Winners’ List
Award for an Outstanding Professional Career of the 2025 Madrid Films by Women Festival. Zeltia Montes.
Award for Best International Film of the 2025 Madrid Films by Women Festival. Happy Birthday, by Sarah Goher (Egypt).
Special Mention of the Jury to the feature film Jakobs Ross (Songs Within), by Katalin Gödrös (Switzerland).
Award for Best Spanish Film of the Spanish Competition of the Madrid Films by Women Festival. Sorda, by Eva Libertad (Spain).
Baturu Award for the first or second feature film by a Novel Director 2025, Avelina Prat for Una quinta portuguesa (Spain).
In the 18 venues of the 8th edition, held from October 28th to November 9th, 2025, 62 films were screened (67 sessions), 26 of which were premieres, representing 42% of the programming: 1 premiere in Europe, 15 in Spain and 10 in Madrid). 49 were fiction feature films and 13 documentaries. In total 49 fictions, 13 documentaries (11 feature films) and 2 short films. The partnership with so many collaborating venues and entities enabled a rich and varied programming, a distinct trademark of the festival.
In terms of international significance, for two weeks the public could enjoy the best recent cinema produced in 17 countries from 4 continents: Austria, Belgium, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Palestine, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia
and the USA.
Since knowledge begins with recognition, in order to increase, train and attract new audiences, 13 professional activities were organised in 5 different venues: 7 round tables, 4 conversations and meetings, 1 lecture, 1 book presentation and 34 colloquia with directors, producers, and technicians from the audiovisual sector. In a total of 45 activities, including screenings and colloquia, 56 guests, 36 Spanish and 20 of other nationalities participated in the festival, of which 32 were directors, 18 experts and 6 actresses. They presented their work, talked to the public before and after the screenings on the subjects that have moved their creations, their personal vision of the industry and the changes that the film industry is experiencing in terms of equity.
Our official channels on YouTube Festival Cine por Mujeres Madrid and on Tik Tok, Festival Cine por Mujeres are a great opportunity to listen first-hand to these creators and professionals in the interviews, watch the summary videos of the 8th edition, as well as some of the professional and training activities.
The festival was once again throughout the Spanish territory, beyond the cinema theatres. On one hand, the local television network 8madridTV broadcast a special program made of 6 feature films by Spanish directors, while the independent film platform FILMIN, with an online window of the festival, broadcast 102 feature films from all previous editions, 12 of which were films belonging to the 8th edition.
