shun, Bianca Bellange Canada / 2025 / 74' Documentary Father's Day is an intimate and powerful documentary that explores the legacy of absent fathers in Black communities across North America and the Caribbean. |
 BerthaDirector/Writer: Laura Asprilla Producer: Laura Asprilla Colombia / 2025 / 12'44 Fiction ULDA (65) refuses to take charge of her macho husband's funeral because he died in another woman's bed. At home, only Bertha, a mischievous goat, remains as her companion while she returns to the woman she once was. |  Concrete MovesDirector/Writer: Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Producers: Chloe Ortolé Diop, Fagamou Fama Ndiaye Senegal / 2025 / 12' Experimental Concrete Moves is inspired by a childhood memory: the fear triggered by a snake during a school trip to the Mamelles lighthouse in Dakar. Returning to that same hill decades later. |  AltaNegraDirectors: Raiza De La Hoz, Daniela Ponce Writers: Caridad Brito, Raiza De La Hoz, Daniela Ponce Producers: Natalia Bolaño, Aldair Rodriguez, Selena Toro, Andrés Betín, Andrea Almazo, Biulida Pérez Colombia / 2025 / 25'59 Fiction In a territory marked by promises of equality and realities of exclusion, being young, Black, and from a rural community becomes an act of everyday resistance. |
 One SundayDirector: Day Sena Writer: Amós Heber Producers: Marcos Alexandre, Day Sena Brazil / 2026 / 20' Fiction One Sunday tells the story of a possible encounter between Samuel and a stray bullet. The bullet comes from a gunshot fired in the favela where Samuel lives. On a sunny Sunday, Samuel decides to take advantage of his day off to go to the beach. |  LAUNDRY (Uhlanjululo)Director/Writer: Zamo Mkhwanazi Producers: Philippe Coeytaux, Zamo Mkhwanazi, Jim Stark, Nicolas Wadimoff, Marco Orsini South Africa / 2025 / 105' Fiction South Africa, 1968. Apartheid is the law of the land. Khuthala, a talented young musician, wants nothing to do with his family's laundry business. He dreams of jazz, of a life shaped by music, not by soap and steam. |  A King DisplacedDirector/Writer: Olayinka Eno Babalola Producer: Olayinka Eno Babalola Nigeria / 2026 / 19'57 Documentary Daniel Hungbeji navigates his daily life both as a fisherman and as a traditional ruler within the water settlement of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria. |
 Happy MealDirector/Writer: Johanna Makabi Producers: Sonia Makabi, Juliette Schrameck France / 2025 / 19'50 Fiction DOM, 32, is undergoing therapy. As the Christmas holidays come to an end, he is granted, for the first time in years, the right to spend a day alone with his daughters. A precious day... that he dreads seeing come to an end. |  La TinajaDirectors/Writers: Ernestina Miranda, Mar Ajé Producer: Madre Monte Colombia / 2025 / 13'47'' Experimental Where do we keep our memories? Where do they endure? How do we evoke them? An epiphany dispels forgetfulness and reconstructs the bond between Esther, the protagonist, and her ancestors through the world of dreams, her mother's memories, and the restoration of an inherited clay vessel. |  A Cor da PatroaDirector: Milena Anjos Writer: Leandro Souza Producer: Heraldo de Deus Brazil / 2026 / 24'48 Fiction With classes suspended due to police tension in retaliation for a community protest, a child accompanies his mother on a workday as a domestic worker and is surprised to meet her employer. |
 HyphenDirector: Reine Razzouk Producer: Reine Razzouk Associate Producer: Maria Termanini Cinematographer: Rachelle Noja Production Designer: Issa Kandil Editors: Zeina Aboul Hosn, Reine Razzouk Music & Sound Design: Karim Khneisser Lebanon / 2023 / 98' Documentary When Nicole reveals to her childhood friend and cousin, Reine, that she's been addicted to heroin since she was 13, they decide to document Nicole's rehab journey. Hyphen follows her struggle to move out into the world as an adult. |  Leer en las gotas de lluviaDirectors: Lilián Pallares, Charles Olsen Writer: Xisca Minart Producer: Antenablue Spain / 2025 / 10'24 Experimental An Angolan artist and mother, her four-year-old daughter, and a New Zealand painter create imaginary worlds in new lands. These find echo in the poem by Xisca Minart, Read in Raindrops. |  NunkuiDirector/Writer: Verenice Benitez Producer: Isabela Parra Ecuador / 2025 / 90' Fiction Nunkui lives in a Shuar community and dreams of the feminine spirit of the garden, also called Nunkui, just like her. While her aunt teaches her songs and the secrets of cultivation, the vast Amazon rainforest they call home is handed over to transnational mining companies, and evictions begin in the area. |
 When the world broke openDirector/Writer: Desiree Mbakumua Meiffret Producers: Vickson Hangula, Desiree Mbakumua Meiffret, Veundja Katuuo United States / 2026 / 29'59 Fiction At the height of the 1904 Herero and Nama genocide in German South West Africa, a young, pregnant Herero woman named Jorokee flees the smoldering ruins of her village with her husband Unomuinjo... |  Viva YurumanguíDirectors: Emma Christopher, Sergio Leyva Seiglie Writer: Emma Christopher Producer: Emma Christopher Cinematography: Javier Labrador Deulofeu, Sergio Leyva Seiglie, Yerson Arroyo Arroyo Editor: María Alejandra Briganti, Irene Cajias Sound Editor: Isabel Torres Reyes Colombia / 2025 / 80' Documentary On the remote Pacific coast of Colombia, the inhabitants of the Yurumanguí palenque still fight for freedom, hundreds of years after their ancestors fled slavery. |  Manman ChadwonDirector/Writer: Gwladys Gambie Martinique / 2022 / 10'13 Experimental An anthem to fantastic femininity, to life, to freedom, and to metamorphosis, at once intimate and revolutionary. It is a sensory chant, a dreamlike reflection on the feminine condition within a destructive masculine world. |
 Soñé su nombreDirector: Ángela Carabalí Colombia / 2025 / 85' Documentary After 30 years denying her pain, Ángela is confronted by her past when her father appears to her in a dream, asking her to find him. With her sister Juliana, she embarks on a journey across Colombia to the Indigenous lands... |
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