The photojournalist Eva Máñez portrays in the exhibition “The streets will always be ours” the power, heterogeneity and reach of the feminist movement, through the images that she has captured in demonstrations and protests in recent years, of cries asking for changes that guarantee equality.
The exhibition, which opens this Monday and will remain on display until June 26 at the Valencia Provincial Council headquarters, is one of the complementary activities of the Humans Fest, the Valencia International Film and Human Rights Festival, included in the network International Human Rights Film Network and organized by Fundación por la Justicia since 2009.
“The selection of images and the title of the exhibition are based on the songs and proclamations that are usually heard in these demonstrations,” Máñez explained during the presentation of the exhibition, reports the festival organization.
“They are cries that ask for changes towards equality, that claim that our bodies belong to us and to no one else and that warn that we will not be relegated to the home again or to settle for more violence or aggression,” the photojournalist asserts.
Máñez explained that with this exhibition she has tried to capture the power, heterogeneity and scope of feminism, taking the women’s strike of 2018 as a turning point, “which gave us the opportunity to be aware of the strength we have in the streets “.
The exhibition also portrays the mobilizations for 8M, 25N or against injustices such as the case of “La Manada”, which “collect the diversity of women who make up this movement: young and old, already organized or who are mobilizing for the first time, heterosexuals and LGTBIQ, migrants and from different social classes”.
Máñez has been accompanied during the presentation of the exhibition by Mentxu Balaguer, deputy for International Cooperation; Majo Siscar, director of the Humans Fest; José MarÃa Tomás y TÃo, president of the Foundation for Justice; and Rosa Solbes, representative of Les Beatrius, a network of professional women for feminist journalism.
The festival faces its “big week” until Saturday June 10, when the award-winning works of this edition will be announced.
From Monday to Friday, the bulk of feature films and documentaries in the Official Section are screened at Cines Babel and the SGAE Cultural Center Room hosts the short films that are also in competition.
For its part, the Rector Peset Residence Hall is the setting for the Participatory Short Film Festival, where Monday and Wednesday afternoons the works carried out by different social groups are screened in audiovisual workshops and colloquiums are held to reflect on the power of cinema for social transformation.
Likewise, at La Filmoteca the “author’s cycle” will continue this year, which the director Isabel Coixet has premiered as an honorary Pau i JustÃcia awardee. Specifically, next Friday it will be the turn of his documentary El sostre groc, which narrates the sexual abuse committed at the Lleida Theater School and will be accompanied by a subsequent round table on why there has not been a
The final stretch of the XIV Humans Fest will feature a free session of “cinema a fresca” in the Plaza de la Ermita in the Orriols neighborhood (Friday 9 at 9:00 p.m.) and a second installment of the so-called Vermouths Humans, meetings with activists in the MuVIM cafeteria to talk in a relaxed atmosphere about human rights (Saturday 10 at 12 noon).
