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Girls on the Run Film Festival
presented by the Cordillera International Film Festival
Come celebrate storytelling that moves you—on screen and beyond—while supporting the next generation of strong, confident girls. 🎬✨
The Cordillera International Film Festival—named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World—is proud to present a joyful short film program packed with inspiration, laughter, and unapologetic girl power.
This curated series of funny, fearless, and fabulous short films celebrates confidence, creativity, and community, with stories that uplift, empower, and remind us just how powerful young voices can be.
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Proceeds from the event benefit Girls on the Run Sierras, an incredible organization that inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident through programs that creatively integrate physical activity, teamwork, and self-expression.​
01
Éiru
Oscar Shortlisted!
Éiru is the smallest child of an Iron-Age clan. All she wants is to be a mighty warrior who is taken seriously by her kinfolk. But when the village’s well mysteriously dries up, only she is small enough to descend into the belly of the earth to investigate and bring the water of life back to her people. Éiru is the story of a child in search of a challenge, and a goddess in search of a champion.
02
Miriam
In 1985 Los Angeles, 12-year-old Miriam is chosen to be the first bat mitzvah in her Orthodox community—a controversial decision that divides the congregation. Stifled by traditional expectations of womanhood, Miriam secretly skips her rabbi's lessons to pursue skateboarding under the wing of a homeless teen. But when her double life is exposed, Miriam must choose between sparking change in her community or chasing her own dreams—realizing that true rebellion is not rejecting tradition, but reshaping it on her own terms.
03
The Water Walker
The Water Walker is a short documentary, tracing the roots, passion and perseverance of young Autumn. We follow her story as she prepares to speak at the United Nations. Autumn is an influential figure in the Indigenous and global youth-led environmental movement. In 2019, 14-year-old Autumn was named the chief water commissioner by the Anishinabek Nation, a position previously held by her late Great Aunt Josephine Mandamin, an elder and founding member of the water protectors movement.
04
Ovary-Acting
A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.
05
Pow
A Native American kid scrambles to charge his dying video game console at a bustling intertribal powwow.
06
Jane Austen's Period Drama
OSCAR NOMINATED
England, 1813. In the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, the dashing Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his very expensive education has most certainly missed a spot.
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