2019 Screenings

(All films will be screened in their original version with Spanish subtitles)

Special Sessions

Palacio de la Prensa (Plaza de Callao nº4)
Admission: invitation only

The awards for an Outstanding Career in the Film Industry to the editor Teresa Font will be presented at the opening ceremony. The opening film (in competition) will be screened:
Becoming Astrid
Pernille Fischer Christensen, Denmark
Drama, 2018, 123’

Closing ceremony

The Award for Best Film, granted by an international jury, and the IBERIA Audience Award will be presented before the closing film:
#Female pleasure
Barbara Miller, Switzerland
Documentary, 2018, 97’

Competitive Section

Venue: Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes (Calle del Marqués de Casa Riera nº 4)
Entrance: 3€.
10 recent and relevant films, produced in the last two years, 2017 and 1018, not yet released in Spain or Madrid will be screened. Competitive section’s films and Q&A will be host by journalist Beatriz Montañez.

Fig Tree

Alamork Davidian, Ethiopia-Israel
Fiction, 2018, 93’

Microhabitat

Jeon Go-Woon, Korea
Fiction, 2018,106’

The Kindergarten Teacher

Sara Colangelo, USA
Fiction, 2018, 96’

The Good Girls

Alejandra Márquez Abella, Mexico
Fiction, 2018, 94’

Miami

Zaida Bergroth, Finland
Fiction, 2017, 119’

Figlia mia

Laura Bispuri, Italia
Fiction, 2018, 96’

The Miner

Hanna Slak, Slovenia
Fiction, 2017, 113’

With the WInd (Le vent tourne)

Bettina Oberli, Switzerland
Fiction, 2018, 86’

3 Days in Quiberon (3 Jours à Quibéron)

Emily Atef, Germany
Fiction, 2018, 115’

Focus Switzerland Section

Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas (Calle de Zurbano nº 3).
Entrance: free access, until seating is completed.
Switzerland, guest country: 6 recent and relevant films by Swiss directors and producers will be screened.

Divine Order

Petra Volpe, Switzerland
Fiction, 2017, 96 ‘

Vakuum

Christine Repond, Switzerland
Fiction, 2017, 80’

Sketches of Lou

Lisa Blatter, Switzerland
Fiction, 2016, 82’

Diary of My Mind (Journal de ma tête)

Ursula Meier, Switzerland
Fiction, 2017, 70’

Blue My Mind

Lisa Brühlmann, Switzerland
Fiction, 2017, 97’

Chris the Swiss

Anja Kofmel, Switzerland
Animadoc, 2018, 90’

Spanish Female Authors Panorama

Berlanga Movie Theatre. SGAE Foundation.
Calle de Andrés Mellado 53
Entrance: 3€

Presences and Absences Section

Casa América. Sala Iberia
Plaza de Cibeles s/n
Entrance: free access until seating is completed. Admission tickets will be distributed one hour before the screening.

La camarista (The chambermaid)

Lila Avilés, Mexico
Fiction, 2018, 102’

Gilda, no me arrepiento de este amor (Gilda, I do not regret this love )

Lorena Muñoz, Argentina
Fiction, 2016, 118’

Batallas íntimas

Lucía Gajá, Mexico
Documentary, 2016, 87’

Contemporary Arab Women Directors

Casa Árabe
Calle de Alcalá 62
Entrance: 4 € online, 5€ at the box office

Mary Shelley

 Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia
Romantic drama, 2017, 120’

A Present from the Past

 Kawthar Younis, Egypt
 Documentary, 2015, 80’

Wajib

Annemarie Jacir, Palestine
 Fiction, 2017, 96’

Sofia

Meryem Benm’Barek, Morocco
Fiction, 2018, 85’

You Come from Far Away

Amal Ramsis, Egypt
Documentary, 2018, 85’

Contemporary French Cinema

Institut Français de Madrid
Calle del Marqués de la Ensenada 12
Entrance: 4€ on line y 5€ at the box office

La belle et la belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Sophie Fillières, France
Fiction, 2018, 95’

Gueule d’ange (Angel face)

Vanessa Filho, France
Fiction, 2018, 120’

Tribute to Marceline Loridan Ivens

Filmoteca Española Cine Doré. Sala 1
Calle de Santa Isabel 3
Ticket price: 3€

Tribute to the French film maker, writer and actress Marceline Loridan Ivens, member of the French resistance, deported and survivor of Auschwitz and other concentration camps; co-director of 6 documentary films together with Joris Ivens.

Chronique d’un été (Chronicle of a summer)

Edgar Morin y Jean Rouch, France
Documentary, 1961, 85’

La petite prairie aux bouleaux

Marceline Loridan Ivens, France
Fiction, 2003, 91’

Virtual Reality Works

Fundación Telefónica. Espacio XR
Calle de Fuencarral nº 3.
Free admission until the seats are filled with a previous inscription in:
https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/xr
A selection of encompasing pieces (360º and VR), both fiction and documentaries, directed by women, and a panel of specialists from this sector of the new technologies will be proposed which will be aired in streaming.