Feminist Film Festival 2025 in Les Lilas: Joyful and Committed Cinema
Why this article?
The feminist film festival returns for its fifth edition from October 8 to 12, 2025, at Le Garde-Chasse in Les Lilas (Paris area). Designed as a safe, festive, and critical space, it offers five days of screenings, debates, premieres, performances, workshops, and encounters — all centered around one common thread: joyful activism.
This unique cinematic event in the Île-de-France region stands out as one of the highlights of feminist cinema in 2025.
A bold and diverse program
Highly anticipated premieres
- Des preuves d’amour by Alice Douard
- Ma frère by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
- La petite dernière by Hafsia Herzi
Three films will be shown in preview as part of the feminist film festival, with the presence of their creators and cast.
Engaged documentaries and fiction
- Sisters With Transistors
- Girls for Tomorrow
- Fragments of a Love Story
- Love Me Tender
Intimate, political, and inspiring stories that reflect the heart of the feminist film festival.
An iconic patron: Aïssa Maïga
An actor and activist director, Aïssa Maïga embodies the spirit of the feminist festival: intersectional, inclusive, creative, and resolutely future-oriented.
Meetings, workshops, and community
Roundtable: “Joyful Activism”
The feminist magazine La Déferlante leads a discussion on the power of joy as a driver for resistance. With Tahnee, Sarah Durieux, Ludivine Bantigny, and more.
Creative and intergenerational workshops
- Feminist badge-making with Sophie from La Mutinerie
- Linocut poster-making with La Mère Encrée
Pop-up bookstore and creators’ village
Zines, posters, books, activist crafts — an entire independent creative scene is celebrated.
Closing night in music
A DJ set by Vickies (Vénus Club) will close the feminist film festival in a joyful and inclusive atmosphere.
A powerful 2025 edition
This feminist film festival 2025 proves how cinema can fuel activism, create spaces of sorority, and shape new imaginaries. Through the films, voices are shared, memory is made, and resistance is passed on. Joy, here, becomes a political strategy.
A call to the community
Which film moved you? What encounter inspired you? Share your experience of the feminist film festival 2025 in the comments or on our social media!
