13 September 2025
Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) champions and showcases the work of older women on screen and behind the camera with an annual short film festival and year-round events and film screenings, and we’re delighted to be hosting their 2025 festival right here at Depot.
This is the 11th edition of the festival and it promises to be a joyful day for anyone – all ages and genders welcome – who loves to watch fascinating and surprising films. If you want to be part of building a more equal, inclusive world, then join us on 13th September for a fantastic day of films and fun!
We’ll be updating this page with more exciting information as it gets revealed, so do check back frequently or bookmark this page!
Saturday 13 September 2025
Image credits Sharon Kilgannon.
With fun, fearless and real stories by and about women over 50, WOFFF champions and showcases the work of older women on screen and behind the camera
Join us at the 11th Women Over 50 Film Festival at Depot this September, for:
– three programmes packed with award-winning international short films: animation, comedy, documentary, experimental and drama
– a panel event with special guests
– the Awards Ceremony celebrating outstanding filmmakers and writers
WOFFF25 Angel Pass
Be an angel and sprinkle some joy on WOFFF in its 11th year!
You can add a £25 donation by choosing the WOFFF25 Angel Donation option from the ticketing screen. This gift will go directly to WOFFF, helping the festival grow and supporting its future.
WOFFF Angels will have their names listed in the WOFFF25 programme and on the WOFFF website.
WOFFF ALL DAY PASS
Sat 13 September
All Day Festival Pass which gives you access to all of the paid-for WOFFF events at Depot – Programme 1, 2, 3 and Panel Event!
WOFFF Session 1 - Disruptors
11:00 (75mins)
There’s a joy in breaking stuff. There are guides to help us break through. Walk the edge of the path with a miner, a vampire and an old Whistler’s Mother gal.
Followed by filmmaker Q&A
Films in this programme:
Old Girl in a Tutu: Susan Rennie Disrupts Art History | Dir: Cheri Gaulke | USA | 2025 | Documentary | 8min
Olga’s Eyes | Dir: Sarah Carlot Jaber | Belgium | 2023 | Drama | 22min
The Tale of Mari | Dir: Anya Vaughn | USA | 2024 | Animation | 7min
A Burning Turret | Dir: Humberto Flores | Mexico | 2025 | Drama | 22min
We’re All Black Down Here | Dir: James William Mellors | UK | 2024 | Drama | 15min
WOFFF Session 2 - Home and abroad
13:00 (75 mins)
Where is your heart at home? Where is it safe to lay your head? The work of creating and preserving belonging never ends. Photographer or lover or healer – there are ways of weaving connection.
Followed by filmmaker Q&A.
Films in this programme:
Gossip/Clecs | Dir: Harri Shanahan | UK | 2024 | Animation | 2min
Of All The Things | Dir: Steff Lee | UK | 2025 | Animation | 8min
The Pearl Comb | Dir: Ali Cook | UK | 2024 | Drama | 21min
Holding Stone | Dir: Evie Bulloch | UK | 2025 | Animation | 2min
The Illustrated Woman | Dir: Isabel Hergura | India, Spain | 2023 | Animation | 8min
My Dad, Guyana and Me | Dir: Noella Letitia Mingo | Guyana, UK | 2025 | Documentary | 9min
Journey Back to Alcedo | Dir: Gianna Haro Vallazza | Ecuador | 2024 | Documentary | 24min
WOFFF Session 3 - Living Legends
17:00 (74 mins)
What does vocation look like? A woman’s body shaped by dance, the hands of an artist. The desire to heal and to connect – and to deliver the milk with a kind word.
Followed by filmmaker Q&A.
Films in this programme:
A Year of Hands | Dir: Cally Trench | UK | 2024 | Experimental | 1min
Visible Mending | Dir: Samantha Moore | UK | 2023 | Documentary | 8min
Pegs & Bacon | Dir: Sarah Nicola Mason | UK | 2025 | Documentary | 9min
The Architect of the Liminal | Dir: Deb Ethier | Canada | 2024 | Experimental | 3min
Ode to Age | Dir: Kati Kallio | Finland | 2024 | Experimental | 8min
RISA| Dir: Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin | USA | 2024 | Documentary | 21min
Chai-Coffi | Dir: Sanjoli Malani | India | 2023 | Drama | 23min
In Conversation With Felicity Montagu
15:30
Join us for a celebration of acclaimed British actor and WOFFF Matron Felicity Montagu.
This special “In Conversation With” will reflect on Felicity’s career in TV, film and theatre. From Alan Partridge, The Durrells and her current role in Beyond Paradise to Bridget Jones’s Diary and her work at the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre.
You won’t want to miss this conversation hosted by BBC World Service presenter Rebecca Kesby.
WOFFF25 Awards Ceremony
18:45
Close out a fantastic day with WOFFF at Depot with our free-to-attend awards ceremony.
Celebrate with us as the top animation, drama, documentary, experimental, student films and the best short scripts are announced.
We’ll also be screening one final film to send us on our way:
Somber Tides | Dir: Chantal Caron | Canada | 2024 | Experimental | 12min
This event is free, but booking is required.
Fast & Furious Screenwriting: WOFFF special
Saturday 27 September
10:15 – 16:15
18+
£59.00
Ever wanted to write a short screenplay with a strong, uncompromising female protagonist (or antagonist?). This is your chance!
About Scriptease
Scriptease is led by playwright Sara Clifford (www.inroads.org.uk) and filmmaker Lisa Fulthorpe (www.fireflyfilm.co.uk) who are both experienced teachers in their fields and who love bringing stories to life for the stage and screen.
These courses are fun, experimental and suitable for both beginners and more experienced writers. So if you’ve ever wanted to write a script come and give it a go!
The F-Rating is a film rating which is awarded to films directed by and/or written by women. If the film also starts significant women in their own right, the film is Triple F-Rated, our gold standard.
The aim of the rating is to highlight films where the main person telling the story is a woman; to encourage film exhibitors to F-Rate their programme; to help film goers easily find films directed and written by women and ultimately to change the stories we see on screen – and therefore influence our culture making it more equal.
Following on from the Hollywood Report which in 2013 showed that fewer than 5% of the top 200 films were directed by women we wanted to ignite discussion about who is telling the stories we see on screen as well as looking into the roles of women on screen.
And so the F-Rating was born.