International women's film festival
By Charlotte Stace
Barcelona is proud to welcome the latest instalment of the International Women’s Film Festival. Since 1993, this film festival has promoted female directors from around the world, thus demonstrating the importance of the contribution of women to the development of audiovisual creation.
After almost three decades of history, this festival has become a stable cultural space and an alternative exhibition platform increasingly committed to the debate on creative processes. It is a dissident and feminist film event that contributes to the recovery, expansion and reorganisation of the multiple histories of cinema made by women.
This year, the festival’s focus is ‘Flight’. To that end, the inauguration on May 21st screens the film Antuca by María Barea, which looks at the struggles of a young Andean domestic worker who comes back to her community after a decade working away. Other highlights include I Often Think of Hawaii (1978), What About China? (2022) and The Mother of All Lives (2023).