GRRL HAUS CINEMA

06/01/2026

GRRL HAUS CINEMA
Soft Magic : 12 Shorts 🔮
A program rooted in ritual, folklore, the body, and ancestral memory

9 July • 19:00
• Nansenstraße 22, 12047 Berlin

BÁJANJE — Neža Jamnikar

Anything, Always — Isabella Dagnino

Zaxme — Soore Vahe .vahe

cyclical being — Nele Gehricke, Solveig Weimar .ge

Amaltaas - املتاس — Xoori K. Sarhadi  

Unrooting — Esteban Rosales .ros.sa

11:11 — Sophia Gordon

The Virgin, the Bitch, the Witch — Anežka Součková .oo.mer

Lukso ng Dugo — Annika Magbanua

Unfortunately_Wonderful_Difficult — Kumar Muniandy, Mădălina Zaharia

HOWW TO WAYT — Johanna Winters

Nacre — Lydia Jenkins

05/29/2026

GRRL HAUS CINEMA at July 3–5  2O26
Horror, Camp, Dramedies & Oddities

Featuring Shorts: 
Rash - Lyssa Samuel
Repertoire of Death - Guadalupe Arellanes
Scallywags - Nenda Neururer, Olivia D'Lima
The Possession of Lottie Rose - Joshua Ballard, Robert Greene
Do You See Her? - Janet-Rose Nguyen
Play Fight! - Katrina Larner
Afters - Hannah Doyon
Attack of the Coat - Lola-Rose Maxwell
Dead Name - Gina Kamentsky
Meet The Friends - C. Denise
Big Red’s Adventure - Vanessa Castro .anessa_c.astro

05/14/2026

Photos from our screenings on May 6th!
Thank you again to everyone who came out to the events, all of the filmmakers involved, and especially the artists who attended: .sophia.w .rojas

Special thanks to the GRRL HAUS team - Ro (also juror) , q&a host Adela , volunteers Chandler , .0 , as well as staff at the Brattle and projectionist (and juror) Alex

Photos by Izzy 📸

We also wanted to share a quick update about the online portion of the program. We’ve decided to postpone the online screening for now, with plans to create a larger combined online event this summer alongside several upcoming screenings. We apologize to everyone who was waiting for it to launch.

After hosting two international in-person events, we realized we needed a little time to recharge before beginning promotion again.

GRRL HAUS has been entirely volunteer-run for the past 12 years, organized alongside our day jobs and supported through the dedication of our community. It’s truly a labor of love 💕

We’ll also be taking a short break over the next couple of weeks, so if email responses are delayed, we appreciate your patience and will get back to you as soon as we can.

05/08/2026

For 2026, GRRL HAUS presents a year-long program featuring standout shorts from last year’s submissions, with all nominated films included throughout the season.

Across nine award categories, each featuring five nominated films, our guest jurors have selected their favorites from their respective genres. We are honored to have such a diverse and talented group of jurors and are excited to announce their selections!

Best Comedy Short, Selected by Jessica Vangel
Attack of the Coat - Lola-Rose Maxwell
Screening: July 3–5 - Grrl Haus Screening at Lakeside Film Fest 

Best Experimental Short, Selected by  Rhys Iliakis 
Fumble - Mahsa Talebiani
Screening: September 17 - Experimental Shorts at THE BRATTLE

Best New England Local Short, Selected by Alex Kittle
The Shrinking Island - Ally Casa
Screening: September 17 - Experimental Shorts at THE BRATTLE

Best DIY Short, Selected by FL1X DIY Film Collective
Letz Meet @ The Internet Cafe - Cyber Shanahoy
Screening: September 24 - Surreal, DIY & Bizarre Shorts: 15 Shorts at IL KINO

Best Documentary Short, Selected by Colleen Thurston
Saturn Risin9 - Tiare Ribeaux, Jody Stillwater

Best Horror Short, Selected by Eli Lewy
Mondegreen - Linda Mai Green

Best Animated Short, Selected by Kate Jessop
Fried! - Lizzie Watts

Best Drama Short, Selected by Eimi Imanishi
Under the Whether - Putri Sarah Amelia

Best Berlin Local Short, Selected by Rosh Zeeba
My Grandmother Is a Skydiver - Polina Piddubna

05/04/2026

🎥Lineup for our screenings at on Thursday May 7. With screenings at 18:30 and 20:30
Tickets available thru IL KINO site 🎫

05/03/2026

🍿GRRL HAUS this Wednesday at !
Two programs! One at 7pm and another at 9pm.
Filmmaker Q&A between the two screenings

04/30/2026

More interviews are now up on our site!

Play Fight!
Directed by Katrina Larner
Questions from Chandler Pettigrew

Five little girls play games, tell secrets, run, jump, and giggle… and jump and jump and jump and jump and—
Screening May 6 at

Under The Whether
Directed by Putri Sarah Amelia


A middle aged woman who’s going through a perimenopause phase, tries to replace her busy daughter with a cat, but too bad, the cat is in puberty.
Screening May 6 at Brattle

Before I Wake
Directed by Christine Flemming and Tinshine Mont
With questions from Chilli Carney .con.carney

One afternoon, Fang awakens inside a dream where her long-lost sister, Prae, reappears to take her on a bike ride. Now mysteriously pregnant, Prae joins Fang as she suggests visiting the abandoned building they once jokingly called “home,” a refuge from their troubled childhood.
Screening May 6 at Brattle

CAREFUL
Directed by Camille Lagaisse
Questions from Markéta Ní Eithir .ni.eithir

When a secret feminist group assigns Lucie her first mission — to lure an unpunished abuser into a trap — the lines between justice, healing and revenge begin to blur.
Screening May 7 at

04/30/2026

04/27/2026

Excerpts from a Filmmaker Spotlight interview with Sarah Lasley on the film CLIMATE CONTROL, with questions from .con.carney

Read the interview on our site and see the short at on May 6!

In this metafictional comedy about the climate crisis and generative AI, a director making a documentary about fossil fuel extraction is consistently subverted by an AI agent that wants to tell a generic love story.

Made in collaboration with Gen Z film students at Cal Poly Humboldt, the film looks at generational responses to the climate crisis through an absurdist lens, connecting the extraction of natural resources to the extraction of our human data and the extraction of our attention in this post-information era.

12/03/2025

Important GRRL HAUS Update!
We are excited to share that our annual Best of Festival is moving to the spring. From now on, the fest will take place in April/May 🌸

Our FINAL deadline is now January 31, 2026. We will also be offering more awards for filmmakers and more opportunities to screen your films at our events and internationally.
We will be announcing our Jurors soon, along with additional special events happening during the festival.

Thanks to everyone who made our events so special ❤️ We expanded to Seattle with screenings at SIFF, held our first screening in Japan, and had an amazing summer showcase highlighting Boston-area filmmakers (which will now be an annual tradition) at the Brattle. We had DIY screenings with the awesome team at Oblomov, outdoor screenings with Mobile Kino and Lakeside Film Fest, a cozy event with Wander Berkshires, our grant-funded programs Experimental Echoes (NEFA) and Neurocinema (Mass Cultural Council), and online screenings.
A huge thank you to everyone involved in making these events possible!

All films submitted in 2025 and through January 31, 2026 will be considered for our Spring 2026 festival. Notifications will be sent out by March 1.

We still have our shirts for sale, with all proceeds going to our awards for filmmakers being given at the fest. (Link in bio)
We will have some for sale at the Brattle tomorrow for our last screening of the year. Screening starts at 8pm, so come by a little before to grab a shirt!

Photos:
Local Showcase   📸  
GRRL HAUS X KINSE   📸 
On Healing
Neurocinema at Brattle   📸 
Lakeside Film Festival
Grrl Haus BERLIN   
Digital Drift
Experimental Echoes at Brattle