synopsis

A woman records a final message in the dead of night. What begins as confession slowly unravels into something far darker — a truth built from discipline, obedience, and expectation.

Alone in a single room, she peels back the story she has spent a lifetime holding together. The more she reveals, the more it becomes clear that what is breaking inside her was never hers to begin with.

fe-male is an intimate psychological horror about control, identity, and the cost of becoming who the world demands you to be.

cast & crew

Ella Moss
Amy

Ella Moss is a London-based actor and recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

fe-male marks her first leading screen performance.

  • Doug James Berwick

    Writer / Director

  • Esme Michaela

    Producer

  • Emmy Ren

    Director of Photography

  • Emmy Ren

    Colourist

  • Finley Norris

    Gaffer

  • Vittoria Maiolo

    Focus Puller

  • Imogen Marinko

    Production Designer

  • Edie Alice Jones

    Costume Designer

  • Lydia Mitchell

    Conceptual Costume Artist

  • Mia Parsons

    SFX & Make-Up

  • Deanna Arthur

    1st Assistant Director

  • Patrick Revell

    Sound Engineer & Recordist

  • Runner

    Ilona Dragomir

  • Flo Delvo

    Sound Design

  • Doug James Berwick

    Composer

production info

Status: In pre-production

Estimated Release Date: Summer 2026

Made in Association with Evulve Productions

director’s vision

The film is constructed around restriction. A fixed space, a limited frame, and a camera that initially refuses to intervene. Proximity replaces movement; stillness becomes pressure.

The camera begins static — uncomfortably close — turning the viewer into both witness and accomplice. What appears observational slowly becomes invasive. Each frame holds Amy in place, transforming intimacy into a form of surveillance.

As her internal fracture surfaces, the image language shifts. Light turns surgical, colour seeps into the frame like contamination, and the camera — once neutral — begins to intrude, no longer documenting but exerting intent.

Sound becomes the primary carrier of interior life: breath, memory, and the distant wash of a half-remembered aria. Together they construct a space that is felt as much in the body as in the mind.

fe-male culminates where function overtakes personhood — and the body quietly resists.