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.
Programme 29 March
Rock the Casbah
Directed by Laila Marrakchi. Morocco, 2013, 100 minutes.
Synopsis
Summer in Tangiers. A family gathers for three days in their home after the death of their father to share their memories and mourn his loss, according to Muslim tradition. They have left the beach behind and swapped their swimming costumes for djellabas, and have come together in a show of mourning. Emotions are heightened even more as this man has left behind an all-female family.
The screening, in original version with Spanish subtitles, will begin at 20.30. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
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