Date:
21 May - 7 July 2024
32nd Edition of the MIFDB - Vol. I Habitable cartographies
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Vol. I – Between May 21 and July 7
The 32nd MIFDB kicks off with a dissident, feminist film proposal and passionate that contributes to the recovery, expansion and reorganization of the stories of cinema made by women
This 32nd edition of the International Women's Film Festival (MIFDB) is will be organized around two times of the year,
Vol. I and Vol. II.
Vol. I with a total of 46 films, which will open on the 21st of
May at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, hosts the following programs:
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Film persistences,
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Sara Gómez Retrospective,
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Special sessions,
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family and educational activities
For the second year, the MIFDB proposes to draw all its programming around a theme that will run through all the proposals and cycles of this 32nd edition. During this edition we will focus on a subject of great urgency: how to build more habitable cartographies through cinema. TO through the eyes of the filmmakers selected in this edition We will inhabit spaces and territories, unique and interconnected microcosms.
The inauguration of the MIFDB, hosted by the Filmoteca de Catalunya, will present the long-awaited restoration of Antuca (Peru, 1992), a classic of the Latin American feminist cinema made by the Peruvian collective WARMI and led by filmmaker María Barea. The director of the film and the researcher who has led his recovery, Isabel Seguí, will accompany the projection of this restoration that has been carried out thanks to the initiative of the Zine Eskola Elías Querejeta
The panorama of cinema directed by women is changing, confirms it to us the growing number of fictions received this year that shine for their quality. This is the case of Crowrã (Brazil, 2023), awarded at festivals such as Cannes or Mar del Plata and now we premiere in Barcelona with the help of their co-director, Renée Nader Messora. Crowrã is an example of deeply political in which the indigenous community of the Krahô represents itself itself showing its infinite capacity for cultural reconfiguration in the context of the presidency of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro.
Another example of the richness of fiction is Blackbird, Blackbird, Blackberry (Georgia, 2023), a unique coming-of-age that explores the experience of desire in old age. This film is directed by promising Georgian filmmaker Elene Naveriani and, after an intense journey of international and national festivals - it was awarded at the Festival International Film Festival of Gijón and was present at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes de Cannes―, will premiere at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in a session accompanied by the writer Anna Freixas.
The desire of contemporary female filmmakers to find new ways of writing history is also evident in documentaries such as The Mother of All Lies (Morocco, 2023), winner of the Un Certain Regard award for best direction at the Cannes festival. In his second feature film, the young Moroccan director Asmae el Moudir displays her imaginative wealth creating a handmade device of models and clay figures in order to overcome the lack of evidence of the popular uprisings in Casablanca in the year 1981.
In the 32nd edition of the MIFDB you will also be able to see the latest work of the celebrated filmmaker and decolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-Ha, whose prestigious journey of more than forty years questioning the representation of alterity culminates in What About China? (2022). The film presents a hugely imaginative cultural critique of China that resists the idea of a single historical narrative, evoking instead the plurality of indigenous perspectives. The academic's work has been recognized and screened on numerous occasions in Barcelona, in the context of the MIFDB, as well as museum spaces such as the MACBA or the CCCB.
Following the programmatic line of recovery, the MIFDB co-organizes with the Filmoteca de Catalunya, a retrospective that this year focuses on one of the first women to direct films in revolutionary Cuba: Sara Gomez. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her death, the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC), Vulnerable Media Lab of Canada and Arsenal-Berlin Film and Video Art Institute have joined forces to restore the work of this pioneering filmmaker that we can see in theaters the MIFDB.
One more edition, the most festive displays will be displayed for different Barcelona squares in the open-air programming Cinema out of place, whose theme is once again focused on sexual dissidence and gender.
In the first session of this cycle you will be able to see the latest productions of acclaimed directors such as Isa Luengo, Marina Freixas and Sofia Esteve (Els buits, awarded at the Malaga Festival), Lucia G. Romero (Cura sana, award-winning at the Berlinale), Alba Cros (Anhel de llum) or Cande Lázaro (Mar(i)cona). The filmmakers will accompany this session that will take place at the Salvador Seguí Square on Sunday, May 26. Three feature films complete this outdoor programming, including the legendary Bound (Lazos fiery) by the Wachowski sisters, a neo-noir film with which they found He began his career in 1996.
Finally, it is worth highlighting Hybridizing the language, one of the sessions specials, which will take place at the Center d'Arts Santa Mònica and will be guided by Heidi Ramírez, representing the collective of creators Afrodiasporic audiovisuals “New Voices New Futures” and the creator Dafne C. In this session we will reflect on the emergence of new languages mestizo that flourish in a generation of young filmmakers.
Press dossier with the programming of Vol-I
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The sessions will be attended by the following directors:
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Freixas,
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And from the participants of the colloquiums:
Trena Collective, María Luisa Ortega, Marta Selva, Denise Duncan and Heidi Ramirez