2023. We present the the Parallel Sections program of the 6th edition in 14 collaborating venues

30 National and International films will be screened from October 25th to November 4th 

Less than two weeks before the start of the 6th edition of the Films by Women Madrid Festival, we advance the excellent program organized in collaboration with 14 leading cultural entities in the city, which make the Parallel Sections possible. A total of 30 titles will be featured, including fiction, documentaries, and animation, mostly awarded at festivals around the world. 

This program would not be possible without the invaluable support of the collaborating venues, detailed below, since they allow the programming and dissemination of the chosen titles. In addition, thanks to the Casa de América, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Embassy of Switzerland, Fundación Casa de México en España and the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos UNAM-España, the audience will be able to meet some of the directors and professionals invited to this edition, such as the film producer Inés Vázquez, or the directors Luzia Schmid and Tatiana Huezo. They all sum up to the 27 invited professionals that will participate in the Festival, in order to dialogue and share impressions with the attendees in the presentations or colloquiums.

Frame of Elfriede Jelinek, Language Unleashed by Claudia Müller, Nobel Literature Prize 2004

The Parallel Sections and venues are:
 

1. Pioneers’ sessions: Dorothy Davenport Monographic / Cine Doré - Filmoteca Española
2. Greta Gerwig Special/ Sala Equis
3. LGTBIQ+ selection/ Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo y Acción Triángulo
4. Featured creators / Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
5. German directors - Debut films / Goethe-Institut Madrid
6. French directors / Institut Français de Madrid 
7. Featured Writer: "A Life of Poetry. Ida Vitale" / Biblioteca Nacional de España
8. Agnès Varda / Cines Verdi 
9. Chinas / Sala Secuencia. DAMA 
10. 6th Contemporary Arab director / Casa Árabe 
11. Domingo, Domingo / La Morada de Malasaña 
12. Latin American director: Meeting with Ana Endara / Casa de América
13. Mexican directors / Fundación Casa de México en España
14. Special sessions / Sala Berlanga de la Fundación SGAE

Check out the full program below:

Pioneers' sessions: Dorothy Davenport Monographic
Cine Doré - Filmoteca Española

Calle Santa Isabel, nº3
Admission: 3€ (2€ for students)

Cine Doré - Filmoteca Española will host a monographic cycle of three films by American director Dorothy Davenport, whose work helped to pave the way for women in the film industry. Two of the feature films, silent, will be accompanied by live music by pianist Marcos Ortiz Casas.

Cycle carried out in collaboration of the Fundación Consejo España-EE. UU.

Friday October 27th - 5.30pm - Sala 1 
After the lecture “Una historia de Hollywood: Directoras estadounidenses en el Cine Mudo y españolas en la industria norteamericana (1920-1960)” (Hollywood History: American directors in silent cinema and Spanish women in the North American industry (1920-1960), given by Esperanza García Claver, the screening will take place: 

The Woman Condemned (La Mujer Condenada)
Dorothy Davenport (USA) 
Fiction, 66'
United States, 1934
Presentation by a representative of the Fundación Consejo España-EEUU and Carlota Álvarez Basso, co-director of the festival.  Saturday October 28th - 5.30pm - Sala 1
The Red Kimona (El kimono rojo)
Dorothy Davenport (USA) 
Fiction, 80'
USA, 1925
Silent, with piano accompaniment.
Presentation by Carlota Álvarez Basso, co-director of the festival.   Sunday October 29th - 5.30pm - Sala 1
Linda
Dorothy Davenport (USA) 
Fiction, 75'
USA, 1929
Silent, with piano accompaniment.
Presentation by Carlota Álvarez Basso, co-director of the festival. 

Greta Gerwig is one of the filmmakers of the year. Her latest film, Barbie, is the highest box-office film directed by a woman in history and has also turned the story of the most stereotypical doll on the planet into a feminist advocate. In this edition, 3 recent films from her filmography will be screened in a special program dedicated to the director.  Friday October 27th - 6.00pm
Barbie
Greta Gerwig (USA)
Fiction, 114'
USA, 2023 
Winner of the Hollywood Critics Award
Presentation by Eva Hernández and the directors of the festival. 

Subsequent colloquium with the audience and the guests Marta Pérez Adroher and Amalia Cáceres. 

With the collaboration of Acción Triángulo and the Fundación Pedro Zerolo.  Sunday October 29th - 5.00pm
Mujercitas (Little women)
Greta Gerwig (United States)
Fiction, 135'
USA, 2019 
Oscar for Best Costume Design and numerous awards from the American critics. Tuesday October 31st - 7.30pm
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig (United States)
Fiction, 135'
USA, 2019 
122 awards, including Golden Globes.

Within the framework of the festival, the Cinemateca Pedro Zerolo programs two films with LGTBIQ + themes.
Program in collaboration with Acción Triángulo and Fundación Pedro Zerolo. Saturday November 4th - 7.00pm
Memoria y sexualidad de las mujeres bajo el franquismo (Memory and sexuality of women under francoism)
Cecilia Montagut (Argentina) 
Documentary, 74'
Spain, 2019
Presentation by Linda D'Ambrosio Morales and subsequent colloquium with Raquel Osborne, expert in sociology, gender and sexuality, and director Cecilia Montagut.  Sunday November 5th - 7.00pm
Yo imposible (Being Impossible)
Patricia Ortega (Venezuela)
Fiction, 97’
Venezuela/Colombia, 2018
Awarded at the Lesgacinemad festival and at the Santo Domingo Out Fest.
Presentation by Axa Milà de la Roca and subsequent colloquium with the director Patricia Ortega.

One more year, the Museum joins the festival, programming a film about outstanding creators, lee Miller, Margaret Bourke-White and Martha Gellhorn, whose works changed the perception of war.  Friday October 27th - 6.30pm
Drei Frauen - ein Krieg (Trained to See – Three Women and the War)
Luzia Schmid (Switzerland)
Documentary, 106'
Germany/Italy, 2022
Premiere in Spain
Selected at IDFA, Hot Docs, Solothurn, Roma, Köln.
Presentation by Evelio Acevedo, Managing Director of the Museo Nacional-Thyssen Bornemisza, the director Luzia Schmid and the directors of the festival.
After the screening there will be a colloquium with the director and Diego Mas Trelles, co-director of the festival.
Activity organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland in Spain.

German directors - Debut films
Goethe-Institut Madrid

Ciclo monográfico dedicado a los primeros largometrajes de seis directoras alemanas:

Thursday October 26th - 7.00pm
The Case You
Alison Kuhn (Germany)
Documentary, 80'
Germany, 2020
Selected at IDFA and awarded at DoK.fest München and at the Max Ophuls festival.
Presentation by Ana Pérez from the Goethe-Institut Madrid and the co-directors of the festival. 

Thursday October 26th - 8.30pm
Nico
Eline Gehring (Germany)
Fiction, 79'
Germany, 2021
LGBTIQ+
Awarded at the Max Opüls Film Fest and in Biberach festival.
Presentation by Ana Pérez from the Goethe-Institut Madrid. Friday October 27th - 7.00pm

Home
Franka Potente (Germany)
Fiction, 100'
Germany, 2020
Selected at the San Francisco and Prague festivals
Presentation by Ana Pérez from the Goethe-Institut Madrid Monday October 30th - 7.00pm

Bilder (m)einer Mutter (Life on Tape)
Melanie Lischker (Germany)
Documentary, 78'
Germany, 2021
Best documentary at the Kitzbuehel festival.
Presentation by Ana Pérez from the Goethe-Institut Madrid.  Tuesday October 31st - 7.00pm

Le Prince
Lisa Bierwirth (Germany)
Fiction, 125'
Germany, 2021
Premiere in Spain
Selected in BAFICI, Karlovy Vary, winner of the German Critics Award.
Presentation by Ana Pérez from the Goethe-Institut Madrid.  Thursday November 2nd - 7.00pm

Mein Sohn (My Son)
Lena Stahl (Germany)
Fiction, 94'
Germany, 2021 
Premiere in Spain
Winner of the Young German Cinema Award at the Munich Film Festival.
Presentation by Ana Pérez del Goethe-Institut Madrid 

Monday October 30th - 8.00pm
Nous (We)
Alice Diop (France)
Documentary, 115'
France, 2021
Premiere in Madrid
Awarded at Berlinale, the Lumière Awards of France, and at Dokufest Kosovo; selected in Zagreb, Indie Lisbon. Friday November 3rd - 8.00pm
Atlantic Bar
Fanny Moulins (France)
Documentary, 77'
France, 2022
Premiere in Spain
Audience and Jury Award at the Champs Elysées Film Festival and selected at Acid Cannes

For the second consecutive year, the Biblioteca Nacional de España joins the festival with the screening of a feature film focused on the life of an outstanding writer. On the occasion of the centenary of her birth, this edition will be dedicated to the Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale.  Thursday November 2nd - 5.00pm
Ida Vitale
María Arrillaga (Uruguay) 
Documental, 81’
Uruguay, 2023
Premiere in Madrid
Ida Vitale Video presentation, and on-site presentations by the Director of the BNE, the Embassy of Uruguay, the General Director of the Book of the Ministry of Culture, the producer of the film Inés Vázquez and the co-directors of the festival.
Subsequent conversation with the producer of the film, Inés Vázquez.
Activity organized with the collaboration of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Embassy of Uruguay. 

Cines Verdi join the festival again, programming a film by one of the most important directors of French and International cinema: Agnès Varda.  Wednesday October 25th - 8.30pm
Varda por Agnès (Varda by Agnès)
Agnès Varda (Belgium) 
Documentary, 115'
France, 2019
Winner of Best Documentary about Women at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards and Audience Award at the Two Riversides Film and Art Festival.

Wednesday October 25th - 6.00pm
Chinas
Arantxa Echevarría
Fiction, 118'
Spain, 2023
Selected at San Sebastian
Presentation by the director Arantxa Echevarría, and the co-director of the festival Carlota Álvarez Basso.
Conversation with Arantxa Echevarría after the screening of the film.

Friday November 3rd - 7.00pm
L’homme qui a vendu sa peau (The man who sold his skin)
Kaouther Ben Hania (Túnez)
Fiction, 104'
France/Tunisia/Germany/Sweden/Belgium, 2020
Awarded at the Venice and El Gouna festivals, proposed to the Oscar 2021 by Tunisia. 
Presentation by the co-director of the festival, Carlota Álvarez Basso.

Double session: November 1st and Thursday November 2nd - 7.00pm
Domingo Domingo
Laura García Andreu (Spain) 
Documentary, 72'
Spain/Lithuania
Selected in Thessaloniki, DocsValencia, Atlántida FF, DocsMX, Sanfic Chile, Festivalito La Palma, Pálic Serbia.

Latin American Director: Encounter with Ana Endara
Casa de América - Sala Iberia Plaza de Cibeles, s/n
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Tickets will be distributed at the Information Point box office one hour before the activities.

Tuesday October 31st - 6.30pm
Reinas
Ana Endara (Panama)
Documentary, 65'
Panama, 2013
Grolsch Discovery Award at IFF Panama and Special Jury Mention at Icaro Festival Guatemala. Selected at BAFICI, Chicago Latino Fest. 
Welcome by a representative of Casa de América and the co-director of the festival Carlota Alvarez Basso. 
Talk with Ana Endara after the screening and colloquium with the audience.

Activity co-organized with Casa de América.  Thursday November 2nd - 7.00pm
Para su tranquilidad haga su propio museo (For your peace of mind make your own museum)
Pilar Moreno (Spain) and Ana Endara (Panama)
Documentary, 71'
Panama, 2021
Awarded at the Millenium Brussels, Costa Rica, Mumbai, Trieste and Guadalajara festivals; selected in DMZ Korea, Panama.
Presentation by the co-directors of the film and colloquium after the screening. Friday November 3rd - 6.30pm

Curundú
Ana Endara (Panama)
Documentary, 66'
Panama, 2007
Selected at DocumentaMadrid and at Biarritz, Lyon, Sao Paulo Festivals
Presentation by the director Ana Endara.
Program co-organized with the Casa de América.

3 films by Mexican female directors, programmed by the Fundación Casa de México en España, will be screened within the framework of the festival.  Thursday November 2nd - 7.00pm
Tótem
Lila Avilés (Mexico)
Fiction, 95'
Mexico/Denmark/France, 2023
Awarded in Berlinale, Jerusalem, Durban, Lima, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Selected in Chicago, Melbourne, Athens, Calgary, Morelia, San Sebastian.
Presentation by a representative of the Fundación Casa de México en España  Friday November 3rd - 7.00pm

Pedro
Liora Spilk Bialostozky (México) 
Documental, 76’
México, 2022
Estreno en España 
Seleccionado en los festivales de Málaga y de Morelia
Presentación a cargo de un representante de la Fundación Casa de México en España  Saturday November 4th - 6.00pm

El Eco (The Echo)
Tatiana Huezo (El Salvador-Mexico)
Documentary, 102'
Mexico, 2023
Winner of Best Director and Best Documentary at Berlinale, Best Documentary in Jerusalem; selected in the festivals of Hong Kong, Seattle, Chicago, Morelia, Vision du Reel, San Sebastian, among others. 

Presentation by the director Tatiana Huezo and a representative of the Casa de México Foundation in Spain. Subsequent colloquium with the director.

Activity organized in collaboration with the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos UNAM-España and the Fundación Casa de México en España. 

Special sessions at the Sala Berlanga
Sala Berlanga. Fundación SGAE

Andrés Mellado nº53
Admission: 3,50€

Friday November 3rd - 6.00pm
Elfriede Jelinek, Language Unleashed
Claudia Müller (Germany)
Documentary, 97'
Germany/Austria, 2022
Premiere in Madrid
German Film Award (Lola) for Best Documentary and Fipresci Award in Munich, selected in Biografilm.
Presentation by Kristian Henk, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Madrid, Magda Puyó, director of the play "Winter Journey", Brigitte Jirku, professor of German Language Literature and the co-directors of the festival.
Subsequent round table with Magda Puyó and Brigitte Jirku.
In collaboration with the Teatro de la Abadía and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Madrid.