Projection of Postscript by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko (Iran, Canada, 2024) and Descartes by Alejandro Alvarado and Concha Barquero (Spain, 2021). Proposed by Paola Buontempo, followed by a discussion. The history of cinema is also the history of the destruction of moving images. While cinema lives in an eternal present, its images…(Read More)

Screening of Fauna by Nicolás Pereda (Mexico-Canada, 2020) proposed by Marina Massidda, followed by a discussion. Fauna is a metafictional story set in a remote village in northern Mexico, where a family reunion is punctuated by the parallel reality created by two siblings. Luisa and Gabino pass the time inventing characters based on…(Read More)

Projection of selected fragments of Napoleon by Abel Gance (France, 1927), followed by a discussion with Imanol Abad Martínez. The objective of this session is the subaltern appropriation of the imperialist narrative. To that end we propose an approach to the film Napoleon by Abel Gance, by means of which we will consider its…(Read More)

Screening of How to Disappear (Total Refusal, 2020, 21’), Palestinian Women (Jocelyn Saab, 1973, 11’) and Mujeres del Planeta (Women of the Planet) (María Barea, 1981, 30’), followed by a discussion. Session proposed by Lorena García. Disobey disobey disobey Disobedience arises as an act of resistance facing oppressive power structures in How to…(Read More)

Screening of Simone Barbès, ou Le vertu (Marie-Claude Treihlou, 1980, 77’), preceded by Nothing Is Something (Amina Gingold, 2023, 2’) and L’arrotino (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 2001, 7’), followed by a discussion. Session proposed by Bruno Delgado Ramo. In a conversation with Roberto Martínez Benages on the three films…(Read More)

Screening of Space is The Place (John Coney, 1974, 80 min) followed by a discussion. Session proposed by Inés García. Space is the place is that place from which the impossible can be imagined. An Afrofuturist mystical creation of resistance to white hegemony and oppression. In a world ruled by a reading of…(Read More)

Screeing of Leila and the Wolves (1984) by Heiny Srour, proposed by Akane Saraiva and Julia Martos. Leila and the Wolves is an epic story that retells an old fable in feminist terms: the fable of the wolves that devoured untended herds of livestock in Lebanon and Palestine, and of the women who immediately rushed…(Read More)

Screening of Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986),* proposed by Cecilia Hernández, followed by a discussion. “To make a film, you have to get up”, Chantal Akerman declares in La Paresse, one of the works that make up this film. All of these directors “got up”, although each of them first placed a different foot…(Read More)