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Six feature films at Focus China and three Mexican films


Since its inception, the Women’s Film Festival has dedicated the Focus Section to a guest country with the aim of giving a vision of the recent film production made by women from a specific country. In the 2018 and 2019 editions, the invited countries were Sweden and Switzerland, both considered pioneers and models in their equality policies within the audiovisual sector. In 2020, the Focus was dedicated to Polish female directors, who have a long career path and worldwide recognition.
In 2021, the country invited to the 4th edition of the festival is China, with a thriving and increasingly international film industry, in which women directors have entered with force. In the FOCUS CHINA SECTION 6 recent feature films will be screened in the movie theatres of the Madrid Film Academy and Cineteca.
This programming is organized in collaboration with the China Women’s Film Festival, a festival born in 2013 that promotes equal opportunities, fosters professional development and serves as a resource and information network for women in the Asian country.

The Festival Cine por Mujeres also wants to welcome the Fundación Casa de México en España -Casa de México Foundation in Spain-, which joins the festival for the first time with special programming dedicated to 3 Mexican directors.
Casa de México is a foundation that spreads and promotes the culture of Mexico in Spain and that has an extensive program that includes the best titles in Mexican cinema. It also organizes cycles, thematic sessions, cinema forums, courses and workshops so that you can enjoy all the richness and diversity of Mexican cinema in Madrid. Most of them are free activities that are shown in the “Lic. Enrique Ramírez Miguel – Cinépolis” Cinema-Auditorium, with capacity for 52 seated people and that has the latest generation digital projection technology.

 

FOCUS CHINA PROGRAMMING: 

Sala Plató de Cineteca Madrid
Plaza de Legazpi, nº 8
Ticket: 3,50€
www.cinetecamadrid.com

Wednesday October 27th, 8.00 pm
Chun Tian De Ma Que (Spring Sparrow)
Li Jingxiang.China
Fiction, 2019. 92'

Thrusday October 28th, 8:00 pm
Jia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White)
Vivian Qu. China
Fiction, 2017. 107'

Friday October 29th, 8:00 pm
A Dog Barking at the Moon
Lisa Zi Xiang. China
Fiction, 2019, 107'

Saturday October 30th, 8:00 pm
Ban Ge Xi Ju (Almost a Comedy)
Liu Lu y Shen Zhou. China
Fiction, 2019, 111’



Sala de Cine de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas
Calle de Zurbano nº 3
Ticket: 3,15 €
www.academiadecine.com

Thrusday November 4th, 7:00 pm
Ban Ge Xi Ju (Almost a Comedy)
Liu Lu y Shen Zhou. China
Fiction, 2019, 111’

Friday November 5th, 5:00 pm
My Prince Edward
Norris Wong. China
Fiction, 2019, 92’

Friday November 5th, 7:30 pm
Mo Er Dao Ga (Anima)
Cao Jinling. China
Fiction, 2020, 120'

The three Mexican films, produced in recent years, that we will be able to see at the festival are: Todo lo invisible, by Mariana Chenillo, which tells the story of Jonás, who is suddenly blinded by an accident and who, despite his resistance to accept this new condition and showing himself vulnerable to his daughters and wife, will be led by circumstances to discover other ways, hitherto unsuspected, in order to move forward; Antes del olvido, by Iria Gómez Concheiro, is about a group of tenants who, faced with the threat of eviction from their neighborhood, unite in solidarity to get out of their ego-centrism and fight for a common cause; and Fractal, by Mariana González, which tells the story of three friends in their twenties looking for a friend who disappears at an after party and whose search will take them to different parts of the city, where they will face the realities and dangers of contemporary Mexico.
 

MEXICAN DIRECTORS PROGRAMMING:
Casa de México en España

Calle Alberto Aguilera nº 20
Free entry until capacity is completed
www.casademexico.es

Thrusday November 4th, 7:00 pm
Todo lo invisible (All the invisible)
Mariana Chenillo, México
Fiction, 2020, 110’
Selected at the Morelia Festival.

Friday November 5h, 7:00 pm
Antes del olvido (Before oblivion)
Iria Gómez Concheiro, México
Fiction, 2018, 101'
Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at
the Guanajuato Festival.
Selected at the Morelia Festival.

Saturday November 6, 7:00 pm
Fractal
Mariana González, México
Fiction, 2019, 77'Selected in the festivals of Malaga,
Guanajuato and Calgary.

 

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