SFFILM’s celebrated collaboration with the New York Times continues into its tenth year to present another showcase of their award-winning short-form documentary series, NYT Op-Docs. This year, SFFILM has curated five films that provocatively explore the complex and precarious spaces that various women occupy in an ever-modernizing world. The constant ebb and flow of progress and regression characterizes these stories of perseverance in the midst of trauma and heartache, collision with antiquated tradition, the murkiness of a new digital frontier, a fight for bodily self-determination, and a friendship uncompromised by generational boundaries. As women continue to fight for autonomy globally, we invite you to this appropriately bold addition to our festival program.
—Jordan Klein

Films are listed in order of play.

Christmas, Every Day
Faye Tsakas, USA 2024, 14 min
A quotidian exploration of what it means to be an influencer, from the perspective of two tween girls from rural Alabama

A Move
Elahe Esmaili, Iran 2024, 26 min
Iranian filmmaker Elahe Esmaili challenges long-standing cultural norms when she arrives at her family’s gathering without a hijab.

Contractions
Lynne Sachs, USA 2023, 12 min
Reproductive rights activists present a timely and poetic expression of grief and dismay in the midst of the overturning of Roe v Wade.

The Final Chapter
Frøydis Fossli Moe, Norway 2024, 14 min
Frøydis receives a phone call that her father is dying from cancer, which forces her to confront her past traumas experienced during her upbringing.

Madeleine
Raquel Sancinetti, Canada 2023, 15 min
Madeleine stubbornly refuses to leave her retirement home. Her friend Raquel, who is 67 years her junior, finds a creative way to take her on the journey of a lifetime.