Medea starts with a fact:
Some of the most vital films today are made outside the system. Made by women.
They write, shoot, edit.
No budget. No network. But with precision. With urgency.
This isn’t a fallback. It’s a form. Free, demanding, essential. Still: no access, no visibility, no space.
Medea Session was created to change that. A professional space for self-produced films by women.
Private screenings. Targeted visibility. Concrete support. To get these films seen and taken seriously. Not a counter-model. A structure that was missing.
#MedeaSession #IndependentCinema #WomenFilmmakers #SelfProducedFilm #IndustryAccess #EssentialVoices
À l’heure où une partie essentielle du cinéma documentaire se fabrique hors des circuits traditionnels, il devient nécessaire de créer de nouveaux espaces de circulation et de rencontre.
C’est autour de cette conviction qu’est née @medeasession
Medea Session est un programme de curation dédié aux courts métrages documentaires réalisés par des femmes du monde entier, fondé par Hannah Rosselin, réalisatrice marquée par l’autoproduction de ses premiers films.
Avec @jessy_melchou@ioladgsn@camillespiller et @anh.ly elles portent un projet commun : accompagner des œuvres singulières et créer de nouveaux espaces de visibilité et de rencontre.
Les courts métrages des lauréates @vanesabadescu@elfiemahe@diaryofanobserver@eleonoremichelotbrun et @anitavolker_hl seront présentés lors d’une projection privée à @lafemis.paris à destination des professionnel·les du cinéma. Rosalie Varda accompagnera cette première édition en tant que marraine, elle qui rappelle que « grandir avec Agnès Varda, c’est comprendre très tôt que faire des films, c’est aussi inventer les conditions de leur existence ».
Professionnel·les du cinéma, journalistes et médias : écrivez-nous en DM pour recevoir votre invitation 11/06.
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After months of work, we’re proud to introduce the laureates of the very first MEDEA SESSION.
5 films, 5 filmmakers, 5 singular voices.
These films will be presented during a private screening soon.
More to come✨
@louise_ernandez is pre-selected for her self-produced film LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA.
Louise Ernandez is a documentary filmmaker, a graduate of ENSAD and Le Fresnoy. Working through long-term immersion, her films explore the friction between technology, bodies and constrained territories.
LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA follows Yasse, a Cuban YouTuber navigating isolation and hyper-connectivity on an island both modern and in ruins, where digital noise and birdsong intertwine in a suspended, enclosed world.
@sfromentarius is pre-selected for her self-produced film JUST A REFLEX.
Sarah Fromentarius is a writer and director working across documentary and fiction. Her films use everyday gestures, humour and subtle elements of the fantastic to explore resilience and ways of living together, often in dialogue with the non-human living world.
JUST A REFLEX follows Nawel, her neighbour, who at 45 decides to learn how to ride a bicycle, a shared journey where learning, movement and sound reveal what this gesture means beyond the act itself.
Lale Keyhani is pre-selected for her self-produced film SEARCH FOR KHUBADY
Lale Keyhani is a video artist and filmmaker based in Basel. Drawing on poetry, archives, and folklore, she explores how histories persist and how quiet forms of resistance appear in everyday life shaped by borders and separation.
SEARCH FOR KHUBADY, her first documentary, screened at festivals in New York, Amsterdam, and Berlin and won an award in Tbilisi. Set along the border with South Ossetia, the film examines the fragility of oral traditions and how political boundaries reshape cultural expression.
@martina.troxler is pre-selected for her self-produced film THE VOICE OF A BOSNIAN WOMAN.
Martina Troxler is a Swiss filmmaker based in Berlin. Her short documentaries, including the award-winning Near Our Border, focus on human stories shaped by borders and displacement. She is also the co-founder of Soohm Studio, a creative collective working on visual and conceptual development.
THE VOICE OF A BOSNIAN WOMAN is set in Velika Kladuša, a small town just one kilometre from the EU border. As humanitarian aid to migrants is increasingly obstructed across Europe, the film follows a young Bosnian woman who continues to support migrants, despite a climate that discourages solidarity
@diaryofanobserver is pre-selected for her self-produced film Mother Eve.
Lama Jamjoom is a Saudi documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Jeddah. Her films tell stories rooted in women’s everyday lives in Saudi Arabia and have been awarded internationally. She is currently developing her first feature-length documentary.
MOTHER EVE follows Yasmine, 22, who after her mother’s sudden death must raise her three younger siblings, rebuilding a sense of home and redefining what motherhood means.
@zetagk is pre-selected for her self-produced film YOU CAN CALL ME LOU.
Zeta is an artist and filmmaker based in London, originally from Greece. Working within the independent film scene, her work has screened at the British Film Institute and at international festivals.
YOU CAN CALL ME LOU tells the story of Louise, a former dancer who transitioned in the 1980s, revisiting the London club scene of the 80s and 90s through rare archives and Super 8, and tracing how dance shaped her path toward self-acceptance
