Women Who Terrify Short Film Strand C

A curated short film screening showcasing bold, unsettling, and visionary work by women, gender-diverse, non-binary, and intersex filmmakers, followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Dr Máiréad Casey exploring their creative processes, themes, and the power of terror as a storytelling tool.

I Can’t Go On

12:40

Wri/Dir: Laoisa Sexton

Ireland

A kid's party entertainer must go to extraordinary heights to escape a house of horror.

Voyeur

5:52

Dir: Maryam Hashempour

Wri: Mohammadreza Seif

Islamic Republic of Iran

A girl enters a coffee shop while waiting for her friend. An unknown number sends her a photo of her, taken just before she enters the coffee shop. The unknown person sends the photo several times until…

you're not perfect

11:33

Wri/Dir: Mary O'Leary

Ireland

This film demonstrate how societal expectations can influence one’s identity and to gain a deeper understanding of how certain aspects of societal norms shape our lives. This is my intense perspective on societal expectations from birth.

All Well. All Good. All Perfect.

11:28

Dir: Dubheasa Lanipekun

Wri: Dubheasa Lanipekun, Lara Agius

A visit to a peculiar fertility clinic becomes anything but routine for expectant mother Diana, as she is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child.

Recipe

11:00

Dir: Marissa Aroy

Wri: Niall McKay

Philippines / Ireland

Socorro, a domestic worker, heads home to the Philippines when her daughter goes missing, only to discover the bigger threat to her family's well-being is her husband's gambling addiction to cockfighting.

Repertoire of Death

5:35

Dir: Guadalupe Arellanes

United States

A lucid dream leads to a dance with Death.Photographed on 16mm, Repertoire of Death blends found sounds with rarely heard music from the personal archives of Yma Sumac, "Queen of Exotica", in order to blur the boundaries between past/present, dead/alive, and dream/waking.

Hellwriting

0:59

Dir: Abril Garcia, Guilliana Ramirez

Spain

Watch out for the bad handwriting.

on leaving you

9:09

Wri/Dir: Vanessa Gildea

Ireland

on leaving you is a personal experimental short film that examines the cyclical nature of departure and memory, of death and rebirth, and personal complicity in the horror of living, suggesting that what we attempt to leave behind inevitably reappears in the places we arrive.

In the Season Thereof

15:00

Wri/Dir: Nadia Moosa

United StatesThrown into a new town senior year, Mark has left Utah, the Mormon Church, and a two-parent household. He quickly falls for a local girl, but as religious guilt and obsession consume him, he's left with nothing but a lingering citrus stench.

Wrath

9:05

Wri/Dir: Suri Grennell

Ireland

At the precipice of womanhood and plagued with foreboding dreams, Maria must confront the mistrust of her family as a strange epidemic sweeps through Ireland.

Exuviae

2:35

Wri/Dir: Anne Ciecko

United States

The latest unexpected interspecies home "invasion" and resultant sleepless nights lead to recognition of the fragility of bodies, precarious existences and escape impulses, abject entrapments and perilous material accretions: the parallel and intersecting lives of humans and insects.

Host Bio: Máiréad Casey is a Lecturer in Film & Television Studies with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media a post-doctoral researcher and project manager for the H2021 MSCA-funded Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) doctoral network. Her research interests include representations of sexual violence onscreen, representations of feminist activism and networked misoyny as well as supernatural horror. She is an organising member of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies and moderates it's monthly online film club. She is a committee member for Irish Screen Studies Seminar series and an Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Irish Screen Studies Journal. Her upcoming monography Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema is scheduled for publication with the University of Wales Press in February 2026.

Taking place on 30th - 31st January at Griffith College Dublin, the Imbolg Women Who Terrify Film Festival will celebrate women who terrify, both on screen and behind the camera. As winter draws to a close, this coven of creatives and connoisseurs will gather to mark the Celtic festival of Imbolg. This two-day film festival, is proudly hosted in partnership with Griffith College Dublin, and focuses the lens on the rage, resilience, and creative work of women, gender-diverse, non-binary, and intersex storytellers.

Read more about this festival here.

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Griffith College

Griffith College Dublin, one of Ireland’s leading independent third-level institutions, is proud to host Imbolg: Women Who Terrify Film Festival on its Dublin campus. With a strong focus on film, media, journalism, design and creative practice, Griffith College supports emerging and established voices through industry-led education, live events and community partnerships.

Learn more about Griffith College’s full-time and part-time creative courses at griffith.ie

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Griffith College Dublin Main Campus, South Circular Road, Dublin 8, Ireland

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