F-Rated

The F-Rating

Diversity statistics across the industry are extremely poor: 17% of the top-grossing films in 2022 had a female screenwriter attached, and only 11% employed a female director.

Despite recent publicity suggesting equality in cinema is on the rise, statistics show very little growth or improvement, both in the UK & overseas. The F-Rating is a response to this, designed to support and promote women in film, both on and off-screen.

The F-Rating will be applied to all films in our programme which are directed by women and/or written by women and/or have significant women on screen:

F-Rated: Either directed by a woman and/or written by a woman and/or starring significant women
Triple F-Rated: Directed by a woman AND written by a woman AND starring significant women

About The F-Rating

Developed by Bath Film Festival and now expanding across the UK, the F-Rating is a new film rating which highlight films made by and featuring women.

Any film that answers yes to one of these questions is awarded the F-Rating stamp of approval.

Does it have a female director?
Is it written by a woman?
Are there significant female characters on screen in their own right?

The aims of the F-Rating are:

To champion women in film and highlight the fantastic work they are doing.
To encourage conversation around who tells the stories we see on screen – and whether that matters.
To act like a Fairtrade stamp, giving the audience an opportunity to #VoteWithYourSeat, and support women in film.

Find out more at f-rated.org, on Facebook or @F_Rating on Twitter

F-Rated Films

Family Time: Robot Dreams PG: No dialogue; This week at Family Time, the wordless adventures of Dog and Robot in 1980’s New York City will make you laugh and cry. Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.

Baby Kino: Hoard 18: English; This Baby Kino screening is exclusively for parents or guardians accompanying babies aged under one year old. Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish.

Hoard 18: English; Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.

Nezouh + Q&A 12A: Arabic with English Subtitles; 14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world.

DocNights: Long Distance Swimmer - Sara Mardini CTBA: German, English, Arabic and Greek with English subtitles; Sheffield DocFest present a special screening of Long Distance Swimmer - Sara Mardini, following the Syrian swimmer who pulled the boat that carried her and another 18 refugees to safety.

Early Doors: Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg 15: English; Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg is a portrait of a dazzling and irrepressible woman who helped create the DNA of rock ‘n’ roll.

Slow 15: Lithuanian with English subtitles; Lithuania's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, Slow is a modern love story about two people exploring how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Showroom Classics: Happy as Lazzaro 12A: Italian with English subtitles; Showroom Cinema celebrates the May release of Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera by returning her beloved modern masterpiece, Happy as Lazarro.

Rosalie 15: French with English Subtitles; France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair.

Baby Kino: Slow 15: Lithuanian with English subtitles; This Baby Kino screening is exclusively for parents or guardians accompanying babies aged under one year old. A modern love story about two people exploring how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Young Programmers Takeover: Clueless 12A: English; A stylish, sardonic 90s makeover of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’. Come for baby-faced Paul Rudd, stay for the catty teen politics of uppercrust high schoolers.

Tiger Stripes 15: Malay with English Subtitles; Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Tiger Stripes is a bold Malay-language body-horror from Amanda Nell Eu.

Climate Realities: You Never Know One Day You Too Might Become a Refugee + Q&A 18: English; Set in an imagined future, this film explores the humanitarian, ethical, legal, and political issues surrounding climate change-induced migration and displacement.

Early Doors: Slow 15: Lithuanian with English subtitles; Lithuania's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, Slow is a modern love story about two people exploring how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Family Time Preview: Oink PG: Dutch with English Subtitles; When 9-year-old Babs receives a pig as a present, she is allowed to keep it under the condition he attends puppy-training. Catch a special preview of this award-winning Dutch stop-motion adventure at this week’s Family Time!

Climate Realities: In The Shadow of Light (A la Sombra de la Luz) 18: Spanish with English Subtitles; Set in the small Chilean town of Charrua, this film looks at the impact of its neighbouring electrical power plant on the local community.

Sheffield Film Festival: Mother, Country – World Premiere + Q&A 18: Spanish with English subtitles & English; Showroom Cinema is proud to present the world premiere of Pablo Navarrete’s Mother, Country (El país de mi madre) followed by a Q&A with the director and his mother, who features in the film.

La Chimera 15: Italian with English subtitles; A British archaeologist, mourning a long-lost love, works with a group of grave robbers hunting ancient Etruscan treasures to sell on the black market in 1980s Italy.

Young Programmers Takeover: Jennifer’s Body 15: English; When a satanic ritual backfires, the sacrificial cheerleader Jennifer Check is possessed by a man-eating succubus. Her best friend Needy must stop her cannibalistic murder spree. Fifteen years on, the film has become a cult favourite.

Showroom Classics: The Matrix – 25th Anniversary 15: English; A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

T A P E presents SNAPSHOT: Drylongso 15: English; Pica is an art student who lives with her family in Oakland. As an outlet for her dysfunctional home life, she photographs African American men with the belief they are an "endangered species".

Love Lies Bleeding 15: English; Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Young Programmers Takeover: The Babadook 15: English; A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg 15: English; Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg is a portrait of a dazzling and irrepressible woman who helped create the DNA of rock ‘n’ roll.

Baby Kino: Rosalie 15: French with English Subtitles; This Baby Kino screening is exclusively for parents or guardians accompanying babies aged under one year old. France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair.

Early Doors: Rosalie 15: French with English Subtitles; France, 1870s. Rosalie is a young woman unlike any other. She hides a secret: she was born with a face and body covered in hair.