To celebrate International Women´s Day on March 8th, the Ibero American Association of Cultural Attaches will open a Film Cycle with movies from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Portugal featuring female directors, roles and topics related to women in the movie industry of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
The cycle that will be available for free, from March 8th until March 19th will opened with a conversation between the Chilean director Maitee Alberdi and Colombian Filmmaker Famor Botero.
Alberdi and Botero will discuss women´s role in the industry and their challenges in Colombia and Chile using examples of their most recent films. Paola Rey, a Colombian actress who stars in Boteros’ picture Sofia, will be part of the conversation to talk about how her main role in the movie, representing a Colombian entrepreneur, finds her true self through a series of thought-provoking circumstances in a small town in Santander, Colombia.
Alberdi will be talking about her documentary film, The Mole Agent, that has been screened at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition and that was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. The Mole Agent a tender story of an 83-year-old man hired by a family to investigate the conditions of a retirement home where their grandmother has been recently put in. In the process, he becomes involved with the lives of some residents.
The Film Cycle is one of the most important events for the Ibero-American Cultural Attache Association that promotes culture from 12 countries in the western hemisphere, Spain and Portugal to the United States.
The event is done in collaboration with the Washington Diplomat and promoted by all the member countries.
To register to the opening event click here
Movies
Argentina: A Family Submerged
Directed by María Alché
2019, 91 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
Deep in the summer heat of Buenos Aires, Marcela is faced with the task of purging the
apartment of her recently deceased sister, all while being drawn into an illicit affair with a
younger man.
Colombia: Sofia
Directed by Famor Botero
2019, 90 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
After the death of her father, Sofía receives the news that her brother Fabio wants to sell the house where she and her three nephews live. In the struggle not to sell the house, Sofía
becomes hopeless when she finds out that a nephew is in prison for robbery, the other
teenage niece is pregnant and that the mother of the third niece, whom Sofía has raised
since she was born, wants to claim her. Amid the reproaches of her brothers who blame
Sofía for the mistakes of her nephews, Sofía tries to make her life with a love of many years.
Chile: The Mole Agent
Directed by Maite Alberdi
2020, 90 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home,
private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83 year-old man who becomes a new
resident–and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with
becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.
Guatemala: Capsules
Directed by Verónica Riedel
2012, 103 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
Full of intrigue, a kidnapping, the truth that will change everything. Fonsi is an apparently
privileged 12 year old boy. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, his world begins to
crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events, each character changes
drastically, facing a crude reality.
Mexico: Retreat
Directed by Daniela Alatorre
2019, 70 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
Retreat explores the bond between three generations of women as they struggle to assert
their independence in a paternalistic society. A story of familial love and courage that
celebrates female strength by quietly delving into its unexpected sites of concentration.
Peru: Daughters of Nantu
Directed by Willy Guevara
2018, 75 minutes
In Spanish & Awajún with English Subtitles
Daughters of Nantu has been filmed entirely in Awajun, a native language from the depths ofthe Peruvian Amazon. The film shows the history and mythology of the Awajun tribe which,according to legend, were given the gift of agriculture by Nantu, the Goddess Moon, throughthe women of the community, whom established a matriarchal society.
Portugal: Snu
Directed by Patrícia Sequeira
019, 94 minutes
In Portuguese with English Subtitles
The film revolves around the elegant, fearless Danish publisher Ebba Merete Seidenfaden,
who became known as Snu Abecassis, a woman who would challenge and confront
Salazar's dictatorship. After moving to Lisbon with her husband Vasco Abecassis in the
1960s, Snu devotes herself to building her new publishing house.
Spain: Maria (and Everybody Else)
Directed by Nely Reguera
2016, 90 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
A struggling writer afraid to let anyone read her first novel, María is at a crossroads. Her
father, with whom she still lives, is engaged to his nurse after a recent stint in the hospital.
Her brothers have successful careers and are in long-term relationships. After 20 years of
caring for her father and siblings following the death of her mother when she was 15, María
must look inward and re-evaluate her own life.
Uruguay: Las Toninas van al Este
Directed by Gonzalo Delgado & Verónica Parrota
2016, 83 minutes
In Spanish with English Subtitles
Miguel Angel Garcia Mazziotti, a Rio de la Plata's decadent showbiz gay figure, rejects a
visit from his estranged daughter, until he learns that she is pregnant.