Muwado Community Management
The festival is hosted each year by the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust.
Founded in 2002, International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) is an annual festival held in Harare that is an exhibition platform for films that portray a woman in at least one major role, thus providing role modeling for African women to observe other women in film being active, displaying agency and impacting positively on their own lives, in their communities and their nations.
The International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF) theme for 2025 WOMEN MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE, a profound statement that acknowledge women’s significant contribution to society’s equilibrium through; social progress, economic empowerment, environmental sustainability, cultural enrichment, political representation, and emotional intelligence.
The festival is being held from 22 to 30 August 2025 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
IIFF is calling for long fiction, documentaries and short films in all genres and durations for the main competition as well as non-competition and special competition categories. To be eligible, films must feature a female in a leading role or a male in a leading role as a gender champion for women.
IIFF's film selection takes an intersectional approach to women's social, economic, and personal issues, exploring how gender, race, class, colonization, patriarchy, neo-fascism, globalization, digital technology, and climate change all impact women's lives.
The International Images Film Festival is also concerned with long term peacekeeping challenges. Additionally, the festival explains the female community to the male community. IIFF's many segments, such as New Man and World View, provide story lines with global perspectives that extend beyond the African context. In all of these ways, IIFF promotes tolerance, understanding, and democratic development.
Entry Requirements
– Completed entry form.
Download form here https://www.icapatrust.org/
– A password protected preview of the film (Vimeo link or Dropbox).
-Digital press kit.
The press kit should include three high resolution colour stills, full cast/crew list, directors statement, film synopsis. Posters are welcome but cannot be substituted for stills.
Please email all materials to [email protected] or upload them to Film-freeway. Be sure to activate your press kit on Film-freeway.
-Films must not be available on the internet e.g YouTube.
-Films should not have been premiered or screened in Zimbabwe 6 months prior to the festival.
-Films must have been produced between January 2022 and August 2025.
-All non-English language films must have legible English subtitles.
– You may submit through Film-freeway or submit a completed submission form to [email protected].
– Non-refundable entry fee to be paid via paypal ([email protected]) with submission :
Non-African Films US$ 20, African Films US$10, Zimbabwean Films are free.
