Cinema, women and the Mediterranean come together in this cycle that aims to be a meeting point for filmmaking from both sides of the Mediterranean and a vindication of the visibility of women and their creations. The films that will be screened in our cinema focus on the messages and visions of women directors who show the different realities of neighbouring countries and claim their own spaces, voices and styles to tell their stories, highlighting the diversity of the Mediterranean through their gazes.

With these proposals, we will enter a villa, Villa Toumawhere time has been stopped by the Palestinian director Suha Arraf. On 8 March, with the screening of ConstituentsWe will pay tribute to the first Spanish women who took part in politics in the constituent legislature of 1977 and, thanks to Oliva Acosta's documentary, we will learn how they lived that time.

In the next session, we will feel the oppression and anguish of the young Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid, who shows us through her film how the Arab Spring developed in her country. In the last session, with Rock the CasbahWe will participate in a mourning through the vision of different women from the family of the Moroccan director Laila Marrakchi.

Programming

1 March

Villa Touma

Directed by Suha Arraf. Palestine, 2014, 85 minutes.

8 March

The Constituents

Documentary directed by Oliva Acosta. Spain, 2011, 70 minutes.

Before the screening, at 19.00, there will be the Round Table Women filmmakers: other lookswith the intervention of:

- Oliva Acosta, President of the Andalusian Association of Women in Audiovisual Media. Director of Constituents.

- Mane Cisneros, director of the African Film Festival of Tarifa.

- Nocem Collado, director of Women and water.

- May Silva, Director of the Andalusian Audiovisual Foundation.

- Moderated by Nekane Serrano, from the María Laffite Association.

15 March

Rock the Casbah

Directed by Laila Marrakchi. Morocco, 2013, 100 minutes.

29 March

As I Open My Eyes

Directed by Leyla Bouzid. Tunisia, France, Belgium, 2015, 102 minutes.

All films will be shown from 8.30 p.m. onwards in the original version with Spanish subtitles. Free admission until full capacity is reached.

With the collaboration of