The Athena Film Festival is a celebration of women and leadership; now in our tenth anniversary year, our films feature courageous and audacious women who are making a difference in communities across the globe. The festival has a great lineup of feature films, documentaries, shorts, workshops, panels, master classes, and more!

The festival is held at Barnard College in New York City from February 27 - March 1, 2020.

Please choose among the following films. The complete lineup, which includes a number of free screenings and masterclasses, can be found at athenafilmfestival.com/festival-info/schedule/

A Sheriff’s deputy takes on her Louisiana town’s old-money establishment when the woman she loves – an attorney fighting a corporate land grab that will displace the poor – is found murdered.

Q&A with director Daniel Lafrentz and actress Aasha Davis to follow screening.

Written and directed by Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is an intimate portrayal of two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) and her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder) embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery and compassion.

Conversation with director Eliza Hittman to follow screening.

Giving queer fandom a voice in the conversation about LGBTQ+ representation, from Showtime’s The L Word to FX’s POSE, Queering the Script examines the rising power of the fans and audience shaping representation on TV, the relationship between fandom and activism, and what lies ahead for visibility and inclusiveness.

Q&A with editor Shelley Therrien to follow screening.

In this moving exploration of the rise of state laws that protect “fetal rights” at the expense of the rights of pregnant women, Personhood tells the story of Tamara Loertscher, a rural Wisconsin mother who was jailed after telling her doctor about her occasional drug use before she knew she was pregnant and her fight to overturn Wisconsin’s ‘Unborn Child Protection Act.’

Q&A with director Jo Ardinger and producer Rosalie Miller to follow screening.

In 1977, with just four months left, NASA struggles to recruit scientists, engineers and astronauts for their new Space Shuttle Program. That is when Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, challenges them by asking the question: Where are my people?. She embarks on a national blitz, recruiting 8,000 of the nation’s best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian, and Latino men and women to fly in space.

Woman In Space panel to follow the screening.