2023. The 6th Edition of the Films by Women Festival Madrid will have 16 upscale professional and training activities
With the participation of great personalities in the industry such as Tatiana Huezo, Maxa Zoller, Enrico Vanucci, Alexia Muiños and many other national and international female directors and expertss
To improve our reality in terms of parity and equity, it is essential to make women's work visible through women references that can be inspirational for the youngest. Therefore, one of our objectives is to highlight the talent of women throughout the industry’s Cultural Value Chain: creation and training → production and screening → distribution and sales → marketing and exhibition → consumption and accessibility.
To achieve this goal, this 6th edition will host a wide range of professional and training activities with great experts and guest directors. Under the slogan #visibilityforequality, –from October 24th to November 5th– 7 roundtables, 4 conversations with professionals from the industry, a conference and 4 discussions will take place. In these activities the public will be able to learn live and first-hand from the experience of these great female professionals.
The 2023 venues that will host the activities are: Biblioteca Nacional de España, Casa de América; Cine Doré - Filmoteca Española; Sala Secuencia - DAMA Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales; Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo; Espacio Fundación Telefónica; Fundación Casa de México en España; Universidad Camilo José Cela; Goethe-Institut Madrid; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza; Sala Berlanga de la Fundación SGAE and Sala Equis.
The 6th edition of the Madrid Film by Women Festival will welcome more than 30 professionals from the film industry and will host 16 professional and training activities. In addition, some directors will introduce their films and, after the screenings, debates will take place, enriching the event and creating spaces for reflection, dialogue and shared experience; equity and visibility being always the main objectives.
PROFESSIONAL AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES
WEEK I: October 24th to October 29th
Arantxa Echevarría
Sala Secuencia - DAMA. Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales.
Gran Vía de San Francisco, 8
Free entrance, until capacity is completed.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 - 6:00 pm – The Making of Chinas.
After the screening of the film “Chinas” there will be a discussion between the director and screenwriter Arantxa Echevarría and Carlota Álvarez Basso, Co-director of the festival.
Presentation by Carlota Álvarez Basso, Co-director of the festival, and Arantxa Echevarría.
Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Calle de Fuencarral nº3
Free entrance with prior registration on the Espacio Fundación Telefónica website.
https://espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com/
Thursday, October 26th - 5:30 pm - “Case study: the travels of the animation director Isabel Herguera”
Conversation between Isabel Herguera and Chelo Loureiro, respectively director and producer of the animated film, El sueño de la Sultana (The Sultana’s Dream) (2023).
Presentation by the Co-director of the festival, Carlota Álvarez Basso.
Thursday, October 26th - 7:30 pm - “We take stock: results of gender incentives in the audiovisual industry in Spain and Europe.”
Roundtable with the participation of the German expert Maxa Zoller, Artistic Director of the IFFF Dortmund+Köln; Beatriz Navas, former General Director of the ICAA; Enrico Vanucci, Deputy Executive Director and responsible for equality and inclusion strategies at Eurimages, and Alexia Muiños, President of the European Women's Audiovisual Network (EWA).
Facilitator: Cristina Andreu, President of CIMA.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Cine Doré - Filmoteca Española
Calle Santa Isabel nº 3
Admission: €3 (students 2€)
www.culturaydeporte.gob.es/cultura/areas/cine/mc/fe/portada.htm
Esperanza García Claver
Friday, October 27th, 2023 - 17:30 pm - “A Hollywood Story: American female directors in Silent Cinema and Spanish directors in the North American industry (1920-1960)”
Conference by Esperanza García Claver, exhibition curator and contemporary culture manager.
Presentation by the Co-director of the festival Carlota Álvarez Basso and a representative of the Fundación Consejo España-EEUU.
After the conference, “The Woman Condemned” will be screened inaugurating the Female Pioneers Series: Monographic on Dorothy Davenport.
Series organized in collaboration with the Fundación Consejo España-EEUU
Goethe Institut-Madrid
Calle de Zurbarán nº 21
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/es/es/index.html
Thursday, October 26th, 5:30 p.m. - “The importance of certain stories being told by women.”
Roundtable with the participation of Hanna Doose, German director of the film Wann kommst du meine Wunden küssen (Kiss my wounds), Emina Smajić, producer of the film Elaha and the spanish director Anna R. Costa.
Facilitated by Ana Pérez, programe responsible of the Goethe-Institut Madrid.
Presentation by the Co-directors of the festival Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Salón de actos del Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado nº 8
Free entrance with prior registration on the museum website
Friday, October 27th, 2023 - 6:30 pm - “Three Women and the War”
After the screening of the film Drei Frauen - ein Krieg (Trained to See: three women and the war) there will be a discussion between the Swiss director Luzia Schmid and Diego Mas Trelles, Co-director of the festival.
Presentation by Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Carlota Álvarez Basso, Co-director of the festival and film director Luzia Schmid.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Spain.
Sala Equis
Calle Duque de Alba nº 4
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
Friday, October 27th, 2023 - 8:30 pm – “Barbie (and Ken): Cinema, Feminism and Psychoanalysis”
Roundtable: “Barbie (and Ken): Cinema, Feminism and psychoanalysis” with the participation of Eva Hernández, university professor and cinematographic analysis researcher; Marta Pérez Adroher, psychoanalyst and Amalia Cáceres, philosopher and expert in comparative literature.
Facilitated and presented by Eva Hernández, university professor and film analysis researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Activity organized with the Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo and Acción Triángulo.
WEEK II: October 30th to November 5th
Casa de América
Sala Jorge Luis Borges
¡Plaza de Cibeles s/n
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
Tuesday, October 31st - 6:30 pm- Conversation with Ana Endara
Panamanian director Ana Endara will talk to us about her vision of cinema and her creative processes.
Welcome by a representative of Casa de América and the Co-director of the festival Carlota Álvarez Basso.
At the end of the activity, Ana Endara’s film “Reinas (Majesty)” will be screened, and a subsequent discussion with the director will take place.
Activity co-organized with Casa de América.
Fundación Casa de México en España
Calle Alberto Aguilera nº 20
Free entrance until capacity is completed
Tuesday, October 31st - 7:00 pm- Conversation with Tatiana Huezo
The Salvadoran/Mexican director of “El Eco (The Echo)” (2023) will tell us about her vision of cinema and her work.
Presentation by the Co-director of the festival Diego Mas Trelles.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos UNAM-España and the Fundación Casa de México en España.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Salón de Actos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
Paseo de Recoletos nº22
Admissions: free until full capacity is reached
Thursday November 2nd - 17:00h - Featured Writer at Biblioteca Nacional de España: “Ida Vitale”
To conmemorate and celebrate the century of Ida Vitale’s birth, Maria Arrillaga’s documentary film “Ida Vitale '' will be projected at the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
The act, dedicated to the poet Ida Vitale, will count with a streamed presentation of the autor, and first hand presentations by the director of the BNE, the Embassy of Uruguay, the General Director of the Book of the Ministerio de Cultura of Spain, the producer of the film Inés Vázquez and the co-directors of the festival.
After the film, a discussion will be celebrated with Inés Vázquez, producer of the documentary film.
Activity organized with the collaboration of the Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Embassy of Uruguay.
Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Calle de Fuencarral nº3
Free entrance with prior registration on the Espacio Fundación Telefónica website.
http://www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com
Thursday, November 2nd - 5:30 pm - “How did you get here? Case study with the international film directors participating in the festival”
Roundtable with the participation of female directors Ana Endara from Panama, author of “Reinas (Majesty)”; Ma'ayan Rypp, from Israel, author of “Ha Pilegesh (The Other Widow)”; Eva Beling, from Sweden, author of “Fördom och stolthet - En queer filmhistoria (Prejudice and pride)”; Sia Hermanides, from the Netherlands, author of “White Berry”, and Salvadoran/Mexican Tatiana Huezo, author of “El Eco (The Echo)”.
Facilitator: Elena Manrique, film producer and member of the festival's programming committee.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Centro Sefarad-Israel, El Al Israel Airlines, Embassy of the Netherlands, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of Sweden, Casa de América, Fundación Casa de México en España and DAMA, Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales.
Beatriz Navas
Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 - 7:30 pm- “Making films in times of conflict”.
Roundtable with the participation of German director Steffi Niederzoll, who will talk about her latest documentary film “Seven Winters in Tehran”; Kateryna Shevchenko, Director of the Ukrainian Film Week in Madrid, the afghan director Bahia Bencheikh El-Fegoun and the Afghan actress Shabnam Rahimi, protagonist of the Movistar + series “La Unidad: Kabul”.
Facilitator: Elena Manrique, film producer and member of the festival's programming committee.
Universidad Camilo José Cela
Salón de Actos de la Escuela de Posgrado de la Universidad Camilo José Cela
Calle Almagro nº 5
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
María Zamora
Thursday, November 2nd - 7:30 pm- Conversation with María Zamora
Conversation between María Zamora, producer of Elastica Films, and Piluca Baquero, Director of the Degree in Film and Audio-visual Fiction at the Camilo José Cela University.
Introduction by Piluca Baquero, Director of the Degree in Film and Audio-visual Fiction from the Camilo José Cela University.
Sala Berlanga de la Fundación SGAE
Calle de Andrés Mellado nº 53
Admission: 3,50€
Friday, November 3rd, 2023 - 6:30 pm- “Elfriede Jelinek - Language Unleashed”
After the screening of Claudia Müller's film, there will be a roundtable with the participation of Magda Puyó, director of the show “Viaje de invierno”, and Birgitte Jirku, professor of Literature in the German Language.
Presentation by Kristian Henk, Director of the Foro Cultural de Austria en Madrid, Magda Puyó, Birgitte Jirku and the co-directors of the festival Carlota Álvarez Basso and Diego Mas Trelles.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Foro Cultural de Austria en Madrid and the Teatro de la Abadía.
Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo
Calle Tribulete nº 20
Free entrance until capacity is completed.
https://cinematecapedrozerolo.com/
Saturday, November 4th, 2023 - 7:00 pm- “Women’s Memory and Sexuality under Franco”
After the screening of Cecilia Montagut's film, there will be a roundtable with the director and Raquel Osborne, honorary professor and specialist in gender and sexuality intersection.
Presentation by Linda D’Ambrosio Rosales, director of D’Ambrosio Producciones.
Patricia Ortega
Sunday, November 5th, 2023 - 7:00 p.m. - Yo imposible (Being impossible)
After the screening of the film there will be a discussion with its director Patricia Ortega.
Presentation by Axa Milá de la Roca, Communication Manager at Acción Triángulo.