Gandhara Independent Film Festival

About

Empowered WOMXN, 2025 (Online)

Back for the fourth time, GIFF is excited to present Empowered WOMXN 2025. This event celebrates the stories, strengths, and journeys of women through films created by female filmmakers, celebrating International Women’s Day with powerful stories from around the world.

Categories
Narrative Shorts

*there is no submission fee to submit a film

Awards

Certificates & Official Laurel

Rules

Criteria & Categories

The festival theme is open in the category narrative shorts.

The duration of the narrative short (up to 45 min) including credits with English subtitles.

The participating films of the festival will be selected by the festival programmers. All selections will be posted on our website & social media pages.

Content Guidelines

Content of the submitted film(s) should be creative and completely original and should not infringe on any copyrights or any other rights of any third parties.

Under no circumstances should the content of the films contain any offensive language, violence, religious content or hate speech, defamatory content, politically sensitive topics, material or comment, and sexual innuendos or nudity.

Any film containing one or more of the above-mentioned will be disqualified.

Submission Rules

All films must have been made from 2023 onwards.

All submissions must be sent to our submission platform via Festhome

Please include a press kit (short trailer, stills, logline, synopsis, cast, and crew bios) where possible, to help speed up the process and ensure that you read all the Terms & Conditions at the bottom of the page before making your submission.

Promotional Material
The festival may use up to 10 percent of the entry’s running time for promotional purposes.

Terms and Conditions

By entering 4th edition of Empowered WOMXN by Gandhara Independent Film Festival 2025, you agree to follow its rules and guidelines.

1 - The festival theme is open.

2 - There is no entry fee to submit a film.

3 - All films must have been made from 2023 onwards.

4 - The film should contain subtitles in English.

5 - There is no restriction on the number of films that can be submitted by an individual or an entity. However, each submitted film requires a separate submission form.

6 - By sending your submission to participate in our festival, you agree that your trailer & posters will be uploaded on our website and our social networks pages.

7 - The festival has the right to screen these films on any collaboration festival or media.

8 - All copyrights and intellectual properties belong to their authors and will be properly quoted.

9 - The festival will not bear any expenses for participants nor provide any screening fees.

10 - Submitting your film to the GIFF is not a guarantee of selection.

11 - GIFF will communicate all details through emails only, please provide an authorized email and respond to emails ASAP. No phone call inquiries.

12 - All filmmakers will be notified via email of acceptance.

13 - The decision of the festival programmers is final and not questionable.

14 - The festival organizers reserve the right to suspend and/or modify the festival if necessary.

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Cirque Films