2025 marks 20 years since the inaugural Birds’ Eye View Film Festival – a platform for women filmmakers that was launched at BFI Southbank. Now, as Reclaim The Frame, the charity, is returning to celebrate this milestone together with talent from across the UK, in collaboration with British Council. Join us this International Women’s Day for a special curated selection of shorts - encompassing drama, documentary, animation, and experimental - followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.

From one's intimate relationships - with their mothers, and their own bodies - to their communities or society at large - these shorts explore nuanced and multifaceted experiences of womanhood, gender, identity and expression.

Introduced by Reclaim The Frame director Melanie Iredale, Birds’ Eye View co-founder Pinny Grylls, and British Council’s Film Relationship Manager Fiona Fletcher. Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, together with Head of Audience Engagement Aashna Thakkar.

This event marks the launch of a programme which will go on to be presented globally, through British Council’s International Touring Programme.