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

Hoard + Q&A 18: English; This opening-night screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer-director Luna Carmoon and producer Helen Simmons.

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.

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry 15: Georgian with English subtitles; Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, never wanted a husband. She cherishes her freedom as much as her cakes. But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers.

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.

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.

Marisa Abela dressed as Amy Winehouse sings into a microphone

Back to Black 15: English; The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her ground-breaking album, Back to Black, that catapulted Winehouse to global fame.

Preview: Love Lies Bleeding 15: English; MASSIVE Cinema presents a special preview of Love Lies Bleeding, an electric love story from Saint Maud director Rose Glass and starring Kristen Stewart.

Early Doors: 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.

Climate Realities: Razing Liberty Square 18: English; Razing Liberty Square explores the impact of rising sea levels on the Black community of Liberty Square in Miami.

Happy as Lazzaro 12A: A luminous magic-realist fable that doubles as an origin myth for a modern Italy consumed by corruption and decline.

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.

Yvonne Rainer Season Pass 18: Full Season Pass for Showroom's Yvonne Rainer season.

Tiger Stripes CTBA: 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.

Relaxed Screening: 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.

Elaha 15: German with English Subtitles; Elaha is a young Kurdish-German woman facing a dilemma just weeks away from her wedding. Milena Aboyan’s feature debut is a compelling character portrait and feminist journey of identity and self-discovery.

Baby Kino: La Chimera 15: Italian with English subtitles; This Baby Kino screening is exclusively for parents or guardians accompanying babies aged under one year old. A British archaeologist works with a group of grave robbers hunting ancient Etruscan treasures to sell on the black market in 1980s Italy.

Family Time Preview: Oink CTBA: 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.

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.

Baby Kino: Love Lies Bleeding 15: English; This Baby Kino screening is exclusively for parents or guardians accompanying babies aged under one year old. Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream.

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.

Early Doors: 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.

Yvonne Rainer: MURDER and murder 18: English; Yvonne Rainer’s last feature finds the filmmaker in highly personal form as she draws on her own experiences of breast cancer, in a leftfield rom com which explores the joys of late in life lesbian love.