Sucker
Juni is a cannibal who lures strangers home with the promise of a good time — until she encounters someone rather more like herself.
MEAT
After a deadly encounter with a predatory stranger, a woman’s account to a hostile men’s support group turns familiar horror logic on its head.
Full Fat
Grace and Bels share a flat, a history and a blurred friendship — until Bels’s new boyfriend makes Grace confront the emotional cost of their unresolved intimacy.
The Intimacy Coordinator
Kate is an intimacy coordinator whose professional calm conceals a compulsion she can no longer bury; as her life unravels, she must confront the truth before it costs her both career and relationships.
Saint Agnes
During a women-themed gallery preview, two best friends are forced to confront consent, trauma and the fractures in their relationship when an artwork exposes what each has tried to leave unspoken.
Women X Film Festival runs 17–20 September 2026 in Darlington. Browse the full 2026 film programme and festival ticket options via Women X.
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