The 4th Madrid Women's Film Festival kicks off again with 20 venues and many new features. Chinese Women Directors will be the protagonists of the Focus section

Friday, 10 September 2021

The 4th Edition of the Madrid International Festival Cine por mujeres, will have again a mixed format, in-person and online. It will bring the public a carefully chosen selection of recent national and international films directed by women with the aim of contributing to their visibility. The event will take place between October 27th and November 7th, 2021, at 20 venues in Madrid and will comply with the most demanding health and security protocols.
The 4th edition of Cine por Mujeres builds on the success achieved in previous editions, with 23,656 in-person and online spectators in 2020. Over the last 3 years the festival has grown in quality, number of films, venues and has become a must-see event within the national scene of festivals, consolidating its position at a very difficult time for the sector. This festival is possible thanks to the numerous public and private collaborating entities that, once again, renew their commitment to cinema and equality:

In addition to the private company:

Sidras Maeloc

We wish to express our gratitude to them and to the rest of in-person venues and collaborating entities.
THANKS SO MUCH!

The 4th edition has important new features:
In addition to the previous venues there will be three new ones: Casa de México en España, Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo and the Salón de Actos of the Escuela de Postgrado from the Universidad Camilo José Cela:

In-person venues: 20

Screening venues

Training venues:

The FOCUS Section of this edition is dedicated to Chinese cinematography with a selection of 6 films screened in the movie theatre of the Academia de Cineand in Cineteca Madrid. This is the result of the collaboration of the Festival with the China Women Film Festival, which started in 2013, and is dedicated to providing female filmmakers and young screenwriters with a platform to encourage the creation of original content and the development of film projects. The CWFF promotes equal opportunities, fosters professional development, and serves as a resource and information network for Chinese women.

The Fundación Consejo España-EEUU cooperates with the Festival for the first time facilitating the screeening, in the National Competition Section, of the film “Once Upon a Place”, from director Cèlia Novis, on migrations of Spaniards to the USA.

The Festival continues to bet on strengthening its online presence through its collaboration with the prestigious online independent cinema platform FILMIN, where some of the main sections of its programming will be broadcast, as well as with local television 8madrid TV, which will program 7 successful films directed by women during the Festival.

With the aim of giving visibility to the role played by women in the entire cinematographic value production chain (creation and training -> production and screening -> promotion and marketing-> distribution and sales -> consumption and accessibility), the festival organizes conferences, round tables, meetings and talks with the participation of directors, screenwriters, producers, actresses, cinematographers, distributors, animation directors, editors, sound engineers, visual effects specialists, art directors, localizers, scriptwriters, composers … Woman creators all of them. The transmission of knowledge is one of our fundamental values, which is why we consider that an education based on equality and diversity should mitigate inequality in the film industry.

The Festival de Cine por mujeres is possible thanks to the invaluable collaboration of entities, institutions, professionals and companies.
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