The Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona turns three decades old, remaining faithful to its founding spirit of giving visibility to cinema and debates in a feminist key, recovering the pioneers of the seventh art and focusing on cinematographies from diverse latitudes and authors.
In addition to going out to the squares during the months of June and July, from today until June 15 it stops at the Filmoteca to give the floor to the filmmakers with a program focused on “multiple geographies”, which transit from Mexico to Vietnam , to the transgender community of San Francisco or to the testimony of the women portrayed by Lala Gomà Presas in the documentary Pioneers. University gifts of the Second Republic
The extensive exhibition opens the gaze to “images to think about places of resistance that allow us to question who we want to fight with and what conflicts are being waged around the world”, they point out from the organization. The event begins with a special session dedicated to the veteran Portuguese filmmaker Manuela Serra, with the screening, for the first time in Barcelona, ??of O movimento das coisas (1985), a jewel of Portuguese cinema and the only film she has made to date. date belonging to the so-called interrupted filmographies.
Recently restored by the Portuguese Cinematheque, Serra will talk about his “forced distance” from the world of cinema. There will also be the presence of the German filmmaker Monika Treut, who will offer a master class at the Goethe Institut and present in the Panorama Genderation section, where she recovers the pioneers of the transgender movement to find out how their activism has evolved 20 years after portraying them in Gendernauts.
Other titles that will be screened are Landscapes of resistance, by Marta Popivoda, which recovers the memory of Sonja Vujanovic, a 97-year-old anti-fascist fighter and one of the leaders of the resistance movement in Auschwitz; Terra Femme, by Courtney Stephens, a film essay on early 20th-century female amateur travel cinematographies; Children of the mist , where the Vietnamese Diem Ha Le walks the fine line between childhood and adulthood through the eyes of a teenager; the French À la vie, starring Chantal Birman, a 70-year-old midwife who has devoted her life to defending women’s rights; Femmes suspendues , about the struggle of three women abandoned by their husbands who face bureaucratic obstacles to obtain a divorce, or Nudo mixteco, which approaches the Oaxacan community through female sexualities.
