In March, the Three Cultures Foundation offers a cycle of films, documentaries and short films directed by women from different Mediterranean countries. A meeting place for Mediterranean cinematography and a vindication of the visibility of women filmmakers and their creations. Women directors who reclaim their own spaces, voices and styles to tell their stories, highlighting diversity through their gazes.
Monday, 18 March, 20.30 h.
BETWEEN THE FIGS (Taht alshajra) Erige Sehiri. Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Cata, 2022, 92 min.
In the northwest of Tunisia, Sana, Fidé, Melek and Abdou work picking figs. Under the testimony of the trees, they develop new feelings, argue, meet and shun, flirt and try to understand each other. Throughout the day, the orchard becomes a theatre of emotions, where the dreams and hopes of each of them are played out.
Awards
2022: Festival de Cannes: Director's Fortnight Section
"A luminous and jovial film, it lacks a plot in the traditional sense, but it captivates us, and very much so, for the natural tone that surrounds it, for the closeness of the characters and the honesty with which it contemplates them (...)
Jordi Batlle Caminal. La Vanguardia newspaper.
Free admission with prior registration at THIS LINK.
This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa (Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification).
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