Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts

Mar 5, 2020

0h 59m

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Overview

Janina Ramirez presents a set of short films by talented, emerging artists who use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective. A Flourishing Crown; Afro Hair Rituals; Being Better; Born to Flex; Justin, What Have You Done to Us?; Searching for Cowardice; Vlogger; Where Are You From?; Femme Fatale

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Comedy

Drama

Music

Production Companies

BBC Scotland

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Cast

Self - Presenter

Janina Ramirez

In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver who helps him confront his past.

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Room for Two

Aug 31, 2019

Suspecting her partner of an affair, Helena goes to extreme lengths to discover the truth.

10.0

The Long Run

Mar 13, 2025

When two oddball strangers leave their lives behind to chase their Hollywood dreams, they discover that what they lack in talent, they make up for with determination and a shared delusion, leading to an unexpected friendship that will make them question the realities of chasing a dream.

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How Do I Tell You This

Feb 14, 2024

Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river that goes nowhere, they meet for the first time. Neither one knows that the other loves them.

7.0

Ghosted

Jun 8, 2023

GHOSTED is a British romantic comedy drama film in which an aspiring actress falls for a man on their first date.

7.0

The Call

Aug 8, 2023

During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.

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Sorry, We're Dead

Feb 10, 2024

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.

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Influence

Dec 2, 2023

A filmmaker struggling with her mental health reaches a breaking point and kidnaps a famous social media influencer in an attempt to coerce them into playing the lead in her latest project.

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Dating in Your 20s

Nov 7, 2025

The film’s protagonist nips to the toilet on a date, where she finds a band of puppets. The musical stream of consciousness paints a relatable and chaotic picture of what it is like to date in your 20s.

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The Artist

Dec 5, 2025

Flora, an art student, becomes frustrated with her most recent review.

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Pathless

Jan 13, 2023

A poetic translation of the universal feeling at one's unknown next step. It connects to the overwhelming periods of doubtful thoughts yet resilient ambition one may encounter. A visual and aural combination of fear yet fearlessness.

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In the Blood

Apr 14, 2022

A violent sneeze in church leaves a teenage girl confined to a claustrophobic bathroom stall, which grows more bloody and nightmarish by the minute, as she struggles to get a tampon.

1.0

How Brief

Jan 25, 2026

HOW BRIEF is a disappearing act set over the course of one night in 1962 when a restless woman returns to her childhood home for the last time, inspired by the music of singer-songwriter Connie Converse.

10.0

Alma

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Alma is a young film lover who dreams of one day making a living creating stories. Determined, she decides to go to the city to study film, but finding herself alone and without the care of her mother, she collides with the dangers of the big city, which makes her question whether she is following a good path or has just let herself be carried away by the illusion of a dream.

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My Favorite Murderer

Aug 10, 2025

A girl obsessed with true crime finds her perfect match.

7.0

Woman with an Editing Bench

Aug 1, 2016

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds.

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Visiting Birdie

Jul 28, 2024

Sixteen year old Sam explores her relationship with a new friend during an anxiety inducing day at Grandma's.

7.3

The Silence

May 18, 2016

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts

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