The Madrid Festival Cine por Mujeres is aimed at all audiences with the goal of becoming an unmissable annual event on the international scene of film festivals. In this edition, fiction reigns supreme with 10 films released for the first time in Madrid and three of them in Spain. Many have been awarded at international festivals such as Cannes. We will also screen the recent winner of the Concha de oro at San Sebastian Festival.
We have made sure that each of these screenings is going to be a unique and unrepeatable experience and for this we have invited many of its directors to Madrid to present their films and to hold a debate with the audience:
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Nathalie Álvarez Mesén - Costa Rica
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Ángeles Cruz - Mexico
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Cecilia Félmeri - Hungary
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Paula Hernández - Argentina
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Clara Roquet - Spain
This competition is a great opportunity to enjoy and catch up for two weekends with the best cinema of the last two years produced in 12 countries on 3 continents: Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Mexico, the Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the USA.

Casimiro Torreiro, Nathalie Poza (photo by Rubén Vega) and Shahrbanoo Sadat
The 2021 Cine por Mujeres Festival Best Film Award, courtesy of Free Your Mind and Subtitula'm, which consists of 3 free weeks of 4K color correction at Free Your Mind's Místika digital cinema room (valued at 30,000 €), for the next feature film by the winning director, and in the creation of a DCP in original version, subtitled in Spanish, by the company Subtitula'm (valued at € 1,000), will be awarded by an exceptional jury composed of :
Nathalie Poza. Spain. Actress winner of two Goya Awards, for leading and for supporting actress, a Feroz Award for Best Leading Actress. A Forqué for Best Female Performance and a recent Platinum Award among others. Spain
Shahrbanoo Sadat. Afghanistan. Film director, winner of the 3rd edition of the Cine por Mujeres Festival for her feature film The Orphanage.
Casimiro Torreiro. Uruguay/Spain. Film critic, historian, essayist and programmer. He teaches at the Carlos III University of Madrid. He is also known for his articles in media such as El País, Fotogramas or Dirigido por.