“8M” by Vicky Calavia will be screened on September 22 in the closing session.
The Uesca Women’s Film Festival celebrates its 23rd edition from this Saturday, September 16, until Friday the 22nd. Once again, the Festival offers a complete proposal of fiction feature films, documentaries and short films with the purpose of showing Huesca viewers “stories with a different cinematographic perspective, projects that are often far from the most commercial channels in which their directors explore different themes, styles and narratives.”
Productions from the Spanish State dominate the programming of this edition, “which shows the growing diversity and female representation in the film industry of our country, backed by awards and selections in numerous national and international festivals,” points out the Oscense Pan y Rosas Association. , which has been the organizer of the Exhibition since this year.
This is the case of “The good companies”, winner of the Young Jury Prize at the Malaga Festival or the Audience Prize at the Donostia Film and Human Rights Festival, by director Silvia Munt; or the feature film “Creatura”, the second work of director Elena Martín, which recently received the Best European Film Award at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival. This film, in addition to the short film “8M”, by Vicky Calavia, which makes history about the celebration of Women’s Day, will be screened at the closing session.
Yasmina Praderas from Huesca, first Pan y Rosas Prize
Yasmina Praderas | Photo: Ana Puit
The 23rd edition will begin with the presentation of the first Pan y Rosas Award in the opening session, an honorary award given to Yasmina Praderas from Huesca for “her consolidated career as a sound mixer in more than thirty feature films under the orders of renowned directors and directors”, which have earned her several awards, among which the Goya for Best Sound 2022 stands out for her participation in the film “As bestas”, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen. With the Pan y Rosas Award, the Exhibition wants to highlight the value of technical disciplines in the audiovisual world that, in general, enjoy less visibility. The opening session will feature a performance by the Arcadia choir and the collaboration of Aragón TV. After the award ceremony, “Los Buenos Modales” will be screened, the second feature film by director Marta Díaz de Lope, in which Yasmina Praderas has participated as sound mixer.
The award, the work of Huesca artist David Rodríguez Gimeno, who has developed his career around the reconstruction of image, experience and memory, “proposes a relationship between cinema and its effect on experience and reality; it emphasizes in the emotional and experiential aspect, and how this transforms, moves the viewer’s interior,” they explain from Pan y Rosas. The installation consists of a screen, a sound system and a rotating square, like a previous stage that links to the representation space of the viewer.
The best short film
In its 23rd edition, they could not miss their appointment with the state short film. Since its creation, the Exhibition has belonged to Trama, the Coordinator of Film, Video and Multimedia Festivals and Exhibitions made by women, and is committed to screening the annual winners of the Women’s Shorts contest, like the rest of the exhibitions that make up the coordinator. .
In this edition you can see the short documentary films “Hondarrak”, by Paula Iglesias and Marta Gómez, and “Anatomía de unha serea”, by Adriana Páramo; and the fiction short films “Alegre y olé”, by Clara Santaolaya, “Harta”, by Júlia de Paz, and “La Loca y el Feminista”, by Sandra Gallego. In this session, which will take place on Sunday the 17th at 5:00 p.m., the audience will also have the opportunity to see five short films directed by students from the different degrees offered by the Uesca School of Art. Their directors will be present at the Olimpia Theater, as well as the screenwriters Núria Dunjó and Pilar Gómez of two Shorts in Femenino, with the dual purpose of the Exhibition to “give visibility to other disciplines within the audiovisual field and to support emerging professionals “.
A committed sample
The poster for the 23rd Uesca Women’s Film Festival, the work of Huesca illustrator Marta Alonso.
As in other editions, the Exhibition has the collaboration of several entities that “enrich the screenings with their know-how and their discussions and presentations.” Thanks to the French Institute, on Monday the 18th we will be able to see the documentary “Bigger than Us”, by Flore Vasseur, which shows the impact of the work of several young environmental and human rights activists who refuse to accept the planet that we are bequeathing to them. Several young activists from Huesca will participate in the subsequent discussion.
Also thanks to the French Institute, on Tuesday the 19th, the animated feature film “The Crossing”, by Florence Miailhe, awarded at the prestigious Annecy Festival, will be screened. A film about exile, persecution and war, with a subsequent discussion by Bienvenidxs Regugiadxs Uesca.
On Wednesday it will be the turn of the Alouda association, who will direct the presentation and discussion after the documentary “Insumisas: Women in the struggle in Western Sahara”, directed by Laura Dauden and Miguel Ángel Herrera, who will be present at the screening, and in collaboration with Hegoa: Institute of Development Studies and International Cooperation of the Basque Country. The documentary allows us to learn about the violence exercised by Morocco on the Sahara and the position on the front line of resistance of Sahrawi women.
On Thursday the 21st, in collaboration with the coordinator Cadis, we will watch the documentary “Yoghurt Utopia”, by Anna Thomson and David Baksh, about the inspiring idea of a psychologist named Christopher Columbus and his yogurt company that employs hundreds of people with mental illnesses. , with subsequent discussion. All these screenings will take place in the Provincial Council’s assembly hall at 7:00 p.m.
On Saturday the 16th at 10:00 p.m., the Moroccan feature film “The Blue Caftan” will be screened, by director Maryam Touzani, which won the Best Actress Award at Seminci 2022 and numerous nominations at other festivals. The director has shot a delicate film about fears, secrets and love in her different conceptions.
A day of cinema: audiovisual literacy program
After a few years of hiatus due to the pandemic, the Exhibition resumes its collaboration with the audiovisual literacy program A Day of Cinema. Students from various Uesca institutes will have the opportunity to enjoy the animated film “The Crossing” and use “the screen as a blackboard”, as the motto of this program says, which will be held on Friday the 22nd at 11:00 at the Teatro Olimpia.
An exhibition that reaches more spaces
In addition to the screenings at the Teatro Olimpia, on Saturday the 16th, Sunday the 17th and the closing on Friday the 22nd, and the rest of the week in the assembly hall of the Provincial Council, the Exhibition extends its programming to other spaces. Thus, on Sunday the 17th at 12:00, several short films related to the theme ‘Woman and Landscape’ will be screened at the CDAN. On Monday, September 18, Yasmina Praderas, the first Pan y Rosas Prize winner, will give a masterclass to the students of the Higher Degree in Sound Technician at the IES Ramón y Cajal.
On Thursday the 21st, at the Uesca Art School, the film “The crossing”, by Florence Miailhe, especially interesting for the students of this school due to its elaborate animation technique. Also on Thursday we can enjoy a Movie Dinner, a marriage between Italian gastronomy and the documentary by Zaragoza director Vicky Calavia “Elvira de Hidalgo: Giving Divinity” thanks to the collaboration of the El Alambique restaurant. With this work, the multi-award-winning Vicky Calavia rescues the figure of an operatic diva only recognized in her role as teacher of Maria Callas. Finally, this year they will take the Women’s Shorts to different residences and care centers for the elderly in the city with the intention of “bringing them as close as possible to the cinematographic experience.”
The Uesca Women’s Film Festival, organized by the Oscense Pan y Rosas Association, is sponsored by the Aragonese Women’s Institute, the Uesca Provincial Council and the City Council.
The 23rd edition of the Show arrives soon with a great selection of films made by women with fiction feature films, documentaries and current short films, and more surprises.
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